Finalising your WIT Written Assignment for assessment
The deadline is 3.30pm, Wednesday 22nd April 2015. Email your work to both DBO and IMC.
Email your final WIT essay, including the reflective statement on the text you wrote your final essay on.
The buttons below allow you to download examples of what to hand in.
Use the Assessment Criteria and the feedback you were given in February to identify areas you can improve. Use the Harvard referencing guide to check how to reference.
Improve your knowledge about language and grammar - some useful resources
Purdue's OWL (Online Writing Lab) is excellent. You can look up all sorts of things such as referencing (although it is APA and not Harvard), grammar rules explained, punctuation and good academic style.
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The British Council is a wonderful organisation that promotes all things British, such as cups of tea and tutting in disgust at minor infractions of social etiquette. This website is mainly aimed at people learning English so it is quite straightforward.
TKI is a NZ family of education websites. This is aimed at primary school teachers and is quite interesting when you think about how we acquire language. Hanna Schmitz raved about how helpful it was in a recent tweet. |
This book made me salivate when I first saw it in print late last century. Elizabeth Gordon is the country's leading expert on NZ English. Thjs guide was made for teachers but there is no reason why you should not consult it.
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This button will download a Word document which I used this year with my Y13 NCEA class. Their task was to write a 1500 word essay on Hamlet, using secondary sources. I have not yet adapted it for your IB course but it might be useful in its current form, especially the "ten key strategies" section.
There are also hundreds of useful videos on YouTube. Adam's are pretty good. May the good Lord preserve you from having to watch that hideous Orcon ad with the fat purple Ché in it. |
How to write like a boss - academic writing skills for WIT, EE and beyond
Here are the Writing Clinic slides used in class. Reread the "prescription" slides and apply them to your own writing.