SUCCESSFULL ACADEMIC WRITING

SUCCESSFULL ACADEMIC WRITING

•     MAIN PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE:

1.    STYLE: Formal

2.    CORRECT PUNTUATION

3.    PARAGRAPHING

•    ELEMENTS OF PARAGRAPH:

1.    A distintic piece of writing

2.    Focussed on one main idea

3.    Well organised              COHESION

•  QUOLITIES FOR A SUCCESSFULL PARAGRAPH:

1.    UNITY ----- MAIN IDEA ----- TOPIC SENTENCE ------  TOPIC (subject)

                                                                                                                                                                                 CONTROLLING IDEA      w-questions

2.    COHERENCE  --------  logical bridges from one sentence to another.

                                              --------    Repeat key word, use synonyms.

                                               -------   Use pronouns, transitions words.

3. DEVELOPME NT   ------   details, evidence

                                                  ------- Examples

• TEE RULE:  

                      I.        TOPIC SENTECES

                    II.        EXPLANATION

                   III.        EXAMPLE, EVALUATION

• INTRODUCTORY :  ------- topic of the assignment (comment on its importance)

                                          ------  Main argument  

•  CONCLUSION:

1.    Summarize the main point with different words

2.    State main conclusion

3.    Has the question been answered?

4.    DO NOT: -Introduce new material

                -End with a generalization

                -End with a quotation

REFERENCES

CAGE, K.  Writing structured paragraphs. [ONLINE] Retrieved from: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w183qB0KDFg)

MARIEL CARRAZAN- GISELA NIPOTI

Entry N° 8: IMMIGRATION

Should immigration laws be more restrictive?

In many public place nowadays we can see people of different races everywhere mostly begging or asking us to buy things we usually do not want. Should immigration laws be more restrictive? Many people say this phenomenon is unchangeable and that our future is that of a multiracial, multiethnic society careless of whether laws are changed or not. However, it is clear that we must regulate immigration in some way and try to control it before it controls us. The first reason why we should restrict immigration is that it is very often a cause of poverty, but as soon as they arrive in our country they realize that the situation here is completely different from what they thought. Many immigrants can not find a regular job or even obtain a house to live, so they often become poorer than they used to be when they lived in their countries. Moreover, illegal workers are not protected by the law, so the government has no means to protect them from exploitation. To sum up, the government must make sure that the rights of the immigrants are respected, in order to improve not only their lives but also the economy of the whole country.

SHE IS A WRITER

 

  SHE IS A WRITER

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. She is the author of three novels, Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013), of a short story collection, The Thing around Your Neck (2009).
She has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007) and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2008).

           

                                                                           HER BOOKS

                   Humanising History & Connecting Cultures: The role of literature 

 

  MY SUMMARY

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke on Connecting Cultures at the 2012 Commonwealth Lecture, organised by the Commonwealth Foundation.  Adichie spoke about the importance of realist literature, insisting that “the role of literature is to instruct and delight”. She  explained that “Realistic fiction is not the recording of the real, as it were, it is more than that, it seeks to infuse the real with meaning. But in telling the story of what happened, meaning emerges and we are able to make connections with emotive significance. The world of realist literature is not the same as the real world, but it is able to illuminate it.
Ms Adichie reminded the Commonwealth that it is a common assumption that our collective humanity is self-evident, explaining that “when we read human stories, we become alive in bodies not our own. Literature is in many ways like faith: it is a leap of imagination. Both reading and writing require an imaginative leap and it is that imaginative leap that enables us to become alive in bodies not our own. It seems to me that we live in a world where it has become increasingly important to try and live in bodies not our own, to embrace empathy, to constantly be reminded that we share, with everybody in every part of the world, a common and equal humanity.”

A single story emphasizes how we are all different, rather than how we are similar.This is the result of being exposed to only a single story. As Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie points out in her TED talk, “The danger of a single story,” there is never a single story. Her own life is a testament to the fact that Africa is not just what we see on the news. 
Adichie had a happy childhood guided by loving parents, went to school, and spent her days listening to Mariah Carey.  Her life in Nigeria was a far cry from the images of starving African children that we see on TV. Through her talk highlighting personal experiences with stereotypes, both of others and that of her own, Adichie challenged me to think beyond the single story. She reminded me that as humans, we are all more similar than we are different.

APA Style

APA Style

      We have to write a sentence in a variety of ways and still be following perfect APA Style.

      All of the citations of a direct quote must be in correct APA Style, citing the author, year, and page number.

       We have varied the placement of the citation information. By changing the order of information in the sentence, you can choose what information to emphasize.

      Citation content can vary depending on the type of source and may include:

ü  Book: author(s), book title, publisher, date of publication, and page number(s) if appropriate.

ü  Journal: author(s), article title, journal title, date of publication, and page number(s).

ü  Newspaper: author(s), article title, name of newspaper, section title and page number(s) if desired, date of publication.

ü  Web site: author(s), article and publication title where appropriate, as well as a URL, and a date when the site was accessed.

ü  Play: inline citations offer part, scene, and line numbers, the latter separated by periods: 4.452 refer to scene 4, line 452. For example, "In Eugene Onegin, Onegin rejects Tanya when she is free to be his, and only decides he wants her when she is already married" (Pushkin 4.452-53).

ü  Poem: spaced slashes are normally used to indicate separate lines of a poem, and parenthetical citations usually include the line number(s). For example: "For I must love because I live / and life in me is what you give." (Brennan, lines 15–16).

ü  Interview: name of interviewer, interview descriptor (ex. personal interview) and date of interview.