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Key Input 3: Balancing Language and Content: Follow-on Activity
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Question 1 of 11
1. Question
Tasks 1 and 2 (25-30 minutes):
Read and analyse the text in the following link M02 Session A Key Input 3 Text and answer the questions.
Task 1. Content Analysis
a. What type of writing is this? Have you seen this type of writing before? Is it used in your discipline?
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Question 2 of 11
2. Question
b. What is the topic?
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Question 3 of 11
3. Question
c. What is the purpose? (e.g., to inform, to evaluate/assess, to analyse, to summarise …)
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Question 4 of 11
4. Question
d. Who wrote it? Who is it written for?
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Question 5 of 11
5. Question
e. What is the writer’s stance/position on (the topic/content)?
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Question 6 of 11
6. Question
f. What citations are given? Why? How?
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Question 7 of 11
7. Question
Task 2. Linguistic Analysis
a. How is the text organised and how does it develop? (Can you identify ‘moves’, sections of the text with a clear purpose? What is the order of information?
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Question 8 of 11
8. Question
b. Can you identify any ‘signposting’ language (meta discourse markers) that indicate how the ideas develop?
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Question 9 of 11
9. Question
c. Can you identify any discipline-specific academic words or collocations (words that commonly occur together), any more general academic vocabulary?
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Question 10 of 11
10. Question
d. This is a short entry- but what do you notice about the citation conventions? (Author or information prominent? Summary, paraphrase, quote?)
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Question 11 of 11
11. Question
e. Are there any other linguistic features that stand out for you?
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