WEEK 8: NARRATIVE ESSAY WRITING (Isabel Martínez Puche)

Find out on the web 2 different links where narrative essay writing is explained and summarise the main characteristics. In which way is it different from discursive essay writing?

http://www.11trees.com/live/what-is-a-narrative-essay/

https://essayinfo.com/essays/narrative-essay/

Characteristics:

• is told from a particular point of view
• makes and supports a point
• is filled with precise detail
• uses vivid verbs and modifiers
• uses conflict and sequence as does any story
• may use dialogue
• Opening hook to get your audience interested or curious
• Sharply drawn characters
• Plot—that is, a chain of events with an interesting cause-and-effect dynamic
• Vivid sensory description of people, events, and settings
• Dialogue
• Tension
• Climax

In a discursive writing, an idea is discussed and proved to be right or wrong. For this reason, the vocabulary is usually very specific and formal, using facts to support the ideas of the writer.  However, a narrative writing focus more in entertaining its potential readers, using a more descriptive vocabulary and not necessarily providing facts.

WEEK 7: PERSUASION (Isabel Martínez Puche)

Find out expressions to express persuasion, different from the ones offered in the textbook.

I can guarantee…

I tell you, it’s a fact.

I tell you, it’s certain.

I am absolutely certain.

I saw it myself.

I can assure you…

It’s quite true.

It must be true.

Yes, really. It’s quite true.

Come on.

Give it a try.

Try them on.

You won’t regret it.

This is once in your lifetime, don’t waste it. 

Find a text on the Internet where a hypothesis is discussed and underline the expresions for hypothesising.

Enzymes catalyze reactions by lowering the activation energy of the reaction. Catecholase, an enzyme found in potatoes, converts catechol to benzoquinone in the presence of oxygen. It would be expected that more benzoquinone would be formed in the presence of a greater amount of catecholase. This hypothesis was supported by the results obtained. The most enzyme was placed in tube 2. The absorbance was also highest for this tube. This means that the most product was formed in this test tube. In accordance with this, tube four, which had the least amount enzyme, also had the least amount of absorption. There were some unexpected results, but this is most probably due to human error; the absorbance levels were probably read wrong. Enzymes are affected by the environment. The pH level of the environment is one factor that can alter enzymes. The rate at which the enzyme form product is slowed or sped up depends on how close to the norm the environment is. In the second experiment, the pH of the medium was different in each of the test tubes. The general trend seen in these reactions was that the more acid added to the test tubes, the less product formed. The more acidic solution caused the enzyme to work less efficiently.

WEEK 6: TELLING THE TRUTH (Isabel Martínez Puche)

Browse the Net and find sites where lies are approached. make a list of the characteristics shown by a person who lies according to these websites.

Being natural performers
Being well prepared
Being original
Rapid thinking
Being eloquent
Good memory
Not experiencing guilt, fear, or delight
Good at acting
manipulativeness

experience

confidence.

intelligence. 

Retrieved from: 

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/18-attributes-of-highly-effective-liars/ 

https://workplacepsychology.net/2012/09/30/good-liars-their-characteristics-and-why-they-are-so-hard-to-detect/

Try to watch the film Liar, Liar and give your opinion on it. 

I think the film shows the importance of telling the truth and how difficult become to tell it when you are used to lie in a daily basis. For the protagonist of the film, the truth makes him realize that there are things more important than lying and his job: his family. Thanks to his son's birthday wish, the protagonist is able to end up living a happy life. All in all, the film's objective is to open people's eyes so they value what they have more and to show that there is no need to constantly lie all the time, truth is more powerful than lies.