ACADEMIC WRITING SESSION

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On the 27/09/2021 I attended the Zoom Call with Peter Thomas and Helen surrounding Academic Writing.

Peter broke down the 3 stages; Generate, Organise and Present your writing.

Generate: Free write, Mindmap, Dictate, List, Private 

Organise: Write about a particular part, Group Ideas, Find Themes

Present: Proof read, How does it sound?

We also discussed the notion of rewriting. As a group we brought to light how this could mean perhaps re-writing a draft, adding more explanation to it, reconsidering and rethinking.

For the majority of this call we undertook the task of Free writing. We were presented with the question 'What is writing?' and had 5 minutes to Free write, which consisted of continuously writing, not looking back at what you had wrote nor thinking about the next sentence. The pen must not leave the paper. We highlighted particular sentences within this paragraph and then again free wrote about one of the latter highlighted sentences. After another 5 minutes we shared in the Zoom call one sentence we had wrote and discussed our points.

Here we implemented GENERATE, ORGANISE, PRESENT.

Moving forward this week, I think I am definitely going to try and free write surrounding my focus area idea. I feel that this will help me explore more ideas and hopefully present new questions.

Peter Thomas' email: p.thomas@mdx.ac.uk, LET@mdx.ac.uk

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