Maths students of English 2 will not sit June 2021 exams. Instead, they will be evaluated by making an oral presentation through Webex – with cameras on – on a science-oriented topic. (You may choose from a wide range of areas of interest. Your topic should be relevant to your School of Technology & Engineering, while it can be possibly combined with topics taken from schools of different sciences, or even arts, as well.) The presentation should strictly last 10 minutes. Your first 5 minutes should focus on the presentation of your topic. The last 5 minutes should be based on a brief oral commentary of all elements of academic language that you have used in an essay (without a word limit) written by you on the same topic (coherence and cohesion devices, types of sentences, features of academic writing, topic sentence, controlling idea, primary and secondary supports, conclusion, method of development, pattern, sentence structure and sentence style). These elements should be demonstrated on the screen (you decide on your highlighting system, i.e., using different colours, initial letters, notes etc.). Helpful guidelines and links with respect to a successful presentation are provided through the blog. Try to be fluent, communicative and confident. Never just read your written work. Show that you are familiar enough with your topic and linguistic analysis. You should also refer to your sources and bibliography while applying the strategies of summarizing and paraphrasing, thus avoiding plagiarism. Try to produce your own written texts. Copying somebody else’s original work will be considered a fail. On your presentation day you are required to submit an electronic copy of your work. Your mark will be based on your oral performance of content and language. Presentations will take place in the first two weeks after Easter vacations. As for the exact dates of your presentation you will be informed in one of these days. You will be sent the available days and times through google docs, so that you could sign up. The same system will take place in September 2021 exams.
Your Instructor
Maria Koutraki (koutraki@uoc.gr; mjkoutraki@gmail.com)
