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Latest revision as of 07:33, 10 June 2016
1 Academic Writing Portal
These materials are for improving academic writing skills and the teaching of teaching. These materials are aimed at:
- Writing teachers and tutors of academic writing and composition, especially at the intermediate and advanced levels; for those teaching English as a first or second language
- Those teaching research methods and writing
- Students learning academic writing
- Professors needing help with writing or research methods for course contents or publishing their research
Scroll down for wiki pages and handouts (more will be added over time).
1.1 Writing pedagogy overview
1.2 Featured topics
- Academic versus non-academic sources
- Citation systems
- Connectors (transitionals)
- Participle clauses
- Prewriting techniques & Writing process
- Résumés & CVs
- Theories - Theories, laws & hypotheses: Understanding how these terms are used in science & academia
1.3 Writing pedagogy topics
Materials for teachers
1.3.1 Teaching writing or using academic writing in teaching
- Editing symbols [my system of editing symbols; teachers can devise their own]
- Genre analysis guide [for teaching academic writing]
- Sample assignment: About paradigms in psycholinguistics
- Writing tutor training handbook
- ESL Writing samples for critique: Academic essay introductions [by Korean writers], Letter samples [Korean & Thai writers] EMC Writing tutors manual
- Résumé lesson plan [for teachers]
- Znarf: Exercises for teaching outlining, contrast / comparison paragraphs [& a simpler version]
- Understanding research based articles
1.4 Writing pages: Topics
1.5 Featured topics
1.6 Youtube Videos
Videos to come hopefully in 2017.
1.7 PDF Handouts
1.8 Key handouts
- Paraphrasing / summarizing techniques in writing
- Transitional devices
- Transitionals chart
- Transitionals guide
- Transitionals: Typical problems of Korean / ESL writers
1.9 General form & organization
1.9.1 Writing process
- The writing process
- ESL writing issues for Koreans [typical problems that Korean students have in English]
1.9.2 Academic genre, styles, and discourse
- Genre analysis guide
- Writing about your field's paradigm [in-class write-up about academic paradigms]
- Genre analysis essay
- Differences between academic & general writing
- Topical structure analysis [guide to coherence & flow in writing]
- Differences between academic & general writing
- Understanding research based articles
1.9.3 General form and style
1.9.4 Rhetorical structure
1.10 Transitionals and coherence
- Transitional devices
- Transitionals chart [landscape version]
- Transitionals guide
- Transitional problems of Korean writers
- Inverted sentences [intro]
- Inversion handout [more grammatical details]
1.11 Word choice and word formation
1.11.1 Word choice
1.11.2 Word formation
- English morphology: Problems to avoid
- English morphology: Morphemes in order of level or acquisition
1.11.3 Reporting & communication verbs
Use of verbs like reported, stated, mentioned...
1.12 Source use
1.12.1 Finding & using sources
- Google search syntax & Google Scholar
- Quick guide to APA and MLA
- Complete guide to APA
- Paraphrasing structures
1.12.2 Plagiarism & ethics
- General handout: Plagiarism exercise, Paraphrasing techniques
- Misusing statistics
- Research ethics - notes and famous cases
- Research ethics - handout
- Research ethics - problematic scenarios [for class discussion]
- Plagiarism exercise #1 [exercise based on a popular source]
- Plagiarism exercise #2 [based on an academic article]
- Referencing and citations in APA format
- Rewording - paraphrasing and summarizing
- Prezi presentation file about using sources
1.13 Specialized genres - academic & professional
1.13.1 Business & professional writing
- Business letter samples
- Business letter samples, annotated
- Academic job cover letter #1 (linguistics / psychology)
- Academic job cover letter #2 (research position)
- Résumé lesson plan [for teachers]
1.14 Grammar & mechanics
1.14.1 Writing / discourse grammar
- Definite & indefinite articles
- Complement clauses [that-clauses]
- Relative clauses
- Gerunds and infinitives
- General tips for sentence clarity
1.14.2 Punctuation, spelling
1.15 List of portals
1.16 List of category pages
