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Theory Core skills

Genres

ExercisesCore skills

Genres


Core skills

note-takingparaphrasingexpressioncohesionregister


Genres

précis (+ audio CD) abstractessay (argumentative & expository)letters & e-mailspeer assessment & reviewing


For Dutch L1 speakers?

• focus on interference from Dutch in English writing

discourse markers (chapter on cohesion)* Shortly, this paragraph lacks focus.In short/In brief, this paragraph lacks focus.

complementation (chapter on expression)* Is it possible that I leave early?Is it possible for me to leave early?


For Dutch L1 speakers?

existential clauses (chapter on expression)* There were made many mistakes.Many mistakes were made.

• focus on English organizational patterns (chapter on cohesion; essay)

When writing for an academic audience in English, always state your organization. (1) Tell your audience what you are going to tell them; (2) then tell them; (3) then tell them what you told them.


general

specific


Topic sentence + elaboration

While most of the developed and developing world is very keen on learning more than just the native language of their home country, Americans tend to skip this part of education, or learn foreign languages rather perfunctorily.

Davidson & Johan (2011), having conducted a country-wide research on the issue, report that only 17.8% of adult Americans, across the country, can fluently speak, and correctly write, in one or more foreign language. This number is extremely low for a developed society. To put this into perspective, 86.1% of Germans, 74% of Swedes and 59.6% of Russians are fluent in at least one foreign language. This number is even higher amongst some of the Asian population.


Rewrite these tweets into a formal paragraph. Include a topic sentence.

Am impressed. Very strong performance from Farage. He's wiping the floor with Clegg who refuses to give straight answers #lbcdebate #UKIPHas nick actually answered a question yet. He just waffles on and deliberately doesn't answer what was asked #LBCdebateSeems it's bureaucracy v exports? Farage says too much red tape. Nick says UK jobs linked to European exports #LBCdebateWhile we can't control borders, we can't plan for school places, hospitals, housing. Time for a rethink. http://Referendumnow.org #lbcdebate

https://twitter.com/search?q=#lbcdebate&src=hash


https://twitter.com/search?q=#UKIP&src=hash

https://twitter.com/search?q=#LBCdebate&src=hash




http://t.co/oXZwpUh2bE




Genre chapter – Précis and Abstract

• Précis is the focal text type of E1PB-SC • Incorporates broad range of skills

o Text processing Listening/reading, note-taking, outline Identifying main/ secondary points, omission, generalisation,

coherence

o Text production Cohesion, coherence Paraphrasing Register Idiomatic/Language (Expression)


Top-down process: main/secondary points; sequence; coherence


Skills chapter - Paraphrasing

• Purposeo variety; deal flexibly with source texts; specialist to non-

specialist (terminology); change of tone (objective)


Skills chapter - Paraphrasing

• Techniqueso Lexical

Substitution o Syntactic

Nominalisation (adverb, verb, adj. – noun) Passive – active

oPerspective My glass is half full/half empty.

o Simplification Idioms; terminology Wordiness


substitution; wordiness

This clever little bag is better than our old shoebox because it takes 65% less paper to make one. (smart / ingenious / innovative)

Answer: ingenious/innovative

If the appliance is not in need of an overhaul or general repairs, and in fact runs perfectly well, then there seems little to gain from attempting to effect an improvement.

Answer: `If it isn´t broken, don´t fix it.´

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