- Conceptualize strategies and familiarization with writing in an exam setting
There was no journal writing today. We went straight to the handout "Writing in Exam Conditions", stopping and talking about the expectations and strategies behind writing an exam essay. We studied the sample essay for structure, organization, use of formal words, and connectors between sentences and paragraphs.
They then were given a sample exam sheet. First they watched an excerpt from a video and then read the short text; then read the exam question. They had to work out what exactly the exam question was asking, and then write an outline for their hypothetical essay.
Some sts were able to write a very concise outline of a few words for each paragraph as well as their main point and a type of recommendation for their conclusion. Others have never written an outline before and so struggled and took a lot of time. They wrote full sentences and some simply began writing as if they were writing the entire essay, even though they THOUGHT they were writing an outline. I asked two students who, during monitoring, had written brief but clear outlines, to read them out for the whole class to hear.
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