Instituto Superior Del Milagro-Profesorado de Subject: Análisis Del Discurso Teacher: Noelia Sanchez Course: 4 Year Topic: Academic Writing

Instituto Superior del Milagro-Profesorado de
Subject: Análisis del discurso

Teacher: Noelia Sanchez
Course: 4th year
Topic: Academic writing.
ACTIVITY N° 1:
1. Your answers to these questions are very useful for me in order to know
your previous knowledge about writing. Therefore, do your best in order
to write complete, clear and honest answers and upload them in a Word
document, including your name, course and subject
1. What do you understand by academic writing?
I think It is a formal writing which is wrote by professionals so as to
create an argumentation of a specific topic related to a scientific or
educational report. It consists in a set of rules to make a coherent
composition. These rules can be for instance to use a formal
language, follow a layout, write in a logical order of grammatical
structures, check the written work.
2. Which are the parts of a paragraph? Enumerate them.
A paragraph is divided into the following three parts:
Introduction: It should be attract the attention of the readers.
Because It presents facts or reasons that explain a specific aspect of
the topic.
Main body: It consists on the development of the topic because of
examples, arguments or other information in order to deal with all the
main points of the topic.
Conclusion: It is the final sentence of the main idea. It expresses a
connection between the next paragraph.
3. Why is the topic sentence important in a paragraph?
Because it presents and also summarize the main topic of the
paragraph. That sentence is the argument. In all the paragraph, there
can be reasons to justify it.
4. Which are the parts of an essay? Enumerate them.
5. Which types of essays do you know? (e.g. narrative)
I remember two types of essays. One of them is for and against
essay which presents advantages and disadvantages about a specific
topic by making an argument for and against. The second is an
opinion essay which presents your personal opinion supported by
justifications about a specific topic. There are reasons and examples
that justify my view.
6. Which steps do you follow when you write? Mention and explain them
briefly.
I write down some ideas, appropriate vocabulary, phrases,
connectors and group them, put them into a logical order.
Firstly, I write short, clear sentences. I need to use a variety of
adjectives, adverbs and linking words. Therefore, I try to use different
ways to say something and use formal language.
7. Which pre-writing strategies do you remember?
8. Which ones do you normally use?
9. Which linking words do you remember?
Linking words can be used to:
Show time: before, after, as soon as. Still, yet, when, while, during.
Show contrast: in spite of, despite, in spite of the fact that, despite of
the fact that, although, even though, however.
Express result or effect: Therefore, so, thus, in consequence
Express reason or cause: this is why, since, as, because, because of,
due to, owing to, due to the fact that, owing to the fact that, for this
reason.
Add information:also, as well, too, and, in addition to, besides that,
furthermore.
Give examples: such as, additionally, in fact, specifically, specially.
Summarize: to sum up, in summary, in brief.
Express purpose: to, in order to, so as to, in order that, so that.
10. Write a brief paragraph about one of the following topics (200 words)
 A turning point in your life

 Your most embarrassing situation
 An important experience that you had and you will never forget
My new role
Planification is now my deary thing. It all began when I planned my

first class. During that time, I have taken not only many classes but
also I have seen many books and websites pages. It´s better to have
lots of resources to read, watch and listen to together in such short
time. Everyone has the same technology and trusts it every time
more.
The first thing was inspired by me was language functions. Because

they made sense of each activity such as expressing everyday
feelings or likes, describing places, retelling past events, reviewing. I
enjoyed rewriting my lessons because of my determination of
attending to the details. In addition to this, I was also filled and
motivated when I took my time on my lesson focus on creating
resources to present and practice every topic for all students. I will
always remember when I showed my doll and introduced the body
parts and all my students listened, danced and recognized them. For
these reasons, I knew I am passionate about teaching.
In fact, first of all, the teacher job involves writing plans but, apart
from that, teaching also offers me a lot of variety. There are sets of
students with varying experiences, and ideas. As a teacher, I can
incorporate new topics and design new lessons to live up the
classroom. Moreover, I will be a role model for them and I will be so
pleased to be.
ACTIVITY N° 2:
1) Read carefully the text about ACADEMIC WRITING.
2) Underline or highlight the key words and phrases that you find
and make a summary of the most important information.
What is academic writing?
It is a type of writing that presents an idea in a formal order
according to a organized and structured set of rules and
practices that it should follow supported by author citations un a
specific field.
It deals with underlained theories and causes as well as
exploring alternativas explanations. It follows a particular tone
which indicates the choice of words and phrasing. It is objective,
concise and formal.
Although academic writing have focused on abstract ideas and
concepts, dime academic topics can have a material structure,
concrete and physically oriented words to explain the abstract
ideas.

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Planification is now my deary thing. It all began when I planned my

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