A brief review

I can only afford a brief review for the assignments you have done. It's impossible to comment on each and everyone of your work but believe me you have awarded yourselves with what you deserve. Well done.

Position Paper 20 marks (Ranging from 18-10)

I've given you all a step by step guide on how to come up with a good position paper. You have sent me your titles/positions, and your arguments in 3 points, we've done revisions before I said yes.

Now, the thing is, writing a position paper, like any other paper that is academic in nature, is quite straight forward. Just elaborate the outline, elaborate the points of argument CLEARLY and you're there already. Most of you who didn't score gave me a hard time reading. You hardly guided me through your writing. You were so happy writing that you didn't care that there were some form and structure to abide to.

The title/position is a major thing. Most of you understood and did wonderfully in coming up with a clear strong stand.

The use of paragraph markers are important.

Emphasising the stand at the end of your introduction is important.

Having your points at the first sentence of the paragraphs is important.

Being language teachers, good writing is important.

If you have all that, then 18 marks is for you. 10 marks probably means you didn't even have enough points and the writing of the argument is not clear.

Blog 20 marks (Ranging from 20-15)

As I've mentioned earlier, I'm quite pleased with your work. There are people who have not written enough entries.

It's very easy to see if you have written things from your heart. The writing style is consistent.

Audios and visuals put on the blogs are impressive and suitable.

Online Tasks 20 marks (Ranging from 20-18)

The purpose of these tasks is to push you to explore a bit more on the different genres of alternative texts given in the modules.

I did ask you all to find your answers online, and copy and pasting is allowed just as long you are aware of the existence of these information. I leave it to God if you had merely gone to another person's blog and stolen answers from it. I do check, you see.

Some of you took pains to write sentences in your own words. Well done.

The persona poem were wonderful although I cannot understand why the template wasn't used by some of you. The reason for the template is to see the use of adjectives and noun phrases n your understanding of a character. Useful in a literature classroom! Did I find any plagiarised work? maybe I did.

Research Paper 40 marks (Ranging from 36-28)

 Since you are off campus, I'm not to strict about this assignment. As long as you know mainly how a paper is organised, that's enough. If you are planning to do a master's degree in the future, there is still so much to learn. I am not going to claim that with this assignment, you are ready for a thesis. I salute those who have done honest research and written the paper on their own. With the advent of technology it is hard to keep track of these things. On campus each lecturer is assigned maximum 5 students, who will come to meet us with several drafts before handing in. It's impossible to do the same with the 22 of you. But like I said, as long as you know the process and how a paper is organised, that's enough for this level, given the situation that we are all in.