Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Completion of Commonwealth Essay and Vocabulary Practice

Dear boys

Look like I have to apologise for the mixed up dates for your submission. I have pushed forward the date to this week, thinking I can use the weekend to do selection.

So let me pen down my instruction again. This set of instructions is meant for compliance by NEXT MONDAY!

1 Complete your draft ( about 750words) and post. After you post, invite your friends to make a comment, latest by FRIDAY.

2 Read a friend's essay and make comment to their characterisation, plot, setting or any twists and post your useful insights in order to facilitate any editing he may need. You should read twice at least to register the plot, then the focused elements you want to comment. It is heartening for any artist to be appreciated. Do give ample compliments when they are due to the author! LATEST BY SATURDAY.

3 Complete the vocabulary worksheet, thanks to Vincent who is willing to share this sheet. It works for him, how about you? Give it a go at the discipline of word- building exercise. If it is useful to you, we can do one-sheet a week. Imagine the 1800words you learnt after 30weeks of the academic year in 2008. Raring to go in WORD BUILDING! SUBMIT on MONDAY.

4 Plagiarism Warning
Plagiarism is a form of intellectual theft. You are 'stealing' some one's work and claiming them to be yours. Imagine your essay is being copied/adopted by other writers and they won this competition? How would you feel? SO let's observe Intellectual Property rights.

Therefore, for those who have done their research from any websites, please do not copy word for word, and if you do, quote them in proper punctuations! And PLEASE acknowledge the source of information by stating the URL address at the end of your essay. IF you want to learn to cite your source properly, you can look into some website on CITATIONS that would be useful.


5 NARRATIVE WRITING on MONDAY (60min, 30% of CA1)
You may want to do your own revision on the elements of a narrative again! Nothing beat practice!

Please bring your Resource Book!



Enough for the day, enjoy writing, reading and blogging your experience.


Ms Neo

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