Monday 30 August 2010

Applying for the TESOL Course - the essay

Laura and I spent the evening planning the essay question for our TESOL course application. The question is below:
Please HANDWRITE 500 words on a recent learning experience you have had; this could be academic / practical / personal / other. Describe the learning situation, methods, activities and techniques through which you learned and evaluate the outcome of the experience.
Laura chose to write about our the sushi-making course we attended a couple of weeks ago. I decided to write about the residential weekend for the college course I’d studied last year. Keeping to a 500-word limit wasn’t easy, nor was handwriting it. It wasn’t so much the physical act of writing that was challenging, it was the permanence that putting pen to paper implied. A word-processed world of CTRL + Z, or X, of C and V makes it very easy to write in a disorganised fashion, and then edit coherently. Paper is much less forgiving.

We ended the evening with two good drafts. Wearily, we agreed to stop, and to write up our work tomorrow. And then we slept.

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