Entry 02: Advice on Academic Wrting

Metacognitive analysis.
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I have to confess that I found difficult to summarise this piece of text and to express the main idea through PowerPoint, nevertheless, I consider this tool very useful to study and to focus only on the relevant points. I do not use it for any of my practical works, instead, I often use Prezi to make attractive and concise presentations for the primary school I work. PowerPoint is a bit more complex than Prezi. According to SlideShare I did not know about its existence, but it is a good option for students to share their works and to see their partners' simultaneously.

Regarding the content of the presentation I believe that it's so important for students to keep it in mind because I consider that it will be useful for their future lives, even if they decide to go on studying at a college or not. I think it never hurts to have this type of knowledge.

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Entry 00: Let's start

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Entry 04: Performatives and Constantives

Brief summary: According to J.L. Austin, there are different types of statements. Those that describe and those that command. On the one hand, "constatives" are those utterances which describe something true or false; classifying them will depend on the reality assessment of the message's receptor. On the other hand, those statements that command, are called "performatives" which denote an action, this means that they inspire actions in people. As a consequence, performative utterances change the social reality they are describing. Also, I have to mention that there are words that bring about actions and words that themselves are actions; the last ones are defined as "speech acts" . A successful performative statement has to be: - Authoritative - Understood. - Clear - Able to be executed Source: Colleen Glenney Boggs (2013). Speech acts: Constative and performative. Retrieved from TEDed. Last visited: June 3rd, 2020. Availabl...

ENTRY 11: Writing strategies | HEDGING and BOOSTING.

VIDEO 1: THE IMPORTANCE OF HEDGING Publishing a research should be thought of as making a contribution to the ongoing dialogue in your field or discipline. The focus of all research is problem-solving and collaboration and teamwork often expedite this process. The most useful contributions are made in such a way where the primary writer or researchers will receive credit for his or her unique and original contribution but will also leave room for others to add to the dialogue to build off points made earlier to refine them and reinterpret them. One way to achieve this is through the effective use of HEDGING. Definition of hedging Lakoff defined it as words whose job it is to make things more or less fuzzy. Words that can make statement less clear or absolute Hyland wrote that Hedging is the expression of tentativeness and possibility in language use. It represents an absence of certainty and is used to describe an linguistic item or strategy employed to indicate either a lack of commit...

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