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Academic writing workshop student quotes (PG Cert 2011/12 Sem B)
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Writing WORKSHOP
Writing is easy – you just stare at a blank piece of paper till your eyeballs bleed!
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Writing WORKSHOP
• Writing activity• Reflecting on the activity• What we can do ...• Next steps• Useful resources
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Writing Activity
Free writingEach person should have in front of them: • Two sheets of paper: • One, ‘Writing’ - blank, to write upon, • Two, ‘Commentary’ - to note reasons for not
writing • Pens or pencils
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The Activity
• When asked, turn to your ‘Writing’ page and write for five minutes without pause on the question on the next slide.
• If you stop writing for any reason, write that reason, no matter how trivial or insignificant on the ‘Commentary’ sheet.
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Now for five minutes write on:
What I like about my own academic writing practices
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Reflection (1) Why did you STOP writing?
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1) Some reasons for stopping:
• Thinking• Searching for a word, spelling, tense• Uncomfortable• Distracted• Couldn’t see the point• Don’t know enough yet
• What are you going to do about this?
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Some solutions …
• Get into a good physical & mental space: Be comfortable – your way Accept the task – or fake it!• Brainstorm & plan before you write• Once you start – go with the flow• Don’t stop!• Free write: Do not search for the right word – re-
draft and improve later• Leave gaps – read more after writing.
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Reflection (2)
• What do you like about your own academic writing practices?
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What other staff have said
• I discover what I’m thinking• I puzzle out my ideas• It’s an exploration• It’s exciting• I am concise and effective• I try to be helpful and useful• It’s teasing out my thinking• I never quite know where it’s going• I’m incredibly organised…
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What students have said:
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I am still not sure if my work is considered academic, I still don’t know what makes one of my essays better than another.
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I never look at the feedback – I just check the grade… if it’s good I’m happy – if it’s bad (I sulk) …
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Academic language, the kind of language that doesn’t readily flow off my tongue: the type of language I rarely use when speaking to my peers. The type of language that I don’t readily understand and the type of language that means spending hours at a computer turning something quite simple into something that sounds moderately impressive with elitist results.
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Can we change that?
Can we set up safe, creative spaces for student writing?
Things to think about:• We treat writing differently… If it were sport
or driving or cooking...• Process not product• Craft not perfect• Practise, practise, practise…
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Perhaps it is not that we/they cannot write
We all need to:• ‘Write to learn’• Write little and often• Half hour a day...• Write first... • Censor later
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Free Writing• Peter Elbow (1998) argues that free-writing
encourages us to write at length without fear of censorship and:
• Frees us to explore a topic• Encourages understanding• Focusses on the writing...• Spelling & grammar (3 min): http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlL5W2qA0EA
• On writing (9min):• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDUn1c4uxUE
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NEXT STEPS…Make class time for students to:•Write little and often•Summarise an argument•Explain a concept•Apply a theory •Start the assignment•Keep a learning journal...•Write for half an hour every day...
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What Tips do you give?
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Critical thinking questions
• What, why, when, where, who, how
• What if, so what, what next…
• http://learnhigher.ac.uk/Students/Critical-thinking-and-reflection.html
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Essay structure
• ‘Body’: 80% - answers Q in chain of paragraphs: draft & re-draft – use the questions…
• Introduction: 7% - says how you will answer the Q – write last.
• Conclusion – 13% - proves you have answered the whole Q.
• Bibliography – shows the reading you did to answer the Q.
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Paragraph as dialogue
• What is this paragraph about?• What exactly is that? (Define)• Tell me more…• What is the evidence & what does it
mean?• So what? (How does this link back to the
Q?)
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Writing …• Organise your DESK:• http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/learnhigher/desk/desk.html • Check out these writing resources:• http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/connorj/WritingGroups/ • Essay writing animation – Portsmouth:• http://ondemand.port.ac.uk/central/One_way_to_write_an_essay.wmv
• EXCELLENT site for linking phrases and for WRITING: http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/
• Essay/report quiz:http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/LMBS/study/reports_essays/
• Our Preventing Plagiarism course (also in WebLearn):• http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/learnhigher/Plagiarism/