WRITING with Peter Thomas - "Locate yourself within your text"
On Wednesday evening after a long day at work I sat myself down at my Laptop at 9pm to start our online discussion group. Needless to say I was feeling tired, and truthfully not 100% motivated...but what a great hour it turned out to be! I have made a summary of the main points that stood out to me in our hour session, mainly to do with the structure of your essay. We first started talking about: Academic writing VS Analytical writing Firstly looking at academic writing : so you need to first establish, what are the conventions used in academic writing? Below you will find a diagram explaining how one can structure an academic essay. Hopefully it is clear enough...(it wasn't til later that I was savvy enough to take a photo of the screen - silly me!) I found this really helpful and wish I'd used this in Module 1 to give me a base to my structure. Especially when working under a relatively strict word count and you need to be selective; the condensed version of having your th...