Title: Review: Unit 5 and Preview: Unit 6

1. Review: Unit 5

Topic: Producing information-writing for academic

What I have learned about the topic.

• The structure of the argumentative essay.
• The use of logical connectors.
• The importance of conterarguement and rebatal in essay.
• The difference between deductive and inductive.

What I did or did not enjoy about this lecture.

• I enjoyed everything, especially whereby as students we were arguing about our view points on whether it is necessary for one to have university education in today's society.

2. Preview 6

Topic: Producing academic information-concluding your assignment

What I know or have read about the topic.

• The importance of revising and editing your assignment
• The conclusion DOs and DON'Ts.
• How to write a conclusion of an assignment.

What I did not understand or want to know more of about the topic.

• I understood everything.

3. Comments

• No comment.

Title: Review: Unit 3&4 and Preview: Unit 5

1. Review: Unit 3&4

Topic:Processing information-using sources and Processing information -critical reading.

What I have learned about the topic.

• I have learned about the use of scanning and skimming, especially when you reading a text.
• Different guidelines for scanning.
• I have learned that essay should contain an introduction, body and conclusion.
• The paragraph structure, the paragraph structure should include main idea at the beginning, middle and at the end.
• About the facts,opinions and informed opinions.

What I did or did not enjoy about this lecture.

• I enjoyed everything, whereby as a group we were scanning and skimming an essay given by the lecturer.

2. Preview

Topic:Producing information-writing for academic

What I know or have read about the topic.

• The use of logical connectors when writing an essay .
• the structure of academic texts and the use of homonyms.

What I did not understand or want to know more of about the topic.

• more about how to use logical connectors when writing an essay and how to write an argumentative essay 

3. Comments

• know how to write an argumentative essay.

Title: Review: Unit 2 and Preview: Unit 3

1. Review: Unit 2

Topic:Processing and Producing academic information-finding sources and referencing.

What I have learned about the topic.

What I did or did not enjoy about this lecture.

2. Preview

Topic:Processing information-using source.

What I know or have read about the topic.

What I did not understand or want to know more of about the topic.  

3. Comments

1. REVIEW: UNIT 2

PROCESSING AND PRODUCING ACADEMIC INFORMATION-FINDING SOURCES

WHAT I HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE TOPIC

• I have learned that the are different types of sources that you can for referencing your assignment,essays or your research.
• The is also referencing styles but we normally use NWU Harvard Style.
• Where and how to reference, we have in-text referencing such as direct quotations, indirect quotations and summarising
• what is reference list, referencing is a list of all in-text references
• How to locate appropriate sources.

WHAT DID NOT OR DID NOT ENJOY ABOUT THIS LECTURE

• I enjoyed everything about the lecture
• I now know how to reference and also using appropriate sources

PREVIEW UNIT:3

PROCESSING INFORMATION-USING SOURCES

. WHAT I KNOW OR HAVE READ ABOUT THE TOPIC

• The structure of paragraphs.
• I know what skimming and guidelines for scanning.
• The purpose of scanning.

WHAT I DID NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT OR WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT TOPIC

• I want to know more about scanning a text for specific information

COMMENTS

No comment.

Title: Review: Unit 2 and Preview: Unit 3

1. Review: Unit 2

Topic:Processing and producing academic information-finding sources

What I have learned about the topic.

What I did or did not enjoy about this lecture.

2. Preview Unit 3

Topic:Processing information-using sources

What I know or have read about the topic.

What I did not understand or want to know more of about the topic.  

3. Comments

(Write any comments that you may have)

 

REVIEW UNIT:2 PROCESSING AND PRODUCING ACADEMIC INFORMATION-FINDING SOURCES

What I have learned about the topic

• I have learned how to locate appropriate sources in the assignment.
• Different types of sources such as books,magazines,newspapers,journals,etc.
• I have learned how to reference using different sources.
• How to reference in-text and reference list.

what I have enjoyed

• I enjoyed everything

PREVIEW UNIT:3 PROCESSING INFORMATION-USING SOURCES

What I know or have read about the topic.

• I have read about scanning and also guidelines.
• The purpose of scanning.
• The structure of paragraphs.
• I have read about scanning a text for specific information.

3. Comments

• No comment

 

1. Review: Unit 1

Topic:Introduction to the process of planning and producing an academic text.

What I have learned about the topic.

What I did or did not enjoy about this lecture.

2. Preview

Topic:Processing and producing academic information-Finding sources.

What I know or have read about the topic.

What I did not understand or want to know more of about the topic.  

3. Comments

(Write any comments that you may have)

 

1. Preview: Unit 1

• I have learned what is text, text can be in form of paragraphs, words or sentences.
• Different types of texts such as narrative, descriptive, expository and persuasive/argumentative texts and the academic writing process.
• Text can be informative, instructional, emotive and argumentative.
• An essay should have introduction, body and conclusion and assignment  requires planning.
• Reviews can be formal or informal.
• I enjoyed learning about the academic writing process and choosing topics for our next assignment essay.

 

2. Preview: Unit 2

• I have read about referencing and after you wrote your assignment or essay you should always reference it with different sources.
• I know different types of source such as books, internet articles, newspaper articles, magazines,journal articles and blogs.
• I did not understand referencing very well, I want to know more about it.

 

3. Comments

• Can we please do referencing in the next class.