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This assignment, which is made up of five tasks, relates to your study of the readings and activities associated with it. It represents 20% of the overall continuous assessment score.
The overall objective of this essay is to assess your skills of critical evaluation and argument on the basis of grammatical evidence.
You are required to write no more than 1,500 words, but you will also need to present some of your findings in graphical or tabular form. Please indicate at the end of your essay the number of words you have used.
• Task 1 (selection of text)
Choose 2 English compositions written by Arab students in the final year of secondary education in your country. Each one should be 150 words or longer, and the total number of words in the two compositions should be approximately 300-500 words.
You should expect to spend a reasonable amount of time selecting your texts, as your choice of text will potentially affect the quality of your answer. Do not be afraid to reject your initial choice if you come across something better, since you will inevitably have gained insights from the process of selection. However, you need to remember to leave yourself enough time to spend on the analysis of your chosen text.
• Task 2 (initial evaluation of a text’s weaknesses)
Read the texts several times and decide whether their weaknesses lie primarily in the way they have constructed interpersonal, textual or experiential meanings. You need to consider here the grammatical choices in relation to the context of the texts, in other words, to their:
• Field (for example, is the choice of lexis sufficiently technical and specialised or suitably commonplace and accessible?)
• Tenor (for example, does the lexicogrammar construct appropriate social roles and status for the writer?)
• Mode (for example, do the lexical and grammatical choices construe a well organised and structured text consistent with the mode and goal of the piece of writing or do they, for example, make the text too formal?)
. Audience, (i.e. the readers), are the texts addressed to general or specialist readers?
At this stage of the assignment you will only be developing an impression of the text’s overall patterns and weaknesses rather than carrying out a systematic analysis. You do not need to submit the notes that you make at this stage.
• Task 3 (detailed analysis of text)
(You may write up to 750 words on this part of the assignment, but you will also need to present some of your findings in graphical or tabular form.)
You now need to decide on one or two specific areas of grammar to focus on in order to carry out a comprehensive and systematic analysis. You should select those areas which you think will provide most insight into the text’s problems and which account for its lack of high level of communicative effectiveness. For example, you may think the grammar is construing an inappropriate tenor, with the writer sounding too chatty and friendly. You would then need to carry out a comprehensive analysis of key language features associated with tenor (e.g. pronoun use, ellipsis, speech function, colloquial lexis, contraction, forms of address, stance etc.). (On the issue of colloquial lexis, consult a good dictionary which shows judgements on formal and informal usage. Do not pass this kind of judgement without the help of a specialist grammar or dictionary.)
You may, on the other hand, decide that the main problem with each text is its lack of overall structure and therefore decide to analyse patterns of theme choice, including hyper- and macro- theme.
You will need to display the findings of your analysis in a way that is meaningful to your tutor. How precisely you do this is your decision and will, to an extent, depend on the technology you have at your disposal. For example you may use formatting or colour to underline or highlight certain choices within the text. You may also present your findings in table form and give counts of each finding.
• Task 4 (re-writing of text)
Based on the findings of your analysis, rewrite each text to make it more effective in the specific areas of grammar and lexis that you focused on.
• Task 5 (evaluation of re-writing)
(You should write at least 750 words on this part of the assignment, excluding your re-written text.)
Describe the nature of the changes you made, why you made them and how effective you think they are in improving the communicative effect of the texts. You must explain both the inappropriateness of the original texts and the replacements/revisions which you introduced to each.
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