Thursday 26 June 2014

College Student Writing

The various authors and educators agree that when students enter college, they are expected adequate levels of comprehension and production of written work good. However, we find that the largest deficits of those arriving are poor comprehension of academic writing style that is categorical conceptual content and composition of essays and argumentative character, also in their work difficulty degree of inferential construct texts. Students have serious difficulties in understanding a scientific text and serious problems to organize information in writing; little easier to identify main ideas and hidden information; problems to argue, find, organize and select information.

The need to attract skilled readers and producers of texts has focused on the task of encouraging students written on teaching and learning situations or in other cases to states to develop general policies through projects such as the National Writing composition Project (NWP) in the U.S. Most teachers emphasize scriptural activities test type in the literature search, performing highlights. However, evaluation systems emphasize more the difficulties presented by the writings that form part of the work that they assign their students, which provide guiding elements for processing.

These difficulties of college students may be linked to factors such as poor scriptural atmosphere surrounding the young, the small Impute reader, i.e. a low threshold of reading and assimilation of favourable skills to assignment writing; the few opportunities they have had to work with a variety of texts in other levels of education, and the prevalence of deeds of oral and descriptive of analytical writings, which are regulated by operations of complex thought and functions of symbolization. Reference is made ​​here to the possibility of thinking in terms of categories and relations of categories as well as to develop a writing analytical nature.

The textualizante writing is one in which the written productions reflect a greater degree of respect for the standards of the contextualization of academic record: adequacy, consistency and correctness. The writings in this group are those that are considered a single reading, which can be read in one sitting. The naive writing is one that forces the reader to re-read, to understand the meaning. The thematic development is relatively clear with relevant information and a degree of semantic structure, but the relationship with the language rules is hesitant. It is a poorly controlled writing, no reviews. The writing is copious texts that have a degree of 'disorder' greater than in previous styles; structures become more complex and gradually dissipate.


The script adds chaotic marked difficulties adapting. The 'disorder' progresses, the disruption caused by the accumulation of failures discourage the reader and can cause the abandonment of reading. A real effort to advance the construction of meaning is necessary in complex structures, information recharged. Al disorder failures content correction and adjustment added. The poor essay writing is the very script writers who demonstrate a lack of experience on the job training. The reader (even teachers) fails to understand a careful reading and generally to ask for explanations, need to talk with authors to fill gaps in writing. They are texts with marked interference of oral forms corresponding to early schooling. Insufficient writing is that which the authors just write a sentence; therefore are indescribable as the "void" will prevent any type of evaluation or analysis. The author can only formulate hypotheses concerning the powers of the subject, with his lack of training; and in other cases, the conditions of production, which may eventually create negative attitudes; for example, the subject resists or refuses to write.

Friday 20 June 2014

How to write a conclusion of an essay?

A conclusion is basically summing up all the ideas, concepts, analysis, and views together. The end of an essay or conclusion should state the outcome of the whole essay by summarizing the significant concepts along with the writer’s suggestions.

A weak ending to your essay may give a feeling of vagueness to the reader. The examiner would feel that the concepts were not clear enough to convey the proper message. The main function of the conclusion is to summarize and restate the whole content of the essay. However this should be noted that simply the repetitive summary will reduces the influence and impact of the argument.

A conclusion should stress the importance and significance of the essay statement, give the essay a feeling of fulfillment and leave a long lasting impact on the reader or checker. The conclusion should be strong enough to demonstrate what the whole essay carries for a reader. It should play the role of the quick check for the examiner.


However there are certain elements which should not be present in your essay such as the following:
·         New information should not be present in your essay.
·         Ending up with a long quotation should be avoided.
·         Prime focus should not be on any one element or concept.
·         Mere summing-up with no suggestions. 
What to include:
·         Summarizing the argument presented in the main essay body and how these identify with the paper question.
·         A restatement of the fundamental perspective exhibited in the introduction accordingly with the subject.
·         Perspective on what may happen.
It is advisable to add your opinion in the conclusion but it should be noted that your tone should not be excessively authoritarian as this may lead to associate a bad image to your essay. Avoid phrases like "in conclusion," "to conclude," "in summary," and "to sum up." The readers have an idea when is the essay about to end, by including such phrases you will make your essay weak. Let the reader decide where the ending of your essay is. A well constructed essay has clear and prominent leads about the conclusion.


The importance of a conclusion lies in the fact that it has the power to persuade the reader to your point of view and it gives a complete image of your essay by summarizing the important points therefore it should be constructed with a strong brain-storming.

Wednesday 18 June 2014

Writing Skills Applied In Expository Writing for Students of Integral Education in Venezuela

Venezuelan education is taking, today, the challenge of its own construction, which must be in accordance with the needs of cultural and social communities. The training and education of teachers plays a major role in the transformation of any society. The teacher must fulfill the role that has been assigned to them for the development of the learner. As the development occurs the students will acquire skills in many ways. Among these skills the most relevant are the use of oral and written language.

In this regard, it is important to recognize that writing, as a manifestation of language; the user requires an enormous amount of skills that allow this activity to be performed effectively. It is therefore necessary to train teachers, both; the ones presently into involved in the teaching career and which are preparing to initiate their teaching career.

The Venezuelan education requires an educator possessing defined psychological, ethical, educational, moral, social and cultural features through which they develop their reflective thinking and, consequently, of his students as well. Among the traits which a teacher should possess the most significantly required one is the ability to efficiently use their speech and written expressions. It should also be strong enough to promote the positive reading attitude among the students.

In this vein, it is necessary to recognize that, within the aspects mentioned above there is an important role of writing. This is a complex process that requires extensive knowledge, practice and constant handling other tools, such as reading for an individual to effectively and productively communicate their ideas in a coherent manner.

It is therefore imperative that institutions of higher education, especially those responsible for teacher training to incorporate sufficient strategies into their curriculum that will provide the students with the opportunity to enhance their speaking and written language. They are granted with a chance to fulfill their educational deficiencies in developing language and in particular written language.

In effect, it is necessary for future teachers to engage in language training programs for the development of their teaching abilities and simultaneously it is equally important for the institutions to recognize the importance of responsibility placed on them for their training by providing the foundation required for it to be optimum.

From this perspective the teacher must know the code, the verbal system (oral and written), along with the clearance about the different contexts of use and degree of interaction among members of a community. Likewise, know the strategies of production and comprehension for both written and oral language. (Fraca, 2001, p. 99).


However, the reality in the university classroom is not different from other educational levels. In this student encounter profound deficiencies linguistically with a huge lack of basic aspects of essay writing, dissertation writing, coursework writing and assignment writing. This ultimately leads to failure in their academic progress. 

Teachers need to understand the caliber of the students and deliver appropriate time in the classroom. It should be significantly enough to develop their ability to reflect the role teacher played.  Viewed from this perspective, it requires a thorough review of the educational process that allows short time generating solutions for improving the communication skills of university students.

Thursday 12 June 2014

Designing a Task-Based Course

This article will discuss the thoughts, models and views of different scholars upon designing a task based course. Task based courses are designed to engage and interact with students in lessons.
Designing a Task-Based Course