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13. Develop your writing skills
Essay structure
10937NAT New Diploma of English Proficiency Class Nadine Schoen
Essay structure
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Completion requirements
Aspects of the essay:
Essay structure
Beginning the essay
Developing a thesis
Topic sentences
Counter arguments
Transitioning
Ending the essay
Harvard College W C: Beginning your essay
Beginning the academic essay
◄ Oral Presentations: Dealing with Q and A
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Gathu Mawula
Acknowledgement statements
Acknowledgement of Country
Announcements
First Nation stories by Kaurna Elder Michael Kumatpi Marrutya O'Brien
Nads and Nick Day Diploma Semester 2 2023
Dippies meeting 28 Jan
Evening Student yearly timetables
Academic study skills
Excellent Study skills and resources from UniSA
Basic marking/correction codes
Oshima Marking codes with examples
Student Feedback survey, 2022
Emergency Evacuation video
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Aboriginal Studies materials
John Pilger documentaries on Aboriginal issues
What is a monument doing to us?
Child Removal and the Department of Child Protection
Deaths in custody
Alcohol Issues
Elliott Johnston QC - Aboriginal deaths in custody
Aboriginal Issues Public Lectures - Flinders University
Indigenous Language Map
Aboriginal Education
Discrimination - What you do and what you are, are two different things!
NITV
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flags
For the Term of His Natural Life - book
Bruce Pascoe on Aboriginal culture and history
Rebutting the myths about First Nations Peoples
Constitutional Thinking
Babakiuaria
Northern Territories Intervention - 'Our Generation' doco
Brisbane Blacks First Nations online magazine
88 Documentary Aboriginal walk for rights
Creative Spirits website and resources
Yunupingu interview and song 'Treaty'
Listen to: National Indigenous Radio Service
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
NAIDOC at Flinders University Semester 2 2014
Treaty Republic
The Stringer - Gerry Georgatos
Jeff McMullen
ABC IVIEW 'Unlucky Australians'
Australia's First Nations Peoples Culture
Archie Roach performs 'Took the children away'
The Monthly 'The Brutal Truth' by Tony Roberts Nov 2009
More documentary and drama films on topics of racism and oppression
Homelessness Issues for First Nations peoples
Support materials for your report topics
Support links for topics
Constructing graphs tables and diagrams Sept 2017
Guide to practical reports Sep 2017
Monash Uni Features-of-reports
Monash University writing-a-report (1)
University of Newcastle Report-Writing
UniSA Report writing guide
Reports - Using headings in your writing June 2020
Houghton Mifflin Company: Sample Report
DIPLOMA DAY/EVE 2021 Units and assessment tasks
Australian Constitution 2020
Analyse cultural contexts pack
What happens to refugees when they arrive?
Dumb, Drunk and Racist
TED Lectures on Cultural Transitions
Trevor Noah Comedian
Counterculture
Subcultures
DIPLOMA DAY/EVE 2021 Units and assessment tasks
Support links for topics
How to run commitee meetings
Jerry Lewis and Family guy send ups of meetings
DIPLOMA DAY/EVE 2021 Units and assessment tasks
All things pronunciation
Pron (dividing speech into units)
Pronunciation Support Materials
Pronunciation videos and support materials for Asian students
Use highly complex grammar
Systemic Functional Grammar
Vocabulary builder - Purple page
Grammar and vocabulary for cause and effect
Academic writing skills
Book on passives/nominalisation
Learning to write correctly
Guide to punctuation
Rules for 'articles'
Verbs verbs verbs
Grammar and vocabulary for contrast
Book of infinitives
This, that, these, those
Rules for prepositions
Effect vs Affect
Countables and uncountables
Spotting the bias in media
General & New General Service List (GSL)
Rhetorical devices writ large
Discrimination in the workplace
Academic wordlists
Concordances
Alternative newspapers
Figurative Language
WB Yeats
Shakespeare
Slinky Malinki youtube video
Word roots etymonline
Vocabulary Builders
Weasel Words
Collocations
jacob-the-great student worksheet
End of Story article and comprehension questions
Confusing words and homophones
Speed reading activities
Doublespeak, critical thinking and politics
'The Woman Question'
2021 Diploma Day/Eve Class units/tasks
Note Taking Skills
Note taking symbols and abbreviations
Environmental Issues
The Prison System (Correctional Services)
TED Lectures
'Class Act' ABC Radio 2018 series of 4 podcasts on class
TED Ideas worth listening to
Foreign Correspondent
Environmental issues
Climate strike students speak out
Adelaide Climate Change Discussion Group
The issue of asbestos
To vaccinate or not to vaccinate
Coca Cola scandal documentary
John Pilger
Four Corners
Naomi Klein
Joseph Stiglitz
Mental Health Issues ABC Radio interview
Late Night Live with Phillip Adams
John Pilger, Journalist and film maker
An interview with John PIlger on 'The War We Don't See'
Julian Assange
Insight list of archive online debates
Top Documentary Films
SBS World News Australia
60 Minutes
Foreign Correspondent
SBS Dateline
Open Forum Academic Listening Activities
Multiculturally diverse topics
ABC Australian Story
ABC News 24
ABC News just in
ABC Health Report
Okham's Razor
Andrew Denton interview with Steve Irwin
John Pilger videos and articles
Catalyst
ABC Radio - The World Today with Eleanor Hall
ABC Radio Gonski Report
ABC 'One Plus One'
ABC Radio RN Life Matters
ABC Radio Books & Arts
Late Night Live with Phillip Adams
ABC News reports
ABC Radio National Science Show
Mongrel Nation - ABC Radio National
Off Track ABC radio National
ABC BIG IDEAS
ABC Background Briefing
Compathos TV - films for critical thinking
Public Intellectual interviews
Top Documentary Films
Documentary Heaven (all free documentaries to watch)
Discrimination in the workplace
2022 Assessments
The Linguistic Roadshow - Australian English
Australian English and some humour on Youtube
You know you are Australian when...
