Entry #9 Writing Proyect: Refugees

 Writing Proyect: Refugees

Giammarco Pastore (May 25, 2016) We Refugees - Benjamin Zephaniah. Available at: https://youtu.be/HfAn14w2q0c

Migrant Voice (June 17, 2020) `Refugees´ by Brian Bilston. Available at: https://youtu.be/q34vo3u0mzM

Academic genres include essays, articles, papers, abstracts, among many others. Let's focus our attention on the first one: ESSAY. As you know there are different kinds of essays: descriptive, narrative, persuasion, expository, comparative, opinion, argumentative essays. Basically they are 5-paragraph long formal texts (although they can be longer, of course).

How to write a 5-paragraph essay

Thesis statements: How to improve them

TEDx Talks (December 7, 2015) 15 Years in a Refugee Camp: How did I learn? Available at:  https://youtu.be/GhAx_cHoQUw

Metacognitive analysis

If you think that one of the most challenging things of this 2020 was to be in quarantine for more than half a year, that´s because you didn´t try to write an essay! (ha,ha,ha). It took me a lot of time and believe me that when I say "a lot", I mean A LOT! Paradoxically, it was also one of the most valuable and interesting assignments as I had the opportunity to put into practise what we have been studying so far and I learned plenty of things about inmigrants. 

To solve this task I had to choose an appropriate topic to develop, I had to research and look for specific information in differen sources, I had to carefully plan my work, I had to put my ideas on words as clear and accurate as possible and I had to re-read and edit my writing just to mention some of the steps followed. Unfortunately, after all that exhausting work, the final result was not the expected. Never mind, I gained knowledge and now I know which my weaknesses are and I really hope to make it better nex time.