'Workshop on Academic Writing ' 2019 #Department_of_ENGLISH #MKBU

A Bunch of question is arouse in my mind is, what to do   ? How to improve and how to update our quality of writing? While some ideas was in my mind but how to apply ? what is apply? What to avoid ? and how to solve this type of Que we might have facing the same problems …

Time and again we have some opportunities to   resolve this type of errors   which   can be rotten / rather to say that frees our new thoughts . so, for  that time and again we had gain some opportunities to enlarge ourselves .

Department of English , MKBU had organized  2  days workshop – academic writing . where Ndoricimpa Clement  ( A resource person ) discussed about  How to write an argumentative type answer .? In that he stressed on:

The expectations of assessors in writing essay can be summarized as follows:

ü Students are required to be explicit about the organization of the text (rhetorical structure of the essay)

ü Students are expected to use language to present not only a coherent text. But also an analytical and reasoned argument.

Here, he also discussed some of the elements which have to follow by the  learners in the academic writing .. It can be answer-books , it can be assignments , presentations, blogs, etc…..

Rhetoric structure of an essay

Linguistic resources for the creation of a coherent text 1…Cohesive devices

-grammatical cohesion

Referance

Substitution

Conjunction

- lexical cohesion

Reiteration

Synonymy

Antonymy

Hyponymy/superordinate

Meronymy

2… thematic structure

Theme

Rheme  

Types of themes

3… linguistic resources for the development of an analytical and reasoned argument..

Attitude markers

Affect

Judgement

Appreciation

Engagement resources

Expanding resources

Contracting resources  

This are some points which he throws some light on it ….

 it was quite informative session to attend.  Thanks to Dr Dilip Barad Sir for arranging these kinds of session. 

TO BE EDITED ......