BCS 151

1. STAGES IN WRITING AN ACADEMIC ESSAY

Planning

Research

Organising

Composing

Revising and editing

(Know what is involved in each stage)

2. EXPLAIN THE FOLLOWING TERMS

SELF AWARENESS - Knowing yourself or knowing who you are. Know your strength.

SELF PERCEPTION – The picture you have of yourself. Have a good picture about yourself.

SELF ACCEPTANCE - Love yourself as you are

3. FACTORS THAT SHAPE AN INDIVIDUAL'S VALUES

Family Type or values of your family holds

Type of school you went to

Social media

Religious Organisation

4. LEANING STILES IN BCS

Auditory

Practical

Visual

5. FIVE THINGS STUDENTS NEED TO MANAGE THEIR TIME

Set goals

Set priorities

Set a time plan

Manage interruptions (Time wasters)

6. THE THREE SECTIONS OF AN ESSAY

Introduction

Main body

Conclusion

7. SOURCES OF SELF ESTEEM FOR ADOLESCENTS

Approval from Friends

Approval from family

8. ITEMS A WRITER SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE HIS OR HER ESSAY

Author

Year of publication

Title

Publishing Information

9. SOURCES OF INFORMATION

Primary Source (e.g. interviews)

Secondary Source (Library resources, Internet)

10. TESTS FOR EFFECTIVE WRITING

CLARITY - your essay should be logical & Coherent.

COURTEOUS - you should be polite

COMPLETE – Include all the essential information

CONCISE - use few words as possible

11. TYPES OF ACADEMIC WRITTINGS

EXPOSITION - It is used to inform or explain.

ARGUMENTATIVE - To persuade a reader to accept a point of view

NARRATIVE - to tell the reader what happened

12. AIMS OF WRITING ESSAYS

To communicate information to others

To clarify to others what you think you Know

To persuade others to accept your point of view

To challenge other people's thinking and to stimulate debate

13. WHAT DO MARKERS LOOK FOR

Complete and accurate response to a question

Understanding of relevant issues related to the question

Ability to write clearly and logically

14. POOR WRITING

Poor grammar

Weak reasoning and arguments

Poorly punctuated work

Inability to cite sources correctly.

15. TYPES OF ACTIVITIES

HIGH VALUE (Find Examples)

MEDIUM VALUE (Find Examples)

LOW VALUE (Find Examples)

16. WRITING INVOLVES

Planning a writing strategy

Communicating ideas clearly and logically

Effectively gathering evidence and using Sources correctly.

Analytical skills
17. TIME DIVISION

Committed time: Spent on activities of primary goals

Maintenance time: Spent on maintaining your life

Discretionary time: Spent on activities you consider vital

18. REASONS STUDENTS FAIL

Poor study skills and habits

Lack of time management

Lack of motivation

Spending a lot of time on law value activities

Inability to handle university freedom

19. REASONS STUDENTS TO FAIL GRADUATE

Lack of effort and time spent studying

Failure to attend classes regularly

Failure to ask for help early

Poor communication Skills (poor reading & writing)

Procrastination

20. TIME MANAGEMENT

It refers to the process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time
spent on specific activities to increase effectiveness, efficiency or Productivity.

21. HOW WE EVALUATE THE SOURCES OF INFORMATION.

Know if the Author is an expert in that field.

Date of publication it should be the latest publication.

Know the intended readers

Who is the publisher? It must be a well known publisher.

Place of publication
22. THINGS CONTENT TO CONSIDER WHEN WRITING AN ESSAY

(RESEARCH)

23. ACADEMIC SKILLS INCLUDE

UNDESTANDING UNIVERSITY LEARNING

• Managing your time, • Preparing for lectures

• Study Skills and learning strategies.

IMPROVING YOUR ACADEMIC WORK

PREPARING YOUR ASSIGNMENTS

RESEARCHING AND EVALUATING INFORMATION

24. TYPES OF MINUTES

VERBATIM MINUTES

MINUTES OF RESOLUTION

MINUTES OF NARRATION

(RESEARCH)

25. Time Management Strategies

Set goals

Set priorities

Set a time plane

Manage interruptions

Overcome procrastination

26. How to write Assignments (Three things to consider)

Content

Structure
Referencing

27. When writing an exam you think about three things which are?

Format

Style

Content

28. Name the three parts of an academic essay.

Introduction

Main body

Conclusion

29. A good Dictionary records?

Orthographic Spelling (Bread, Brave, Brain)

Phonetic spelling (bred/breiv/brein)

Word History (Etymology)

Word class/Part of speech

30. Words you need to know what they mean (Mr. Kasongo wants at least 4 examples for
each)

Homonyms – Words that have the same form but different meanings. Write and Right, Hit and
Heat further more Cell and Sell. (NB: In simpler terms these are words that are said or spelled
the same way but differ in meaning)

Synonyms – Words that have the same meaning as another word or nearly the same meaning.
E.g. Huge, Big and Large are synonyms.

Homophones – Words pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. Hole and
whole, by and buy further more tall and toe.
Antonyms – The opposite of another word. True and false are antonyms, as well as off and on.

Compounding – The putting together of two or more words to form a new word e.g. under and
ground to form Underground.

Clipping – The shortening of a longer word, often reducing it to one syllable. Telephone (phone),
Mathematics (Math), Robot (Bot)

Prefixes – a letter or a group of letters added at the beginning of a word in order to form a
different word. Possible (Impossible), Able (Unable),

Suffixes - a letter or of a group of letters added at the end a word which makes a new word.

31. Run on sentence When two or more complete sentences are connected improperly

E.g. I love to write papers I would write one every day if I had the time.

Sentence 1: I love to write papers.

Sentence 2: I would write one every day it i had the time.

32. Comma splices

A comma splice is when two Complete Sentences are joined with just a comma

Participants could leave the study at anytime, they needed indicate their preference

Sentence 1: Participants could leave the study at any time.

Sentence 2: They needed to indicate their preferences

33. A SENTENCE

This is a group of words that express a complete thought / idea

34. TO MAKE SENSE A SENTENCE MUST HAVE

A subject

A predicate

35.
OTHER THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

1. THE SQ3R READING TECHNIQUE

2. HOW PRAGIARISM OCCURS

3. UNDERSTAND LETTER WRITING

4. THE FOUR POINT PLAN

5. WRITING A MEMO

6. WRITING MINUTES

7. WRITING A LETTER

8. WRITING SHORT REPORTS

9. WRITING NOTICES

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