Interesting study

My friend is studying how individuals who have lost a higher-status job cope. The coping process lies between job loss and the next chapter of one’s life, but little is known about this. You can help change this, if you had lost a job as a (1) a professional (2) an entrepreneur (3) junior management and above, between the last two to ten years. You could have lost your job for any reason such as redundancy, market failures and personal accidents. You could be thriving today, struggling still or leading another type of lifestyle.

If you have 20-40 minutes of your time to spare for an online survey, you could go to www.chapterchrysalis.com. There, click ‘enter survey’, and click ‘I agree’ on the information+consent page to proceed.

By sharing your experiences anonymously, people who are facing or who will face job loss can have the right know-how to cope, and understand their experiences better. This can help them adjust better and transition into new and better prospects. Think about the last time you heard from someone who walked in similar shoes to you, and learned that what you thought or did was normal. Remember how relieved you felt? Let’s help other people know what is it like to walk in those shoes as they cope with job loss. Let’s help them to recover, and stride towards their new chapter of possibilities.

Please feel free to pass this on via email/facebook/your blogs. Big thank you in advance! ”

C:C | Recovering from career loss

chapterchrysalis.com

I’m undertaking a Doctorate research study on how people cope and adjust to major career loss, examining how this impacts life–depression, bankruptcy, relationship failures. I am also curious about how your 

Modular Assessment Bands

Modular Assessment Bands

Punctuation

Dear all,

I'm writing to you to clarify the punctuation of some key words used in the essay.

You should punctuate the words as follows:

public schools

private school/ private education

state schools/ state education

Hope this helps.

Best

Katie

Tutorials schedule

Dear all,

Please find the tutorials schedule below:

Tutorials schedule

I will give you more details on Wednesday.

Best

Katie

CONGRATULATIONS!

Dear all,

I would like to congratulate you all on the exam results!

You did really well, and as your teacher, I'm really proud of you!

Keep the good work!

Best

Katie

Summer volunteering opportunities

Dear all,

For those of you who are interesting in volunteering abroad next summer, here's a website my good friend has used for her volunteering adventure in South America:

http://www.volunteersouthamerica.net/

Hope you'll find it useful

Best

Katie

Reporting verbs + some useful links for your essay

Dear all,

Helena would like to share this website with everybody:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/learning_english/leap/grammar/reportingverbs/

It's a good source of reporting verbs.

I would like to add more general points about 'reporting':

http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm

Here's also a great page with a wealth of information about academic writing, including style, making an argument etc.:

http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/academicwriter/Frames/framesIndex.htm

Hope your essays drafts are going well.

Best

Katie

Homework for next week

Hello everyone,

Please watch the TED talk about happiness for Friday next week. I hope we'll finally have time for the note-taking quiz.

http://blog.ted.com/2008/08/14/archive_dan_gil/

Also, please don't forget that Friday, 1st November 2013 is the deadline for the first draft submission.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Katie

Language of definitions

How to write definitions

Supplementary Harvard referencing guide for online sources

Harvard referencing system for online sources

Academic Resources for your essay

Academic Resources for your essay

Please find the list of academic resources below.

Great source of journal articles, trade publications, news magazine articles.
http://search.ebscohost.com/
Login: Cambridge1
Password: Brittin

www.jstor.org

http://scholar.google.co.uk

Here are some articles on obesity you might want to use in your essay:

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/25474358?searchUrl=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dobesity%26fromHomePage%3Dtrue%26acc%3Doff%26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff&Search=yes&uid=3738032&uid=2134&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21101694130771 (Free to read online-you need to register a free account)

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20209707?searchUrl=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dobesity%26fromHomePage%3Dtrue%26acc%3Doff%26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff&Search=yes&uid=3738032&uid=2134&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21101694130771 (Free to read online- you need to register a free account)

Hope that helps

Best

Katie

Info about the mid-term exam

The mid-term exam is at 10.15 on Friday 18^th October.

AcCult 3 / PreMA2 and ALS5 teachers will be invigilating the EAP exam for their groups for the 10.15 block.

PreMA1 and EAP6 will be in the ilab for the exam.

Tomorrow's class in the morning

Dear all,

This is a reminder that tomorrow, at 10:15, in room E2, I'm covering for Sally's Friday Advanced Language class.

Enjoy your evening

Best Katie

Homework Answer Key First Week of October

Homework Answer Key 30.09-1.10


missing pages 63-64 from Oshima

2.13 Academic Style

Model answers

.    4a  It is widely believed that the railways are deteriorating.

.    4b  Serious crime, such as murder, is increasing.

.    4c  The figures in that report are not reliable.

.    4d  The second factor is that the majority of children in that district may become criminals.

.    4e  There appears to be a significant risk of further strikes and disorder.

.    4f  Women were enfranchised in 1994.

.    4g  The Russian inflation led to poverty and disease.

.    4h  A malaria vaccine may be discovered in the next 10 years.

.    4i  There were two main causes of the American Revolution.

