How to Write an Effective 5-Paragraph Essay
Thesis Statements: Four Steps to a Great Essay
lunes, 8 de julio de 2019
PORTFOLIO ENTRY #9
HALLIDAY - LECTURE
Michael Halliday - Language evolving: Some systemic functional reflections on the history of meaning
Student
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Time Lapse
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Concept
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Suparo Paula
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0:00 a 0:15
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-Language evolves with its contact with the environment which is composed of physical and social processes that shape and define human life.
-Semiotizasing the human experience is a uniquely human attribute.
-The children’s developmental steps match with the progression of contexts in which meanings are exchanged. .
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Madelaine Bezenzette
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0:15 to 0:30
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-Develop knowledge
Common sense Knowledge: Comes from home, a neighborhood of the child.
Educational Knowledge: Becomes the discourse of the primary school.
Technical Knowledge: Discourse of the secondary school.
Language has evolved through time with the evolution of the human species so that to cope with its needs
language is organized around two kinds of
meanings: the ideational and the interpersonal. A third metafunctional component, the textual, give relevance to the first two.
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Belen Porco
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0:30 to :0:40
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Destruction of knowledge: The polarization, the gaps in our society between what we know and what we don't’ replacing what we have and what we have not.
Evolution of knowledge: Different way of knowing: codifying, transmitting,
A genre has played an important part is narrative
Proverbs: Traditional repository os common sense in everyday life situations. They construed knowledge in isolated doses, they don’t combine patterns, narratives can do this.
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Juan Ignacio Fernández
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0:40 to :45
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-Grammatical metaphor is the actual phase of knowledge and it creates a parallel universe of virtual processes and virtual entities. All of these processes are good for thinking.
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Macarena Garcia
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45’ to 1:07:00
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-Meaning potential changes over time, it always increases and it is modulated and that it is transmitted to the next generation
-All human beings are able to develop the meaning potential in our brain. The meaning potential expands as we learn different languages
System:
-Writing increases the meaning potential. Writing is a contextualized process and its meaning arises throughout the building of language structures and knowledge
-Any human being achieves the meaning potential of the whole system
-Human beings try to improve the language by making new designs
-The meaning potential adds new meanings and it is a significant factor
-Translators provide multilingualism by using different target language discourses and discourse patterns of other languages as well.
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PORTFOLIO ENTRY #7
Thesis Statement
What is it? → It is the specific claim your essay supports
How it is composed? → It is composed of three parts.
1) The subject: It is related to the topic of our essay. What is our essay going to be about? Be careful! 🔔 Knowing the topic is not the same as knowing what you are going to write about in your paper. For example, you can say that you want to write about computers, but that is not enough for a thesis statement.
2) The precise opinion: It is our opinion or claim on that topic. Taking into account the example from above, What do you have to say about computers? Are they good for our environment or not?
3)The blueprint of reasons: It has to do with showing your readers how you plan to argue and support your opinion about that claim. Keep in mind 🔔 the fact that your reasons should be different from one and the other so that they do not overlap the previous one.
Where do these reasons go?
Each reason can go at the end of the Thesis Statement, at the beginning of the Thesis Statement or they can be simply listed in the Thesis Statement.
Look at the examples on the video
This material was adapted from:
Thesis Statements--How to Construct and Compose.
How to Write an A+ Thesis Statement
domingo, 7 de julio de 2019
PORTFOLIO ENTRY #6
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