Teaching Academic Skills at NAFA

This handout/worksheet is used to paragraph writing. Make a copy (you will need to sign in to your Google account first) or download to adapt as you wish.

This handout/worksheet is used to teach the structure of academic essays and the writing of thesis statements. Make a copy (you will need to sign in to your Google account first) or download to adapt as you wish.

By the end of this activity, learners should be able to transform a short, non-academic paragraph into a paragraph written in a academic style. They should also be able to list some important features of academic style. Please also see the class handout bookmarked separately. Adapted from Academic Writing: A Practical Guide for Students (Routledge) & Study Writing (CUP). Make a copy (you will need to sign in to your Google account first) or download to adapt as you wish.

This handout/worksheet is used to teach essay outlining. Make a copy (you will need to sign in to your Google account first) or download to adapt as you wish.

This site is based on a text written for the art history undergraduates of City College of New York. It contains useful tips that focuses on visual description, stylistic/iconographic/historical analysis, etc. There's also step by step guide on writing and research processes. What I like best is the sample student papers where, paragraphs by paragraphs, the author gives detailed comments, recommendations, and revisions. 

This handout/worksheet is used to teach cohesion. Make a copy (you will need to sign in to your Google account first) or download to adapt as you wish.

A couple good websites relating to writing history papers in music, just to add to our pool of language art resources that can be cross-applied: http://shaps.unimelb.edu.au/students/essay-guide/ http://arts.monash.edu.au/aallu/music_writing_guide.doc www.ams-net.org/ojs/index.php/jmhp/article/download/45/85 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/s3/resources/docs/essays_music.doc

This is an adaptation of HY's PPT. It is targeted at Y1 theatre / AME students towards the end of the 1st semester. It helps them distinguish between casual and academic writing.

Answers to the worksheet on quoting.

Superb quick resource that students can all go into as a class exercise for writing in the appropriate academic style (grammar, style of writing...)

This is the course outline for Level 1 Project for Y1 Performaing Arts students of AME.

Hi, here's my Outlining a Research Paper assignment. I colour coded the sections of the paper outline and included examples but have yet to complete.

This handout/worksheet was created to teach referencing, using NAFA Style.

Here's my Academic Style Assignment except for 2 slides: example of a text and revision to sound more academic

After reading about the importance of outlines, I've decided that outlines should be required for any writing above say 2500 words. They should also be marked. The attached rubric is marking outlines. It should have a weighting of 15% of the overall marks.

This was designed to teach summarising. With key.

This handout goes with the paraphrasing worksheet.

This handout/worksheet was created to teach paraphrasing. With key.