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Dear All,  T his post explains to you how to make references to the resources, such as journal articles, books, websites and more in your writing. As you know and as we discussed today during the class, there are 2 kinds of references you should provide in your writing.  The first kind of references is made in the text you are composing, and thus they are called in-text. They include the following information: The author's or authors' last name(s) followed by t he page number(s ): e.g., In his book "Crafting critical writing", the author Troy Hicks discusses different features of writing across media and genres (Troy, 4) In the end of your work, you should have a full list of references that has information about all the resources you have used in your work. It is  alphabetical and must contain the following  details:   T he author's name or authors' last name(s), year of publication, NAME of the journal/book/website,...

Dear All, today you are going to start working on the draft of your new essay. There are 2 resources I shared with you earlier during the semester: 25 Creative Prompts:  https://patch.com/pennsylvania/peters/25-creative-college-essay-prompts 100 Inspirational Essay Topics:  https://myassignmenthelp.com/blog/response-essay-topics/  It lists a large number of interesting essay prompts. Look through these resources quickly, choose a topic you are interested in discussing. Then do the following: 1. In the thread of your blog explain why this topic seems interesting to you and what you hope to discover by writing on it. 2. Decide what arguments you will discuss 2. Decide what supporting evidence you need to make your essay persuasive: - statistics - opinions taken from the discussion of this topic with your peers and/or family members -your own experience -smth else 3. Decide what type of essay you are going to write: For-and-Against Opinion ...

Dear All, I am sorry I wrote a very detailed post with a lot of information you need to remember to write more confidently and with a better understanding of what you should pay attention to. Unfortunately, though, it disappeared when I started publishing it. No idea why it happened because I was doing it on my laptop and the connection was good. So, here is what I was able to restore: Patterns of organization: can help you revise the main patterns of essay organisation https://www.thoughtco.com/essay-organization-patterns-1857330 Here is a helpful resource with information about the things to remember when writing different types of essays: https://www.bestcustomwriting.com/blog/types-of-academic-writing   Also, here is a reminder about the essay organization patterns: Patterns of organization More about writing an Opinion essay: Opinion Essay More about an Argumentative essay: Argumentative Essay Things to Remember... (to be continued) Content ...

Dear All, I'd like to share with you two resources, which both list a variety of engaging (I hope) topics for discusion and expressing your opinions about them in your works. What I am inviting you to do is look through them and choose 4-5 you personally will be interested in discussing. Here you are: 25 Creative Prompts:  https://patch.com/pennsylvania/peters/25-creative-college-essay-prompts 100 Inspirational Essay Topics:  https://myassignmenthelp.com/blog/response-essay-topics/ In the thread below let us know what you have chosen and possibly explain what made you interested in these topics. Also, later today I'll share with you a list of topics covering the writing theory, which I'de like you to look through and list the ones you think you'd like to learn more about or revise. After you have chosen the topics do the following: 1. Think of the arguments 2. Collect the resources to support your arguments 3. Decide how to organize it: --what type ...

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...