Monday, 4 May 2015

OUGD401 Context Of Practice Study Task 6

For this task we had to go to the library and pick out two dissertations from the previous years and to read these not for the purpose of the content of the essay but instead to see the style in which the essay was written, taking in to context Punctuation, Grammar, Tone Of Voice, Referencing, Vocabulary, Writing Style and Structure and this is what I did.

For the three points I first thought back to my feedback from the initial draft of my essay and look at three things of which I needed help with in order to complete my essay. The three aspect of which needed drastic change were Referencing and how to do it, The structure of my essay, and in which tense and style they write in.

Firstly I chose to look at the referencing as this was a major problem to my essay. I was really unexperienced with how to reference and where to reference, even though we had tutorials on this It didn't really sink in so when it came to the draft I had really struggled and not been able to reference it correctly so having looked at the way the essay is correctly reference and with a little extra work myself I will be able to properly reference my final essay.
Secondly I chose to look at structure of the essay as one of the biggest pieces of feedback I got back from the first draft was that my essay was structured all wrong and due to this lack of structuring through proper paragraphs and etc that my essay became unreadable even though the content was perfect and so therefore I looked at how the dissertation was structure and in which way they would make points and progress with them meaning after doing this when writing my final essay I would be able to structure it correctly.
Finally I decided to look and the style in which they wrote the essay. A big problem that I had was that due to my lack of experience writing university level academic essays I wrote the whole essay in a personal tense of which is wrong for an academic writing it all has to be based on facts not opinions, after looking at the dissertation it made me realise in which was I would have to write.

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