Undergraduate Essay Writing – VII
Representation of the Essay’s Structure Fundamental to an exploration of how a message is structured is the concept of ‘theme’ and ‘new’. The theme refers to the point of departure of the message, for example in the clause ‘teaching is a challenging occupation’, the point of departure is ‘teaching’. The message is about teaching. The [...]
Undergraduate Essay Writing – VI
Product of Essay Writing Because the data for linguistic analysis were so unwieldy, with a total of some 40,000 words in the corpus of texts, the aim of the early readings of the essays was to identify which of a wide range of linguistic analyses would yield the most revealing thumbnail sketches of the essays. [...]
Undergraduate Essay Writing – V
Approaches to Essay Writing Students who adopted a surface approach conceived of the essay as multistructural and approached the writing of the essay with an intention to reproduce a series of points in a coherent way. They focused their reading on listing key points related to the essay topic, and focused their writing on producing [...]
Undergraduate Essay Writing – IV
Conceptions of Essay Writing Students identified as having a multistructural conception of an essay conceived of the essay as being composed of a collection of points, each related to the topic, but not contributing to a whole view of the topic. Isolated facts gained from reading were used to support predetermined opinions, as demonstrated by [...]
Undergraduate Essay Writing – III
Process of Writing the Essay The students’ experience of writing the essays was studied by asking them questions in a semi-structured interview about the way they conceived of an essay in sociology and about the way they approached the writing of the essay. The interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed and analysed phenomenographically. The aim of [...]
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