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ENGL E102F Wk 2 Sess 2_L02
Activity 1.1
ENGL E102F
Week2 Session 2_L02
Genres
Warm up exercise & knowing each other
CLIMB TO
SUCCESS
Warm up exercise & knowing each other
Recap
Recap
Assignment 1
- Go over Journal Article 1
Genres
A piece of communication either in a written or spoken form with structure and functions.
Recap
Recipe
Structure:
- Ingredients
- Method (steps)
Grammar:
- Imperative sentences i.e. sentences begin with verbs (for actions)
Recap
Memo
- an informal memo between husband and wife
- informal because of the relationship between the writer and the reader
Whether the tone should be academic (formal) or informal depends on the audience
Warm up exercise
Warm up exercise
Family tree
Do you know how to name their relations?
Warm up exercise
Please download the exercise from the folder specially created for L03 and complete the blanks
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sJF5iCyaBi7ps1OvjoUQBWe8rkfkDokL?usp=sharing
Warm up exercise
grandma
cousins
son-in-law
brother-in-law
nephew
Warm up exercise
sister
niece
daughter-in-law
sister-in-law
son-in-law
Know each other
Know each other
Today, I am going to invite the following students to introduce themselves.
Debby; Stephy Chui; Caroline; Ruining; Puja; Shirley; Josie; Julie; Ivy & Quila
Assignment 1
Submission
Submission
- Soft copy: OLE submission button
Late submission
Please be reminded that assignments submitted after 22 days without any prior approval will not be marked.
Organising the ideas
Organize ideas collected
What should be included?
- information collected from the 3 recommended journal articles
- information from your own research
related to addressing the 3 focuses
- seriousness of the problem of a strict, authoritarian parenting style
- causes
- solutions
Should the 3 major goals be considered???
Organize ideas collected
Mind map
Mental health
Child development
Problems
Academic performance
Organize ideas collected
Observe the basic structure of an academic essay
Introduction
Body
Conclusion
Genres
French
= kind, type, class, variety, etc
so it refers to text types
What is a text?
What is a text?
A text is a piece of communication either in a written or spoken form with structure and functions.
Genres
Text types
Genres
Conventions
Each genre has its specific purpose, organization or structure and grammar
Read text 3 to text 5
Work in groups to identify the text types and features
Text 2
Text 2
Memo
- From husband to wife
Rather informal
- Use of personal pronouns: 'me', 'you'
- Terms like 'icebox'
- Rather conversational with a joking tone
- 'Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold'
Use of imperative sentence
Text 3
Text 3
Written records of meetings
Minutes
- Format
- Attendance/ absent with apologies/ apologies
- Past tense & passive voice
Text 4
Text 4
Persuasive text:
- advertisement
- Multimodal text
- Fonts, capitalization, imperative sentences, pictures
A multimodal text is a text combining two or more semiotic systems e.g. written language and visual images.
Text 4
- Use of persuasive language:
- EVERY FAMILY NEEDS ONE ...
Text 5
Text 5
News article
Report a news story
- Contain a headline
- In columns
- Quotation
- Past tense
Text 5
News article
Report a news story
Headline
Columns
Not following the conventions, then???
Go over text 1
Letter from a prospective suitor
Prospective =
to describe someone who wants to be the thing mentioned or who is likely to be the thing mentioned
Text 1
Text 1
Reply from Julie Yeh
Letter from Romy
Dearest Ms Julie Yeh
Yours sincerely
Mr Romy Oh
Modern reply to modern dating
Attn: Mr Romy Oh
Dear sir
Yours perhaps
Julie Yeh
Encls.
Text 1 (condt.)
Format: a letter
- A love letter?
Like letters between employers and employees
Tone: not right
Academic and formal
Text 1 (contd.)
Lexical resources: not right
Discipline specific terms
Please be reminded:
This is what we are looking at when marking your assignments and exams
Tone; Lexical resources; Conventions
What is wrong?
Structure, function
The __________ contradicts with the _____________
Conventions
Therefore, when doing assignments
- Pay attention to the functions/ purposes (situation and task)
- Use appropriate format, appropriate vocabulary, appropriate tone, etc
Academic purpose
Genres for academic purpose
One genre in the exam
Examples:
- Discussion
- Exposition
- Argumentation
Specific purpose
Genres for specific purpose
Example:
- Job application letter
One question in the exam
More about text types
Now let's look at the text types mentioned in the course pack, Module 1, P.2
Activity 1.1
Do you know every type of text in the list?
Which type(s) do you not know?
The list of texts
Types of text
In the first lesson, you have gone over some types of text.
Structure matches with the function
- memo
- minutes
- advertisement
- news report
The list
Do you know each of them?
The list
I guess you should be quite familiar with the following.
Diary entry; Essay; Form; Formal email; Formal letter; Menu; Personal email; Poem; Newspaper article; Novel; Report; School magazine article & Short story
The list
How about these?
Biography; Blog entry; Book or film review; Brochure & Survey
Can you explain briefly what they are?
Biography
An account of someone's life, written by someone else e.g. Helen Keller
Blog entry
Blog: a website where someone regularly records their thoughts or experiences or talks about a subject.
Book or film review
A description and analysis of a book or a film
Brochure
Usually a thin book with pictures that gives you information about a product or service
Survey
It can be
- a series of questions to find out detailed information about a lot of different people or things.
- work to examine and measure an area of land in order to make a map of it.
- a careful examination of the condition and structure of a house, usually carried out in order to give information to a person who wants to buy it.