Argumentative Essay peer comments

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I hope you all are writing the last part of the argumentative essay. Once you send it to the blog, please provide peer comments too. Follow the guideline given earlier. You do not have to write the comments in point form. Instead, you can write a paragraph. Apart from that, students are expected to be more analytical in giving comments to the peers this time. This will help to improve the essay. Since it is an argumentative essay, add additional comments according to the following guidelines (use the guidelines given earlier + new guideline and write a paragraph)

o Well structured, Clear structure /Introduction and/or conclusion do not directly address the question /Poor introduction and conclusion – stance not clear /Structure very poor (intro & conclusion; topic sentences & paragraphs)

o A convincing case made /Case made fairly convincingly/ Case unconvincing in places /Case unconvincing

o Topics sufficiently expanded & explained / Topic are not sufficiently expanded/

o Well synthesised / Significant direct copying from the texts/ Poorly synthesised

o All main ideas included/ All main ideas included but some not fully developed/ Some main ideas omitted

o Information drawn from all texts / Information not drawn from all texts – several main ideas omitted; mostly copied but information organised appropriately into paragraphs

o Sources acknowledged consistently/ Acknowledgement of sources often inappropriate

o High level of accuracy; formal & objective language, appropriate transitions

Text Production Essay

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Congratulations to all of us for writing and proving feedback to improve the essay. The next step is to make the changes and post as the 'Final version of Text Production Essay'. And for the record, please cut and paste the essay on a word document and get a print-out. Then the essay will be evaluated and sent to the file.

Interesting

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as 'Euro-English'.

In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of 'k'. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced with 'f'. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.