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Dear All, I wrote a new post in my blog which I'm planning to add to as the semesmter progresses and focus on some typical language and grammar mistakes I spot in your writing. 1. Types of Academic Writing: https://www.bestcustomwriting.com/blog/types-of-academic-writing   2. Things to Remember:  a) To talk to vs To talk with Here is a link to a post on Grammarly, a very informative and useful resource to use to check some of the grammar and vocabulary questions you might have: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/talk-to-vs-talk-with/ In essence you should use "to talk to" when a conversation is one-sided, while "to talk with" is used when  both people participating in some conversation equally contribute to the discussion  

Dear All, I am sure you would find the discussion of the Body Language interesting and the activities you are going to do today useful and informative. here are things for you to do: 1.  Ask and answer the following questions: A. What's body language B. What and how we can communicate without words? Specific Examples are necessary! C. Which of these things do you think has the most impact on the how you communicate? Words Tone of voice Gesture Facial Expression The way we sit or stand D. How conscious are you of your own body language E. Do you think men or women are more conscious of body language? Why? F. Do you think you are able to read other people's body language? Reading task: look at the infographic at: https://tinyurl.com/grmsxhd and try to answer these questions: 1. What do these statistics  refer to? 11% 7% 2. Here is a piece of infographic that depicts some information about various aspects of the body language: https://i....

Dear All, Welcome to the second semester of the Academic Writing course! I hope you had a good semester break and are ready to continue mastering your writing skills. Today we're going to discuss what students' life around the world is like and then create a guide for the students from other parts of the world coming to study at our university. It'd be great if as part of this task you could interview a student from another department about what his/her life at the university is like and what kind of experiences s/he has had, both good and not quite. In the end I'm hoping that we'll be able to create this guide that your peers will be able to use to make their life easier. In the thread below please share a summary of your discussion of the qus in Ex 1 Also, here is a link to the University of East Anglia students' guidebook: https://portal.uea.ac.uk/documents/6207125/8540534/University+Student+Handbook+for+Taught+Programmes You should look thro...

Dear All, I’d like to share with you a summary writing template, a special fill-in form that will help you to write article summaries in a more consistent & structured way. This is one of the skills you should develop in the course of Academic Writing you are now taking. These skills are quite important for you to master for your academic success because preparing a good summary is a way to explain better the essence of smth you have read. The article “Title” written by NAME OF THE AUTHOR is devoted to the discussion of the problem (s) SPECIFY the PROBLEM (S) + add a quick reference to the article . First, the author draws our attention to ______________. Then s/he analyses the ___________. S/he gives an example of ______________. S/he also emphasizes that _____________. Further, the auhor suggests ________. In addition, ____________. Finally, __________. / The author concludes that _________. / In the end it is stated that ___________. For this task you need to...

Dear All, to complete this semester you need to be ready with the following tasks: 1.  A summary  of an article with an explanation of why you have chosen it and a set of 3 questions to go with it: a) What would you like to learn from it? b) What information from it you knew? c) What information is /was not clear Please,  choose an article that discusses some urgent/vital/very important/urgent/up-to-date  issue Word limit:  300 words 2.  A for-and-against essay :  400-450 words Choose different topics for tasks 1 & 2 3.  A reflection note  about the activities you have been offered this semester:  you should comment on the activities you did this semester which should include the following details: a) smth that you found useful b) smth that was not that useful c) smth that you would like to do the next semester d) suggest a couple of topics for discussion Word limit:   220-250 wo...

Dear All, I'd like you to practise using the Citation Machine ( http://www.citationmachine.net/ ), a special tool that can help you to create in-text and end-of the documents references correctly. I'd like to ask you to use it and share the reference to the on-line resource you are going to use to write the essay in the thread

Dear all, Today we'll revise 3 common discursive essay types For and Against, Opinion and Solution to Problems, clarify similarities and differences between them and discuss a number of different essay topics to identify their types. Then you'll have a chance to discuss your ideas and supporting evidence &  start drafting it.