by Christopher Waugh | Jul 7, 2015 | Anthologies, Assessment, Conflict Anthology, Essay Writing, Exams, Exemplars, Featured, Homework, Poetry, Poetry Across Time, Reading, Writing
“Conflict” Poetry Anthology As a class we are developing an anthology of critical responses to the “conflict” poems we’re working with. These will ultimately be combined with the recordings of the poems read by heart that we’ve already created. The following...
by Christopher Waugh | Sep 24, 2014 | Analytical Writing, Assessment, Creative Writing Coursework, Featured, Resources, Whiteboards, Writing
Now that we've spent time analysing spoken and text conversations and discussing, at length, the effects, benefits and challenges posed by the variations people make to their spoken communication, it's time to begin to formulate some theories on the matter. This is a...
by Christopher Waugh | Sep 15, 2014 | Analytical Writing, Assessment, Creative Writing Coursework, Homework, Transcript, Whiteboards
Tonight's homework task is to complete the annotation of this spoken language transcript - using the list of spoken language features attached below to correctly classify each variation from standard written English. Spoken Language Glossary
by Christopher Waugh | Sep 12, 2014 | Assessment, Featured, Resources, Spoken Language Study, Transcription, Video
Today we will be exploring live spoken conversation – and generating our own transcripts. Watch this short video excerpt (from the film “FIT”) and try to write your own transcript of the conversation. SAMPLE TRANSCRIPT: Download (PDF,...