.    5a  Currently, significant numbers of children are starting school at the age of four or less, whereas 30 years ago five was the normal age. There appear to be various reasons for the change; mothers, for example, need to rejoin the labour force. There are mixed views about the effects of this change on the children concerned. Jenkins (1989) claims that early school attendance causes social problems such as theft and drug taking. There seems to be considerable evidence to support his views and there may be an argument in favour of a state subsidy for women to stay at home with their children.

.    5b  There appear to be two principal reasons for the growing traffic congestion. Firstly, public transport has become increasingly expensive relative to the falling cost of motoring. In addition, car ownership is much more convenient than using public transport. Together, these factors result in higher vehicle density. 

Answers to Additional Hedging Language Exercises

2. 3  Model answers
   

1. 3a  Private companies tend to be . . .
   
2. 3b  Computer manuals can be . . .
   
3. 3c  Older students frequently perform better . . .
   
4. 3d  Exploring space could be . . .
   
5. 3e  English pronunciation is often . . .
   
6. 3f  Global warming may cause . . .
   
7. 3g  Science students tend to work harder . . .
   
8. 3h  Concrete is usually . . .
   

1. 4a  Charles was a rather insignificant king . . .
   
2. 4b  The survey was quite a comprehensive . . .
   
3. 4c  His second book had a rather hostile . . .
   
4. 4d  . . . arthritis drugs are fairly expensive.
   
5. 4e  The first-year students were quite fascinated . . .
   

6 Model answer
A team of American scientists may have found a way to reverse the ageing process. They fed diet supplements, usually found in health food shops, to elderly rats, which were then tested for memory and stamina. The animals tended to display more active behaviour after taking the supplements, and generally their memory improved. In addition, their appearance became rather more youthful and their appetite increased.

The researchers believe that this experiment is quite a clear indication of how the problems of old age may be overcome. They claim that in a few years’ time many people may be able to look forward to a fairly long and active retirement. 

Additional exercises on paraphrasing, summarising and hedging

Deal all,

Please use think link to read more about paraphrasing and summarising; there are also some useful exercises that follow the theoretical part.

http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm

Here is more on hedging:
http://aeo.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/Files/Hedging/Hedging.html

Happy reading

Katie

Additional exercises on reporting verbs and plagiarism 26.09.2013

Reporting Verbs exercises with Answer Key

http://www.essex.ac.uk/plagiarism/test1.html

Homework (Paraphrasing) 26.09.2013

Practice 3- Please notice that these are only suggestions. Your answers may vary.

1. Keeping the astronauts mentally healthy is another issue. On a long flight in the dark and dangerous environment of outer space, the can become lonely and bored (Clinton 18).

2. Astronauts need to be able to release the tension that can build up from living together for long periods of time in small, crowded spaceships doing stressful, dangerous work (18).

3. Instead of spending huge amounts of money to travel to Mars, which will provide little benefit for Earth, we should use the money to solve problems such as curing cancer and AIDS, cleaning up pollution, and helping people who suffer from hunger, homelessness, poverty, and lack of employment (Brunish).

4. Besides the discomforts of a space journey that lasts seven months, getting to Mars quickly is required for a more important reason. Astronauts will be exposed to deadly amounts of radiation because they will be out of Earth's magnetic field, which partially shields them from it (Kluger 48).

Additional Transition Signals Exercise

Transition Signals Exercise

Transition Signals Exercise Answer Key

Cohesion + Oshima's Transition Signals Answer Key

Cohesion

Answer Key (Oshima ch.2)
Practice 7 C
Please notice your responses may vary. These are only suggested answers:

1. another
2. First,
3. in contrast,
4. second
5. In addition,
6. As a result,
7. Clearly,

Extra reading on plagiarism

Dear all,

We started talking about plagiarism today and we will continue next week. In the meantime, I would like you to look at two websites and do exercises that follow:

http://www.essex.ac.uk/plagiarism/test1.html

http://www.uefap.com/writing/

Hope this helps

Best

Katie

Coherence and Cohesion supplementary material

Dear all,

I would like you to have a look at these two websites, which are full of useful tips and exercises on coherence and cohesion:

http://www2.uni-wuppertal.de/FB4/anglistik/multhaup/study_skills/8_study_skills_txt_coherence.htm

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/transitions.htm

Best

Katie

Bailey Examples 18.09.2013

Bailey Examples

Answer Key to exercises 18.09.2013

Dear all,

Please find the answer key to exercises from Chapter 1 (Oshima, Academic Writing) you were supposed to complete.

HM 18.09.2013

Below, there is a list of useful links connected to our lesson today; please use this material to consolidate your learning.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/paragraphs.htm

http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm

Enjoy!

Katie

Key Correction Symbols

Dear all,

Please find Key Correction Symbols document attached. You should familiarise yourself with all the symbols as I will be using them to mark your written assignments.

Key Correction Symbols

Thanks

Katie

Weekly Outline + Course Description

Dear all,

Please find a Weekly Outline and Course Description attached.

EAP Course Description

EAP Weekly Plan

Best

Katie