27/04/13 - Coursework information and first draft.
Mr. Hendrick
Coursework Coversheet.
The CoversheetExample of Sections 2 & 3 filled in
Note how, for sections 2 & 3 you should be:
1. Narrow, niche and (almost) nerdy in focus.
2. Ruthlessly focused by a specific FORM (it has to either exist or be credible), explicit PURPOSES (explicitly use "purpose verbs" - see next) and carefully identified AUDIENCE.
3. Employ 'Purpose' verbs from the following list: inform / explain / describe / analyse / review / comment / argue / persuade / advise
4. Reliant on an intelligent range of sources: (eg: magazine article / video / broadsheet newspaper article / blog / chapter from a text book / interview / poll / graph or chart or visual source / history / diary / etc...)
Bad title: Write an article about climate change
Good title: Your local council are considering building a wind farm in the area to help provide electricity. Write a letter to the chairperson of the council explainingyour views on the wind farms, arguing either for or against the proposal.
Bad title: Write an article about your favourite musician
Good title: The Music Magazine, Mojo, is asking writers to contribute articles which analyse and review the merits of a particular group or musician and attempt to persuade the readers to vote for them in a forthcoming poll. Write the words of this article.
Reading...
- here: http://edcaesar.co.uk/article-archive.php
- here: http://www.newyorker.com/
- here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/henryporter
- here: http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/christopher-hitchens
- here: http://www.clivejames.com/guest-writers
- here: http://longform.org/lists/best-of-2012
- here: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300011h.html
- here: http://www.personal.psu.edu/jxm22/browseread/englishessayists.html
- here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/julieburchill
- here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/series/jayrayner
- here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/series/greatspeeches
- here: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
- here: http://vagendamag.blogspot.co.uk/
Writing...
Punctuation tutorial: you HAVE to show that you can master language.
Email briefing: start of summer Term
5 weeks to get the Project done. Remember the three crucial sections:
1. Reflection on your reading (type and use of sources)
2. The Assignment
3. Reflection on your writing
As an example of making use of sources in an argue/persuade/advise piece from a broadsheet newspaper this is very useful:
Please post a link to your draft in here. (Post as Google Doc and remember to 'share' it so others can read.)
Alexandra Russell
Gabriella Farah
Cotters
Lewis Symonds
Georgie Hockenhull
maxwels
Chibi Auerbach
Eliza Cudmore
Matthew Bailey
An informative article to be posted in a blog
Nanotechnology: where is the medical industry heading?
Over the past century nanotechnology has become a major part of millions of people’s lives across the globe. This has given them access to resources that before were previously only available to the military and the extremely wealthy. Today, there is more processing power in a smart phone than there was in a super computer during the 20th century. As a result of this rise in quality and demand of technology, scientists are beginning to adapt it into different areas of society. Cars and housing were the first to be effected with new media systems that people can watch films on and surf the internet, and alarm systems that can identify a person from just seeing their face. Now as the nanotechnology has progressed even further, the medical industry is becoming a very important branch of it. New nanotechnologies are being tested every day in the medical industry to try and eliminate the epidemics and life threatening conditions of the modern world.
The principles of nanotechnology are simple in that it is trying to cure illnesses by creating alternate and more effective methods of introducing medicine into the targeted cells in the human body. This can be done in many ways and there are many varieties of nanotechnology in medicine. Current nanotechnologies are attaching drugs for treating cancer used in chemotherapy (that would usually have to be taken in through a drip and effect all the cells that they come in contact with) onto tiny proteins that are 1 billionth of a meter in size (hence the name Nano) that are attracted to the sites of tumours or cancerous cells. This means that the treatment is much more focussed which makes it more effective, less damaging to healthy cells and possibly most importantly in the future, cheaper because it means that less of the drugs need to be used which means that more people can be treated by the same volume of medicine that would previously cure one person. In the future, scientists will have developed tiny Nano robots that can be programmed to fight illnesses. This is in its early stages but it is a very promising prospect for world health and the elimination of the current epidemics.
As a relatively new branch of medicine, it has been welcomed by some people but rejected by others. This is due to the bad reputations that it has got from the film and sci fi industry. Where nanotechnology in the case of G.I Joe Rise of The Cobra is used for world terror and used to both control people (turning them into mindless robots) and completely change their looks and the way they think as a person. However this is not what any of the nanotechnology in medicine of today and tomorrow are trying to do.
zoe weingarten
Tom Probert
Jessica Gadd
Alberto TG
Matthew Bailey
listd
Is Tiger Woods the Greatest Golfer Ever?
It is widely proclaimed that Tiger Woods can only be matched in terms of ability by Jack Nicklaus, the man with a record 18 major championship wins. I have found statistics, facts and a range of sources to help me find the tie breaker between the two giants in the game of golf. I have put together a website, illustrating Tiger Woods’ illustrious career and early life and using it to depict how he towers over all the big names in the history of golf.
Jack Nicklaus has been watching Tiger since Tiger was a teen, winning numerous junior golf championships and setting records from day one. Nicklaus was and is Tiger’s idol; Tiger still tries to mold his golf in the image of Jack. In many ways I regard Jack as the greatest gentleman ever in the game of golf due to his tremendous fortitude and grace in defeat. I also respect the way he has taken Tiger under his wing and his hoping for Tiger to beat his major record.
