links for EAP teachers
This entry was created in response to a student writing:
In this essay, it will first point out…
The re-usable link is https://ske.li/in_this_essay_i, and it looks a bit like this:
Clearly this pattern isn’t just confined to ‘essays’. Here’s a link which doesn’t just include the word ‘essay’ https://ske.li/in_this__i_will – it looks like this:
Another possibility would be this link https://ske.li/this_essay_i, which looks like this:
This link was created in response to a student writing
This paper will … make discussion on
The link is https://ske.li/essay_will_discuss and looks like this:
This link was created in response to a student writing:
This essay would state the benefits grammar teaching might bring
The link is https://ske.li/essay_will_conc and looks like this:
The link above shows a range of verbs co-occurring with this essay will. But this doesn’t indicate which verbs are most often used. Here’s a link that does this https://ske.li/essay_will_freq. It looks like this:
However this is a common way of introducing the purpose of other pieces of writing, not just essays, which means it attracts other types of error too such as this one:
This report will outline promoting children’s….
A first re-usable link, which focuses on the use of outline, is https://ske.li/will_outlinec, and it looks a bit like this:
A second link involving a reference to a wider range of genres is https://ske.li/essayreport_willv and looks like this:
