Developing plans from titles
Most written works begins with a title, and students must be quite clear what question the title is asking before starting to plan the essay and read around the topic. When preparing to write an essay, it is essential to identify the main requirements of the title.
Almost all the essay, reports and articles have the same basic pattern of organisation :
Evaluating a text
When reading a text, it is important to ask yourself questions about the value of the text. Is this text fact or opinion? If fact, is it true? If opinion, do I agree? can this writer be truster?
These questions can be shown in a diagram:
I thougth 3 possible topics to start researching and evaluating possible sources to write the academic paper:
1. motivation: Motivation is the glue that holds everything together, the hub around which most school developments can be considered. It’s a way of thinking that needs to permeate the whole school about the power of motivation in the classroom and about the core conditions for effective teaching and learning.
2. introducing ICT in the classroom: With the internet, social networking, mobiles and other technologies now part of daily life for many of your students, you play a vital role in helping them to manage their digital spaces and develop their ICT, media literacy and social skills
3. authentic materials: Students are exposed to real discourse, as in videos of interviews with famous people where intermediate students listen for gist. Authentic materials keep students informed about what is happening in the world, so they have an intrinsic educational value. As teachers, we are educators working within the school system, so education and general development are part of our responsibilities. In today's globalized world, examples abound, but the most commonly used perhaps are: newspapers, TV programs, menus, magazines, the internet, movies, songs, brochures, comics, literature (novels, poems and short stories), and so forth.