Struggle Street Episode 1 Worksheet
Struggle Street Episode 1
Classic Aussie Slang Phrases
Lingua Franca Resources
Public Intellectuals Profiles
Public Intellectuals List
Experimental Designs
Writing and understanding a Critical Review
Political Compass
Fallacies
Nizkor Fallacies
'Class Act' ABC Radio 2018 series of 4 podcasts on class
Direct TV and the Slippery Slope Fallacy
Fallacious Over 300 logical fallacies
Webspace Ship Fallacies
Can the media influence a jury?
Spotlight on jury room pressures
Jury trials to face major overhaul
Recognising media bias in a chart
Inequality Media
Sharon Beder: Free Market Missionaries
Critical Thinking.Org
Critical Thinking Resources
Socio Political comparisons
You Might Be a Marxist If...
Lectures Marxism Today
Political Parties and terminologies
David Harvey and Das Kapital class lectures
Naomi Klein - Shock Doctrine plus more
Radical Wollongong
The Story of Stuff
Power of Community - Cuba survived peak oil
The Dark Side of Chocolate
Detention Centres and Refugee Issues
Films For Action
Paulo Friere 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'
Coal seam gas
Women of Steel
How to debate and speak brilliantly
Oral Presentations: Dealing with Q and A
'Formal' paragraph from class
Make writing formal (two more activities)
Contrast clause patterns
Contrast sentences
Compare Contrast essay writing and activities
Cause and Effect essay writing and activities
Cause and Effect
English For Everyone
Persuasive language techniques
Techniques for writing better
Write extended explanation or argument essay
Health vocabulary quizes
Medical English Support Links
Doctors Speak Up
Health Navigator
Medical language/vocabulary
Construction site links
Nick's Bridging Diploma class Grammar oral presentations
Unit and Assessment Outline
Week 1: 1 & 3 Feb
Week 2: Tue 8 & Thu 10 Feb
Week 3 Tue 15 Feb & Thu 17 Feb
Week 4 Tue Feb 22 & Thu Feb 24
Week 5 Tue 1/3 & Thu 3/3
Week 6 Tue 8 & Thu 10 Mar
Week 7 Tue 15 & Thu 17 Mar
Week 8 Tue 22 & Thu 24 Mar
Week 9 Tue 29 Mar & Thu 31 Mar
Week 10 Tue 5 Apr & Thu 7 Apr
Week 12 Tue 3 May & Thu 5 May
Week 13 Tue 10 May & Thu 12 May
Week 14 Tue 17 & Thu 19 May
Week 17 Tue 7 & Thu 9 June
Assessment Schedule
Public Intellectual Student Choices
Bridging Diploma class
Diploma Day Timetable Term 3 - 2022
Nad's and Nick's Day Diploma collaborate sessions 2022
Nads's tutorial recording Term 1 & 2 Semester 1 2022
Steale's & Nick's Evening Diploma class 2022
Eve Dip S2 T4 2022 Schedule
Evening Timetable
Explore Australian English Usage NAT10937004
Analyse Australian Cultural Contexts
Evening Diploma Semester 2 Term 3 Lesson Plans
Weekly Lesson Plans
Term 1 Mon: Communicate Collaboratively in Formal Contexts
Term 1 Wed: Listen to Highly Complex Texts
Term 2 Apply and evaluate own skills in spoken discourse
Term 2 NAT10937006 Present at Academic or Professional Seminars
Evening Diploma Schedule 2023-2024
Term 3 NAT10937007 Read and Analyse Academic and Professional Texts
Term 3 NAT10937010 Use highly complex grammar
Class Norms
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