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Essay Writing 1 for Students in the BA in Human
Resource Management programme
  • Regional Writing Centre, UL
  • Patricia Herron, Lawrence Cleary and Dr. Íde
    OSullivan

2
Game PlanWhat do we want to accomplish today?
  • How do we structure a business report/essays?
  • Getting it from my head onto paper in a way that
    meets with my desires
  • Sounding academic and being relevant
  • vocabulary

3
What does the Writing Centre do?
  • We help students to establish a framework on
    which to build a way of approaching any occasion
    for writing.
  • We work on writers, not on writing.
  • We look at processes, and ask questions about
    writing strategies.

4
A Framework for Writing-strategy Development
  • Writing Process
  • Writer-based Writing
  • Prewriting
  • Assessing the Rhetorical Situation
  • Inventing
  • Planning
  • Gathering information
  • Drafting
  • Getting your ideas down onto paper
  • Organising your ideas in a way that allows you to
    realize your purpose

5
A Framework for Writing-strategy Development
  • Reader-based Writing
  • Revision
  • Global revision structural/paragraph-external
    logic/inaccessible)
  • Local revision Editing and proofreading
    (paragraph-internal logic/sentence-level
    issues/accessible, but inappropriate or
    imprecise)

6
Research and Writing Strategies
  • Cognitivewhat we think
  • Metacognitivewhat we do/plan
  • Afffectivewhat we feel
  • Socialhow we involve others

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Assessing the Rhetorical Situation
  • Occasion
  • Topic
  • Audience
  • Purpose
  • Writer

8
Analysing the Assignment
  • Understanding organisational behaviour has never
    been more important for managers (Robbins,
    200314).
  • Explain why this is the case, outlining in your
    answer the challenges and oppor- tunities faced
    by managers, and the value of understanding
    organisational behaviour to a practicing manager.

9
Analysing the Assignment
  • Lets look at your assignment
  • Topic?
  • Aspect?
  • Scope?
  • Point of view?
  • Instruction?

10
The Importance of Prewriting
  • What do we do before we write?
  • Assessing of the context into which we write
  • Making a provisional plan and trying to visualize
    the paper
  • Researching and note-taking as a strategy against
    accidental plagiarism

11
Assessment Criteria
  • What makes for a good essay at this academic
    level?
  • A clear organizing principle
  • Logical, coherent overall structure with a sound,
    easy-to-follow conceptual framework
  • Well structured, cogent, coherent paragraphs
  • A stimulating rhythm controlled by suitable, but
    variable sentence structures
  • Appropriate lexical choices
  • Intertextuality
  • Responsibility

12
Intertextuality
  • Understanding and accurate reporting of the most
    current discourse on the topic
  • Accurate reporting
  • Quotingthe authors words
  • Paraphrasinga complete and accurate rendition of
    the authors thoughts
  • Summarisinga general, but accurate idea of what
    the author said/ the gist
  • Referencing (parenthetically/in full)

13
Rigour
  • The academic project is not to be right, but to
    expose what is trueregardless of the
    consequences.
  • Academic rigour requires that students look
    beyond what lies on the surface, considering
    inferences and evidence that is based on cultural
    assumptions that have no foundation in fact, but
    only in cultural consensus.

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Critical Thinking
  • Knowing without understanding
  • Critical analysis/evaluation of the work of
    others
  • Strengths and weaknesses and justifications for
    the evaluations
  • Similarities and differences in arguments or
    methodologies, evidence or line of reasoning
  • The degree to which something known can be
    generalized to other populations/situations
  • Degree of sophistication/complexity

15
Critical thinking means
  • Identifying the big players in a discourse on a
    particular subject
  • Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of all of
    the various positions on a particular issue
  • Being able to identify trends in thinking or
    occurrences based on available evidence
  • Constructing logical answer frameworks that lead
    your audience through your thought process as you
    follow the evidence
  • Selecting the best evidence
  • Selecting evidence that illustrates or
    demonstrates your point or main argument

16
Drafting
  • The best time to begin writing is now
  • Cover page with a working title
  • Reference pageAs you read and take notes, write
    parenthetical references in your notes and full
    references on a reference page. You can always
    delete sources that you do not refer to in your
    text.
  • Draftingbeginning to give shape to the vision

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Drafting
  • The best time to begin writing is now
  • Cover page with a working title
  • Reference pageAs you read and take notes, write
    parenthetical references in your notes and full
    references on a reference page. You can always
    delete sources that you do not refer to in your
    text.
  • Draftingbeginning to give shape to the vision

18
DraftingA place to start
  • What problems am I having with this paper?/with
    essay-writing in general?
  • Freewritetell us what it is about. Tell us about
    the paper.
  • 5minutes, non-stop
  • Express complete thoughts (not bullets and
    phrases, but sentences)
  • Do not edit
  • Private writing

19
Drafting
  • Sometimes we freewrite/draft just to collect our
    thoughts.
  • Sometimes we freewrite/draft just to clarify our
    thoughts, to distinguish what we know from what
    we only thought we knew.
  • Sometimes, freewriting/drafting is a strategy
    that we use to begin the paperjumping in at the
    deep end.

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Methods of Development
  • In the assignment that I began with, what is the
    relationship between the truth of the proposition
    and these present day challenges and
    opportunities?
  • What is the relationship between these
    present-day circumstances and the value of
    understanding organizational behaviour?
  • Can you say what these relationships are? Can you
    explain these relationships to yourself or
    others?

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Methods of Development
  • Given that you know that the truth of the
    proposition is dependent on managements ability
    to skilfully match some aspect of their
    understanding of organizational behaviour to a
    particular present-day condition and that the
    value of that understanding is dependent on its
    ability to inform decisions that help the
    organisation survive or grow, how does this
    knowledge help you to develop the paper, your
    explanationyour ideas?
  • Can you diagram the development of ideas in your
    paper?

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Drafting and Global Issues
  • When drafting, one might pause occasional-ly, to
    see if anything is developingto see if the paper
    is taking any identifiable direction.
  • It is at this time that we are looking for some
    sort of framework on which the paper (the
    argument) will hanga point of order.
  • Do not worry about tone or grammar, vocabulary or
    sentence structure, or punctuation.
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