Tiger Woods has undoubtedly dominated the game of golf, having a ten-year spell at being the number one golfer in the world, more than double of the previous record of four-years, held by Greg Norman. Tiger had an 81% win rate per season in his prime, an astounding record to have, thus showing how he dominated the golfers of his generation.
Woods has overtaken Nicklaus in terms of winning rate and financial success although he has only had half of the career length that Nicklaus had, as he is not finished with the task at hand to overtake Jack’s major feat.
Even though Jack has more major wins, Woods has beaten him in every other category there is such as scoring records in every major, his cumulative wins on the PGA Tour and their statistics on and around the greens.
I feel that the best way to compare Tiger to Jack is by using Tiger’s current statistics and compare them to Jack’s statistics at Tiger’s age (37 years) Tiger had shadowed Jack on the PGA tour by tournaments won with 77 against Jack’s 66 wins. There was a tie on majors won at the age of 37, both of them with 14 in the bag. This means that they were tied in terms of major winning% with 23.3, illustrating that they had an outstanding average of around 1 major per year. But Jack showed that he was more consistent in majors with 13 consecutive top 10s to Tigers 8 consecutively. Tiger was still the more dominant in PGA Tour events, by being the tour money leader on 9 different occasions to Jack’s 8.
In 2001, Tiger Woods conquered the world of golf with what was called the Tiger Slam. In golf there are 4 majors per year and if someone were to win all of those titles in one year, it is called the Grand Slam of Golf. Tiger nearly did it in one year by winning 3 of the majors, but unfortunately he couldn’t win the 4th, however the following year, he won the first major, meaning he won all for majors in a 12 month period, thus it was named the Tiger Slam. No one else in the history of the game has accomplished anything like this.
jack ingall
Michael Calvey
Jonny Laxton
Jonny Laxton discusses what influences our musical preferences and how these develop with age.
We all listen to music. We all have our favourite genres, we all have a favourite song. But why do we like the genres that we do, and dislike others? What influences us to choose the music that we listen to? There are many different explanations and reasonings for this, and after reading this article, maybe you will be able to realise why you love the music that you love, and why you hate the music that you hate.
Musical preference has been studied by many music psychologists and musicologists on many different levels, including genres, personality and musical characteristics. As music is such an influential and persuasive element in everyone's live, it is strange how it is still a complete mystery to us why we prefer different types of music.
One of the main reasons for this is sense of mystery, is because music is used for many different reasons in our lives, and the music that we listen to is drastically affected by our mood at that time. We listen to different music at different times, with different people and in different places. For example, when with friends, one is more likely to listen to more mainstream music, that is popular amongst the majority of people of your age, so to avoid embarrassing oneself with an unpopular song. Ostensibly, this shows how when in different company, one is much more likely to mitigate their own tastes in music to that of others around them. Furthermore, the time of day hugely affects the genre of music we listen to. Music in the morning tends to be 'up-beat', compared to late night music, is usually more calm and soothing. All of these different factors have a knock on affect on what music we listen to.
As a young child, the music that is played is chosen by your parents. This music usually consists of baby mozart, lullabies and other soft soothing music. It is not until you develop the ability to make decisions for yourself that you can decide which music you play, which in turn, can lead to having your own opinions about which music you like, and also what you dislike.
The main influences that affect our musical preference is our social situation. The music that we hear being played is frequently being played by our peers, and the affect this has on our own musical preference is beyond our jurisdiction. The emotional attachment we have towards music can be very similar to love. They both affect the same part of the brain-the emotional system. Even though usually this is one of the slowest acting parts of the brain, it can sometimes completely overwhelm our mind. When one is strongly in love with someone, it completely takes over them, all they can think about is this person and all they want is this person. This can also happen in music, when you like a piece, or a certain artist, one may want to play that music over and over. This process can engulf all of us in an adoration of that particular piece of music, when it comes in contact with our emotional system.
Research conducted at Western Oregon University shows that the music we listen to is directly linked to our social identity. It shows that the music that we listen to around friends in social situations tends to be of a more conventional style, with the more conservative people and others use it as a means of expressing themselves. The different types of people that one mixes with has a 'significant' impact in relation to ones musical preference. As an example, if one is in an antisocial "gang" the general music that they will listen to will be rap, dubstep and other such like music, in comparison with a "gothic" group in which they will listen to heavy metal and rock. In these circumstances music is used as a representation device to represent a social group. Furthermore, many people relate different genres with different stereotypes: classical-posh, rap-gangster, heavy metal-goth. These stereotypical assumptions are based on the music which is often played around these social groups. Everyone is connected to one or other social group and this largely does affect the music that they listen to.
The development of our musical tastes as we get older, is another question which has eluded the minds of many musicologists and music physiologists for many years. Research into this subject by Dr. Holbrook of Columbia University, explains the connection between the music that one listens to at age 18-21 and that which they listen to as an adult. When they first reach maturity the music that is played seems to be that which they enjoy for the rest of their lives. This is because this age is the most influential age of our life, according to this research and so the music that trending whilst at university and when going to parties, clubs etc. is usually what forms your musical tastes for the rest of your life.
In conclusion, the reasons that all of us have different musical preferences is because of our different social backgrounds, social groups and our emotional responses. These three powerful influences have a definitive affect on the types of music that we like and those that we dislike.
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