Asssigment 2 : Forum (July 2002)

The topic that I chose was Helping students to develop coherence in Writing.I selected this topic because I am working with that in classes of Pedagogìa de la Gramàtica and Reading and Text Production.Moreover, I have to admit that is a litlle bit difficult for me to write a whole paragraph and keeping the idea during the whole paragraph.

Parts of the problem statement:

Objective:

• Helping students develop coherence in writing
• Creating new and useful techniques to teach coherence in writing

Justification

I think that this theme could be very important to Students of English as a Foreign Language because it helps them; in order to improve their writing which is a very important element when you are studying English; because you have to learn to express yourself not only in the speaking way it is also important the writing and to be a perfect writer you must to have coherence.

My question is:

Which stategies do professors of English as a Foreign Language require to teach coherence in writing?

Problem statement

If you are focusing in a problem, be sure to define and state it specifically enough that you can write about it . You must know that naming a topic is not the same as defining a problem.

The problem statement has four elements which are related; these elements are:

• Stable Context: "The status Quo" surronding your particular problem. It is the point of entrance into your essay and consists of information that will not be challenged by your reader. For example, "Most contemporary literacy critics agree that William Shakespeare designates an actual person who lived from 1564 - 1616"

• Destabilizing Condition: some particular situation or problem that has the pontencial to cause difficulty, either pratical or conceptual, for the status quo. for example, "recent evidence, however, suggests that Shakespeare was actually a name used by various Renaissance writers who wanted to remain anonymous¨".

• Consequences: it is divided into two forms, the cost of leaving the Destabilizing Condition unresolved or the benefits of resolving it.

• Solution: is your proposal for how to resolve or dismiss the particular problem that destabilizing condition raises.

My first experience using Blogger

I have to confess that at the first moment, it was a little bit difficult to me using blogger because was something new for me. Then, I realized that is a good tool for the module V class because I can interact with my classmates and my professor about the units of the class and even daily topics or whatever you want at any time.