"You need to structure your writing clearly, to allow your ideas to shine"

 

Great Workshop today with Peter! I feel like I need reminding about this at least once a week, It was really useful! Peter gave us a tip to look up "Writing for University", I can highly recommend it. I have not had chance yet to go into depth and read the whole thing but here is an exert for everyone that I will most definitely be printing out in big to keep me on track!

The exact way you structure your writing will depend on your particular writing context (a lab report will have a different structure to a discursive essay); however, most written pieces will need the basic structure outlined here. 

((I had to do a quick Google...

**** What is discursive essay?
Discursive essay is another kind of academic papers, which is used to check the students' skills and knowledge. Its main particularity is the aim to provoke discussion on the call-off topic. As a result the author joins the conversation about any situation, even, issue, or problem. ****))
INTRODUCTION – say what you are going to do Interpret the issue and say why is it important. Interpret and define key terms. Say how you will answer the issue/question and the order in which you will do so. 

BODY – do what you said you would do Start to explore the issue. Continue to explore and develop the issue. Push further and identify extra dimensions and distinctions within the issue. Move on to clarify what you feel is at the heart of the position you have arrived at. 

CONCLUSION – say what you have done Bring things together by summarising what you have said and clarifying the position you have

With an essay looming, my greatest fear is that I cannot get all my thoughts/ideas/lists/brainstorms down coherently. I hope today's exercise of Free writing will help me. It felt great to do that. I'm intrigued as to what the outcome will be!? But first of all I need to go deeper into my research. So far I have only lightly brushed the surface. Maybe some of you have got some point of interest that are worth looking into for me?

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Module 1 reflection and looking even further back in History to unravel 'Ethics'

Image
Reflecting on Module 1, I have taken it upon myself to delve deeper into Ethics. I feel I only touched the surface previously and need to make a concerted effort to understand the topic better and what implications this has on my practice. (And how it will play a role in my later inquiry). To do this I feel I need to go back to the roots, literally.  I have centered my first part of reading and research process in 'Theatre & Ethics'. A study that moves through History taking an academic approach to the works of Playwrights and their subjects. What has shaped the ethics of the time, and how the ethics of that time shaped the play. I think it already sounds interesting! But there's a lot to take in and analyse. For anyone else who struggled applying the ethical considerations to their Module 1 reflection, I can recommend this as a bit of extra reading.    Here I have added a picture of the city of Hamburg , my former home. This was after the horrific air raids of WW2 Th...
Read more

Not educational, just a bit of self discovery while working on Module 1

Image
 I suffer massive discomfort at the thought of conflict in and out of work. I think that the route of my problem is ultimately the fear that what I am/have done is not good enough. So I avoid discussions/arguments of getting onto a certain subject as I don't want to have to defend myself. I fear my argument is too weak and that whatever I have produced will not be to the liking of whoever it is that is judging it. So sometimes I don't say anything and try to distance myself. Of course this is actually exacerbating the problem to me (maybe unknown to the "judge"), so not only now am I dealing with the feeling of my product is soon to come under attack, but also that I am not being true. It may well be that my product is fine, but I automatically push myself into expecting the worst. Why do I have such low self-esteem?  I wasn't always this way. I was never one to be in the spotlight (apart from when I was physically on stage) and shout out me, me, I can! But I alwa...
Read more

Always considering the planet? (Not related to todays discussion group, just a though I had throughout writing)

Image
 With all the talk about the digital world in Module 1 I found myself wondering: how our digital carbon footprint impacts the environment? This is a tricky one and I could have devoted days, months and years to in depth research. However time is against me so I read as much as I could in a short space of time and came up with the following thoughts : Digitalisation is heavy on energy and is resource intensive. It comes with a gob smacking carbon footprint. A study from the Shift Project found that our use of digital technologies now actually cause more Co2 emissions than the entire aviation industry! (According to the experts the share of the global Co2 emissions from 2013-2018 increased from 2.5% to 3.7%) I find this staggering, even though we can't see it, can it really be ignored? Without decisive political action the digital revolution is set to increase our consumption of resources and energy and accelerate the damage we are doing to our planet and our climate. But this has to...
Read more