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


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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.