Notes:
This presentation includes some more basic concepts such as what paragraphs are etc along with some more involved analysis of essays. It may be work going through and freezing some slides depending on your target audience.
Before starting the presentation ask students up to smartboard to do a jigsaw
https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=12f9d835076a
Log-in bl…………
PW Lr………….*
As students if they think objectives have been met.
Introduce process and content words
Elicit process and content words and reveal
Explain importance of both identifying and understanding the meaning of a process word.
Elicit process words and their meanings
Elicit process words and their meanings
Elicit what students define as paragraph as then show definition.
Explain importance of paragraphs in terms of structure and readability
Introduce PEEL
Introduce PEEL. Graphic is a link to website. Ask for volunteers or get class to decide order as group. Explain why answer is correct/incorrect.
Get students to write a short PEEL paragraph using this question.
Get students to read out their P, E, E, or L and ask students if the agree.
Click through the three burger pictures and ask which one is better – them emphasise the structure of the last picture – neat, layered with no repetition.
Explain the structure of an essay in terms of introduction, body and conclusion.
Its OK to leave the introduction and conclusion till last when writing.
Why are you asked to write essays? Get responses
This outliner will help plan an essay and enable each paragraph to be through out before writing begins.
Will be a download from website
More detail about the introduction and main body
More information about the conclusion.
Academic Hedging shows that you understand that your findings are not definitive. Eg “These results seem to support the opinion that 16 year olds are less interested in studying than watching TV” is better than “These results show that 16 year olds are less interested in studying than watching TV”.
Importance of editing
Writing styles – 4 main types
Why are you asked to write essays? Get responses
Why are you asked to write essays? Get responses
Why are you asked to write essays? Get responses
Why are you asked to write essays? Get responses
Explain the importance of being critical and anylitical.
As students if they think objectives have been met.
