Support groups - let's get academic!
It's time to deliver the first draft of my essay, which happens to be the most daunting task of this support group – possibly the entire course. Essays are never easy to write, not in Finnish and not in English, even if both are languages I've been using for years (well, one being my Native tongue).
For this week's task, we had to take a closer look at a text's structure. To do so, of course, I had to pick a new text to read and instead of a regular academic article, I picked my first ever English commentary – related to Geography, of course. I've read commentaries before but while doing this task, I realized...
It's time to begin the journey with my second support group, the Academic Reading group. This one is completely online, so I won't be meeting anyone personally and I can do the tasks given to us on pretty much any day of the week – whatever suits me the best.
Alright! I'm back from the peer reviewing session we had in the Academic Writing support group. This was the first time I could make it to the meeting – luckily, this was only the second meeting anyway – so I was a little surprised by how small the group is. During the opening session, I felt like so many people...
Academic Writing, first task – write a summary!