Fundamentals of academic writing

Your Classmates Getting Started Classmates Pre writing Ask Questions Introduce Your Partner Writing Look at Model Paragraphs Write a Paragraph About Your Partner Sharing Show Your Paragraph to Your Partner Share Paragraphs with Your Class 2 Fundamentals o f Academic Writing Prewriting Thinking before writing Before you write, you need a topic — something to write about. Here is a topic for you: a classmate. Write about a person in your class. This classmate will be your partner — someone you work with. Step 1 : Work with a partner. Ask your partner these questions. Listen and write the answers. If you cannot spell a word, ask, “How do you spell that?” 1. What’s your first name?____________________________________ 2. What’s your last name?_____________________________________ 3. Where are you from ?_______________________________________ 4. What’s your first language?_________________________________ 5. Where do you live?________________________________________ 6. Who lives with you?_______________________________________ 7. Do you have a jo b ? ________________________________________ 8. What do you like to do in your free tim e?_____________________ Getting Started I Your C lassm ates Martin is asking Yelena about spelling. Step 2: Are there any extra questions you want to ask? Ask your questions, and write the answers here. / T his is Martin. He is f V e n ezu ela. He has Yelena is introducing Martin. Step 3: Introduce your partner to the class or to a small group of classmates. Tell three or four facts about your partner. 3 4 Fundamentals o f Academic Writing Writing You are going to write a paragraph about your partner. Step 1: Read these two paragraphs. i M artin Herrera i My Classmate Yelena I My classmate Yelena Politova is an interesting person. | She is from Ukraine. She speaks Ukrainian and Russian. | She lives with her family in Chicago. She is married. She has | one son and one daughter. She works part-tim e a t the | Chicago Animal Hospital. I hope to learn more about her. Ali Abdi My Classmate Jason My classmate Jason Kim is an interesting person. He is from Seoul, k''area. His firs t language is kftrean. We (ives on campus. We has a roommate. He is not married. He does not have a job. In his free time, he likes to play soooer and video games. He loves to sleep. Getting Started I Your C lassm ates Step 2: Take a piece of lined paper. Write your name at the top of the paper, on the right. Then write this title: M y C la ssm ate_______________________________ (your partner’s first name) Step 3 : Write a paragraph about your partner. Follow the examples on page 4. Begin with this sentence: M y classm a te ________________________is an interesting person. (name) Sharing Step 1: Show your paragraph to your partner. Is the information correct? Make changes if necessary. Step 2 : Your teacher may ask the class to share all the paragraphs. Then you can read other paragraphs and learn about people in your class. 5 Introducing Yourself Nice to meet you! Chapter Preview Part 1: Organization From Words to Sentences to Paragraphs What Does a Paragraph Look Like? Part 2: Sentence Structure and M echanics What Is a Sentence? What Does a Sentence Look Like? Part 3: Grammar and Vocabulary Verbs Nouns Part 4: The Writing P rocess What Is a Process? Expansion Activities 6