Exam project essay

This area covers the work with your exam project essays.
In it you will find the material needed to produce a well structured essay as well as material and short exercises that you can use to become a better essay-writer.

In this part of the course we will be working with academic essays and more specifically your exam project essay. 

The planning contains lectures as well as time to work with the different parts of the essay. During the introduction of the course we worked with memo- writing in connection with your exam project, now it is time to start developing the essay. 

The essay in general consists of these larger parts, and you will get short lectures in connection to all parts:

Introduction-section

Method and theory

Work/result

Conclusion

Summary

Sources

You will also get classes assigned to writing your parts, with deadlines for different parts so that I can give you feed back. Relevant comments rests on a well strucured planning, so all of you need to include a time-plan for your writing in your project plan (if you haven't already).

Here are links to sites I recommend that you use in your writing process:

http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/introducing-work/

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html

http://www.ub.umu.se/en/write

Läroplansmål

Centralt innehåll

• Teoretiska och komplexa ämnesområden, även av mer vetenskaplig karaktär, med anknytning till elevernas utbildning, valt fördjupningsområde, samhällsfrågor och arbetsliv; tankar, åsikter, idéer, erfarenheter och känslor; kulturyttringar i samtiden och historien, till exempel litterära epoker.
• Muntlig och skriftlig produktion och interaktion i olika situationer och med olika syften, där eleverna argumenterar ur olika perspektiv, ansöker, resonerar, värderar, utreder, förhandlar och motiverar sina åsikter.
• Muntlig och skriftlig framställning inom valt fördjupningsområde.
• Strategier för användning av olika typer av källor, med källkritisk medvetenhet och vedertagna sätt att ange källor, inom valt fördjupningsområde och inom andra områden.
• Bearbetning av språk och struktur i egna och andras framställningar, i formella och komplexa sammanhang, och för att skapa anpassning till genre, stilnivå och syfte.

Uppgifter

10/12 Hand in Project Essay

Here is where you hand in your essay 10/12. You work on your own today and attendance is marked after your essay is handed in! /Anna-Karin

Draft 2 19/11

During today's class you are supposed to hand in your second draft.

Draft 1 5/11 - 7/11

Your first draft of your essay should contain a structured document where you have some background, your thesis/aim stated (what your project is about), your method section, your material description and as much of your results as you can present and a list of the sources you have (list of reference). Your draft is to be handed in after class 7/11. /Anna-Karin