Thank you for all of your essays. I will read through them this week-end and get them back to you with a grade and comments.
Today we are going to look at the five key words for writing which we talked about last time.
The words were:
organization (planning)
structure (paragraphing/ linking etc.)
style (narrative/descriptive/range)
clarity (accuracy)
register (formal/informal/ neutral)
A great resource to use for all of these points is
www.engvid.com
Here is an example to do with the introduction to a piece of writing:
http://www.engvid.com/effective-essay-introduction/
After discussing these areas it will be your opportunity to work in the text book.
I would like you to choose a text from one of the following three sections:
The Brighter side of life (p. 63 and onwards)
Drugs (p. 103 and onwards)
Poetry (you might analyze a poem http://www.wikihow.com/Analyze-Poetry or
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/american-poets-of-the-20th-century/how-to-analyze-poetry )
The text book contains a lot of exercises you can use to improve your English.
On Monday we will look more specifically at register and especially when to use more formal English.
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