Familiarize yourself with APA 6 referencing by going to the Auckland University links and clicking on APA or APA 6 wherever it appears on the following pages:
http://www.cite.auckland.ac.nz/3_1.html
http://www.cite.auckland.ac.nz/2_1_5.html
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) app for your smartphone, if you have one, is a very convenient mobile dictionary which will help you with checking your spelling. This is not mandatory - just a suggestion.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) app for your smartphone, if you have one, is a very convenient mobile dictionary which will help you with checking your spelling. This is not mandatory - just a suggestion.
NZQA links to the Achievement Standard AS91106 - 2.9B:
These links are your guidelines for the English 2.9 Reading Log in which you make personal responses to texts you have read.
2.9 READING LOG
The 2.9 Reading log requires personal responses to six
texts. Four must be written and the
remaining two may be visual, oral or written.
Writing a personal
response to your first research article.
You are required to form developed, personal responses to independently read texts, supported by evidence. Express your viewpoint on the
text. Respond to links between the text
and self (such as personal contexts and prior knowledge), and respond to links
between the text and the world (such as connections with knowledge, experience,
ideas and imagination from social, cultural, literary, political, or historical
contexts). Your personal responses must
be reasoned, clear, and relevant. It is desirable
that these personal responses also demonstrate understandings that are insightful
and/or original.
This exercise means that you are expressing your personal
opinion about the text you have read.
Features that will be expected are the use of personal pronouns in the
first person, language features used for effect and that there is a link to
wider society.
While you read the article, highlight/underline relevant points
and quotes. Make brief summary notes on
the side of relevant sections from this highlighting. Finally, make bullet points and plan your
thoughts logically. Now you are ready
for writing.
