'Workshop on Academic Writing ' ( Phase -1 )

         Most of the time student faces problems when they write an answer in the English Language. They find themselves in an entanglement. Because when we talk about the right structure of writing an answer,  normally this things lack in it. So,  it becomes inevitable to overcome from these kinds of drawbacks. 

               By the same token today we had one session on academic writing. Where Ndoricimpa Clement (A resource person) discussed  about How to write an argumentative type answer...?  In that topic he stressed on :

• To be explicit about the organization. And   If possible use rhetorical structure. 

• Language should be argumentative rather than only a coherent text. 

                 Accordingly,  there are three main stages of writing an argumentative essay. 

• Thesis : Which consists the proposition and background  related to the question. 

• Supporting Arguments : Give textual evidence.

• Conclusion : Be affirm in your argument and synthesize it properly. 

            

               Furthermore he talked about different linguistic devices. 

  

             To make answer coherent, these all devices becomes necessary to use. 

• Cohesive devices : It links one part of a text to another. Cohesion is the glue that holds a piece of writing together and it connects one paragraph to another. There are two types of cohesion - 

α -  Grammatical cohesion 

     It creates link between sentences in a text through the use of the grammatical resources. Like...Reference, Substitution, Conjunction. 

β -  Lexical cohesion 

       In which lexical / vocabular items unifies a text. Such as Reiteration (To show two lexical items are related),  Synonymy (Words that have similar meaning interchangeably - e.g., archaic / obsolete / primitive), Antonymy (Relationship of oppositeness - e. g., A mighty / A little),  Hyponymy ( A relation of inclusion - e. g.,  Computers / desktop / laptop ) and the fifth one is Meronymy. (A lexical item represents the part and others represents the whole )

             Undoubtedly , it was quite informative session to attend.  Thanks to Dr Dilip Barad Sir for arranging these kinds of session. 

                                                        Thank you...