Day 10: Achieving Coherence

Objectives
Students will be able to

• Identify the three types of information in an EAP (English for Academic Purposes) essay: known, new and old.
• Describe healthy paragraph patterns.
• Understand the relationship of the communication model to KNO - specifically how coherence can assist in making intention match perception.
• Analyze paragraph patterns and diagnose problems.  Devise a plan for revision based on the diagnosis of a paragraph's patterns. 
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I. Review P.I.E.
   a. exercise
   b. Self-Assessment and Revision

Assess your own writing regarding the use of PIE  in your most recent essay (the Diagnostic Essay). Do the same highlighting activity, by identifying each of the 4 parts in your paragraphs. You may find that you are lacking Explanation, or you don’t have any Closing Sentences!  Be sure to ask about any problems you are having.

II.  Identify types of information in an essay: known, new, and old (KNO)
video 1
or use this link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbUc2C_begw
video 2
or use this link:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqTaGBOS-3k

PowerPoint

Exercise
key

Homework:
a) Finish your analysis of the diagnostic essay about P.I.E. Structure. 
b) Review the materials on Known, New, and Old Information (KNO). There is a clean copy of the exercise featured in video 2 in case you want to go over it again.
c) Check your paragraphs in the diagnostic essay for coherence using KNO information. Use different colors to distinguish K from N and O.
 

 
Sources:
Lesson created by  Susan Faivre, Adapted by Nyssa Bulkes & Lynee Lawson, Spring 2013.