Bubble Diagram
The above image is a Bubble Diagram that will help plan and begin an academic essay.
Monday, June 15, 2009
iReflect for Week 10
For this week’s reflection I’ll be introducing basic grammar in order to begin writing academically. Grammar in English can be tricky to understand or remember. People until today still forget what was learned right in the beginning of primary school. After teaching Basic English grammar I will then include a structured model to start up writing academically. It’s quite simple when you are aware of the simplest English rules.
What is Grammar? Grammar in English are the nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs preposition, conjunctions and interjection and so on. But for now I will only be concentrating on what these terms are and to help learn the basics first. When writing academically it is important to know what these terms are. This shows that you are aware of what you are writing and what it states in English Grammar. I found a perfect image that shows what these means. With this image you will know exactly what the terms define.
The image is supposed to give an idea of what grammar is. As it states at the top of the image that this is rhyme used for children to have remember and have an idea about grammar. I find this an easy way to remember important grammar terms to be able to understand writing academically. Although this is for children, don't be afraid to learn from this. It helps us tremendously to remember the terms and get a kick start.
*New Feature* On the left side of the blog I've added a gadget that will be quite handy to improve vocabulary skills. It's a Hangman Game. I've come up with a way to improve spellings of words. This should be a good idea to start improving spelling skills and get TXT MSGING language phonetics out of the way for now.
What is Grammar? Grammar in English are the nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs preposition, conjunctions and interjection and so on. But for now I will only be concentrating on what these terms are and to help learn the basics first. When writing academically it is important to know what these terms are. This shows that you are aware of what you are writing and what it states in English Grammar. I found a perfect image that shows what these means. With this image you will know exactly what the terms define.
The image is supposed to give an idea of what grammar is. As it states at the top of the image that this is rhyme used for children to have remember and have an idea about grammar. I find this an easy way to remember important grammar terms to be able to understand writing academically. Although this is for children, don't be afraid to learn from this. It helps us tremendously to remember the terms and get a kick start.*New Feature* On the left side of the blog I've added a gadget that will be quite handy to improve vocabulary skills. It's a Hangman Game. I've come up with a way to improve spellings of words. This should be a good idea to start improving spelling skills and get TXT MSGING language phonetics out of the way for now.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Academic Writing?
So how do you start writing academically when you know you have the symptoms of TXT MSGING. Well that’s an improvement only you can change. I’m just here to help you learn to write academically. First of all what I think to change your way of communication is to change the phonetic spellings to proper English spelling. That way at least you are aware of the correct spellings before starting to write academically. I reckon this would be very affective as you try to this as frequent as you type. Especially when text messaging (SMS), relay chatting (MSN) and social networking (FB). This was definitely affective for me when I was 17 and I had just started my first year of university. This attempt I assure you will show results immediately of at least correct spellings and not phonetics!
Let’s improve our academic skills step by step now that we have decided change our spellings correctly, by first including how to write a paragraph academically. I’ve chosen videos as an asset to learn to write academically. What more could you want with a video that explains and shows everything that you need to know. I’ve attached a video bar on the left side showing a record of videos related to the one I’ve chosen. The video teaches academic writing tips to help begin and end an essay. I will also be including more videos to teach English spellings, grammar and punctuations.
I also want to include something that was significant to me and something I had finally differentiated two years ago and that is the difference between its, its’ and it’s. It was only two years ago that I had figured out how each it actually worked for each sentence. Some people have this as a huge problem and just being not able to understand at all. So to make sure learners out there will not be going through this problem anymore I will be including this in my next post.
So is language dead or evolving? Would text messaging language be the futuristic language? Will academic writing just be academic writing for the classroom or an office?
You shall be updated..
Let’s improve our academic skills step by step now that we have decided change our spellings correctly, by first including how to write a paragraph academically. I’ve chosen videos as an asset to learn to write academically. What more could you want with a video that explains and shows everything that you need to know. I’ve attached a video bar on the left side showing a record of videos related to the one I’ve chosen. The video teaches academic writing tips to help begin and end an essay. I will also be including more videos to teach English spellings, grammar and punctuations.
I also want to include something that was significant to me and something I had finally differentiated two years ago and that is the difference between its, its’ and it’s. It was only two years ago that I had figured out how each it actually worked for each sentence. Some people have this as a huge problem and just being not able to understand at all. So to make sure learners out there will not be going through this problem anymore I will be including this in my next post.
So is language dead or evolving? Would text messaging language be the futuristic language? Will academic writing just be academic writing for the classroom or an office?
You shall be updated..
*Text Messaging Language- BION ( Believe It Or Not)
*Funny text messaging language commercial advertising unlimited text messaging.
iReflect for Weeks 8 and 9
For the past two weeks I’ve been trying to find videos based on text messaging and the use of its’ short form language. So far I’ve found a commercial for text messaging language used in spoken language. In my post about TXT MSGING, I mentioned the T9 Dictionary, which I realized not everyone finds it easy to use. I asked a few of my friends what they prefer- ABC Mode or T9 Dictionary? Most of them of course had preferred the ABC Mode and why? Because they were allowed to be free and deviate their words. They hated the fact that they would have to follow the rules of the dictionary and it didn’t matter if it was right or wrong.
*I have also found a funny text messaging language commercial advertising unlimited text messaging. The consequences of this leads to a high phone bill but with the surprising habit of speaking in text messaging language. I found this commercial quite entertaining because it portrays that text messaging can get influential towards the change of even speaking and writing at such a young age. I remember when I had just started text messaging and that was exactly in the holidays of high school. By the time I went back to high school, I had forgotten to switch my written language to academic writing and I had forgotten important grammar rules and spellings of English language. This may not apply to everyone, but I had not realised then yet that I should change my way or mode of speaking through text because I too hated T9 Dictionary. Irony is it? Hehe I think it is!
I found an article relating to what I had experienced in high school. And I think students have a hard time switching from text messaging language to academic writing. The article is about text messaging communication in Dublin affecting Irish school children. The article stated that students had errors in grammar, punctuation and phonetic spellings and the rise of text messaging language has impacted on standards of writing academically.
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL2551384720070425
Just a note that I will be including some important grammar rules and spellings that will be helpful to learn and use in academic writing.
The Future?
*I have also found a funny text messaging language commercial advertising unlimited text messaging. The consequences of this leads to a high phone bill but with the surprising habit of speaking in text messaging language. I found this commercial quite entertaining because it portrays that text messaging can get influential towards the change of even speaking and writing at such a young age. I remember when I had just started text messaging and that was exactly in the holidays of high school. By the time I went back to high school, I had forgotten to switch my written language to academic writing and I had forgotten important grammar rules and spellings of English language. This may not apply to everyone, but I had not realised then yet that I should change my way or mode of speaking through text because I too hated T9 Dictionary. Irony is it? Hehe I think it is!
I found an article relating to what I had experienced in high school. And I think students have a hard time switching from text messaging language to academic writing. The article is about text messaging communication in Dublin affecting Irish school children. The article stated that students had errors in grammar, punctuation and phonetic spellings and the rise of text messaging language has impacted on standards of writing academically.
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL2551384720070425
Just a note that I will be including some important grammar rules and spellings that will be helpful to learn and use in academic writing.
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