Task-6: Possible essay topics

Dear All,

I'd like you to look through the list of possible topics you might be interested to write about, choose 4 or 5, explain why you are interested in writing on them, and then choose one and start developing your essay draft by listing the points you want to discuss in your essay and the supporting evidence you think you can use to support your points

1. Good research paper topics:

https://blog.prepscholar.com/good-research-paper-topics

2. 

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Post-5: Your favourite resource for learning English

Dear All,

Today I'd like you to share with your peers and me the information about your favorite learning English resource. You need to describe it briefly enumerating its general features first and then providing us with some more specific details.

1. Resource name with a link
2. Its general description
3. Description of its specific features
4. Your favourite features: mention several and add some examples
5. Explain why this resource can be useful for your peers and how they can benefit from using it.

On the technical side, remember to provide the links to the resources/sections of the website you are describing. This is how you can do it:

1. Click on the icon Link above
2. A new window will open1. Click on the icon Link above
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Post-4: Writing assessment criteria

Dear All,

I'd like to share with you the criteria I'm going to use to assess your works. They are as follows:

Next time we'll read sample essays that received one of these grades so that you would have a better idea of what to pay more attention to when writing your works.

Here is a link to sample candidate responses with examiner comments: http://bit.ly/32GTWS6. We'd read them in class together so that you'll get a better idea about what to pay attention to when  writing your works

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Task-3: Room 101

Have you read George Orwell's novel "1984"? Do you remember what Room 101 in it was for?

What I am inviting you to do today is to discuss what you would put into this room and explain why.

You can work on your own or together with one of your peers. After you have come up with the explanation of your choice, write a post explaining it and don't forget to add some supporting evidence to substantiate your answer.

If you use some internet resources to support your opinion, do not forget to provide the necessary reference information.

Looking forward to reading your explanations. 

Post-2: Your introductions

Dear All,

I'd like to ask you to do smth. creative to help me remember you quicker and better and also practise using this blog.

I have a couple of suggestions about what you can do but in the end, you are more than welcome to do smth different. Just remember that the main purpose of this task is to help me to get acquainted with you better and remember your names and surnames.

So, what can you do to help me?

a) publish a picture of you or a picture that is associated with you and tells a small story; explain it
                                                          

                                                    OR

b) publish your favourite YouTube clip:

it can be a clip of your favourite singer/with your favourite actress or acror/smth or smb else you consider your favourite such as one of the following

 a) a cartoon

 b)  an animal  

 c)  a book  

d) smth else: USE YOUR CREATIVE SKILLS and IMAGINATION:)

e) A note on the technical side: 

you'll have some practice today in publishing your posts and learn how to add images to them

Also, I'll explain a number of rules and the conventions you should use when writing your works, including the following:

a) learning about reference styles: MLA, APA, Russian academic publications
b) providing reference details: the author's name, the title of the article, the link to the resource, the date of publication, access date, the page numbers

I'll introduce you to the tool Citation Machine to do it 

c) adding them to your post in-text and in the end of it

Hope you will find this useful and will learn to do it in no time.

Good luck!

Post-1: Welcome to the course

Dear All,

Welcome to the course of Academic Writing which you are going to take this academic year. This blog together with yours will be our learning space where we'll discuss a variety of topics you are interested in and concerned about, we'll share some things that you find exciting/interesting/useful or all of these at the same time. I am hoping that with the help of this course you will be able to improve the skills you already have and master new ones that will help you to become a better writer in English.

Thanks for sharing your first pieces of writing with me.

Topday in class I'll explain to you how to work in the blog, including how to create, edit and publish your works and what you need to remember when drafting, revising and editing them. Do you know the difference b/w them by the way?

I'll also give you some tips that can help you write your works easier and enjoy it more.

Overall, I hope you will find this course both interesting and useful and will enjoy taking it.