Seminar #6: Essay + Visual Appendix

Within this seminar we were given the brief for the essay, which we were told was already on unilearn in the theory as practice section. It tells us what we need to do and the deadlines that we need to meet for this part of the course for second year. The essay is 2500 words, which doesn't include our references, the essay that we will have to do is based off the presentation title or research question that you have just been presenting. We were then then shown two different examples of essay's that showed us how the structure of our essay should look like. This allowed us to look at the layout that we need to follow when creating and writing our essay. To start off the essay you need to start with the title, mine was 'Title Sequences between the 1960's and Now?'.

The structure

• Introduction - Title 
• Abstracts and Keywords
• Introduction to the essay 
• Main Body 
• Conclusion 
• References List and Bibliography

Feedback is very important on the essay, we need to make sure that we produce a 750 word draft of our essay for our formative assessment by February. We also need to produce along our essay a Visual Appendix (Poster) or a visual summary of our essay. Where will use our 150 word abstract to help us to produce another 2500 words. The size of this Visual Appendix needs to be A2 Size. 

What is an Essay?

An essay is an argument, where the essay is a concise evidence. 

We were told that we need to make sure that the essay has a clear defined structure, a clear narrative and be well written. The references aren't included in the essay's word count, we were advised that we should create a folder to become organised and not get mixed up with the different materials that we have been provided with. We then looked at the Do's and Don't of what to do when writing an essay, I found that this was quite useful because it is something that I could follow and look at when writing my essay to make sure that I do it correctly and not incorrectly. 

Do's 

• Define terms.
• Write carefully. Build good sentences. Link related sentences in clear paragraphs. Work toward an overall structure.
• Use time flow.
• Provide sources. Offer evidence.
• Present and discuss contrary evidence.
• Cite direct and paraphrase quotations carefully and explicitly.
• Read aloud. Revise and rewrite.
• Find the environment, time and routine that works best for your writing.

Dont's

• Use slang and jargon.
• Use professional, technical or 
• scientific terms that you cannot 
• explain or define.
• Use fancy words.

The most important thing to make sure is that there are no Grammatical and Syntax Errors, within your essay as this may create some difficult within the written work. The difference between Grammatical and Syntax Errors is that Grammatical is spelling and the Syntax Errors are tenses and the way that the sentences read. For our next seminar we need to look at the feedback that we will receive next Monday from our assessments and change the improvements within our presentations using the feedback. I found that the seminar was quite useful.