Posts Tagged paragraphs
January 24
A Fine Meal
Imagine that you’re hungry. Really hungry, not just a little peckish. Someone hands you a piece of bread; you eat it, and you’re no longer hungry but you’re not really full. You wouldn’t use the word satisfied to describe your state of hunger at this moment. Imagine that you’re really hungry – again – and [...]
December 28
Royal Fireworks Press on YouTube
After watching for almost an hour, I have decided this YouTube channel presents several worthy points for consideration. These videos are taken from lectures for teachers; I think it’s equally important that students understand why formal writing is necessary for their education. Royal Fireworks Press is a publishing company which focuses on books for teaching [...]
November 09
Non-Formulaic Linking
Linking is one of those impossible-to-explain-and-more-impossible-to-understand things. I see a lot of papers with red scrawls beside the beginning of each paragraph saying “Link!” My students often have no idea what the teacher or professor means. Draw chains? Linking is connecting one thought to another. In formal writing, linking must be done smoothly, so the [...]
November 02
Academic Writing Module
An Academic Writing Module: Paragraphs A neat little website from New Zealand for those who have forgotten the nitty-gritties of writing a paragraph. It’s a set of exercises which help you identify the parts of an essay based on the language. You can identify topic sentences and paragraphs, arrange a group of sentences to form [...]
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