Today I go to the Weblearn page and find some links that help me about the writing essays and doing seminar. I found some useful exercises about thatin the weblearn of the university
this help me to practise about the using of linking word in the essays and show me more about the ways to taking note during the lecture.
http://weblearn.londonmet.ac.uk/webct/urw/lc4130011.tp0/cobaltMainFrame.dowebct

I also find this to help me understand the contruction of the introduction for the essay, that is a part of the works I have to do in this month.

The introduction of the essay

The function of the Introduction is to serve as a 'map' of the essay, outlining to your reader the main argument and points which you develop in your essay. Most introductions begin with an orientation in the form of a brief general statement that leads the reader into the topic showing how the specific topic relates to bigger issues or to the discipline field. This is followed by your thesis statement, which is your concise response to the essay question, then an outline of the argument presented in the essay. You may find it useful to think of an essay's introduction as funnel shaped ­ moving from the general to the specific. Here is an example:

Essay Question: Italy on the eve of 1860 has often been described as an unlikely nation. Why?

Self-Study

1. Analyse own language abilities and needs:

I feel that my weakest areas are vocabulary, reading and speaking. I find difficult in studying new words, I try to learn some words but by the time I don’t usually use that words, I forget them. Moreover, when my vocabulary is the weakest point, the reading, speaking and listening is not good enough but by listening people around me speak English everyday, my listening is not as bad as speaking and reading. I think there is one way to solve my weakness is try to read more books about the subject which I’m going to do in the university and try to find as many new words as possible.



2. TV/radio listening

I saw the movie about the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance in the website http://www.bbc.co.uk, that was an really big festival to remembrance the people who participated in the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. The programme gave me some of the clip that tell some story of the armies in that area. Some of them came through the really dangerous moment in their life to live but a lot of people were not lucky like that. I think that festival are really nice because it remind us in the people were died in the wars.




3. Academic vocabulary gap maker:

I went to the website http://nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/ awlgapmaker.htm and paste some academic texts in to the box and I get 1 paragraph like this:

Leadership in Organizations has a specific focus on managerial leadership in large organisations and is an attempt at bridging the gulf between academics and management practitioners. However, as each chapter begins with a list of learning objectives, the bias appears to tend towards a more academic audience (particularly students of the subject), rather than towards practising managers.

The author covers a broad survey of theory and research of leadership in formal organisations of the last 50 years, and though Yukl states that the book “focuses on the 20 per cent of literature that appeared to be the most relevant and informative”, he has provided an in-depth and comprehensive analysis and appraisal of that literature in a clear and moderately accessible language. From the first, introductory, chapter about the nature of leadership, Yukl writes what is essentially an academic text, but with a clarity accessible to a practising manager with a serious interest in the subject area.