Assignment 5

Review on assignments 3 & 4.

When I chose my own assignment, I first looked in the book Academic Writing. I saw one exercise that I thought was good and picked out a few things and made it my own. I think it became a good exercise, two people picked my assignment. Those two (Andreas and Emma) did a good job and it turned out as I planned it.

The assignment was to write a problem solving text based upon an authentic problem or a “made up” problem. I think it is good to work on that type of writing and it can also quite fun!

The assignment that I picked then, I am going to be honest about that one. I was running out of time and the ones that I would like to pick were already taken, so the one that I had to do was not my first or second choice. I picked one about describing a normal day in my life, I couldn´t do it as “academic” and formal as I wanted, it was quite hard and it didn´t turn out as good as I wanted.

Considering that, I learned more about formulating my own instead of having to pick one “just because”, but that was also my own fault. I should have picked the one I wanted immediately.

But overall, I was a great exercise to formulate your own assignment were you had to consider a lot of things!

Assignment 4

I have picked Johan K´s assignment:

One typical day in Frida´s life

Now I am going to tell you about one typical day in Frida´s life. She usually awakes at 8:30, unless she is supposed to go to the University, then she awakes at 6:30. When she has arisen from her bed she goes to the coffeemaker and put it on. She cannot begin her day without her coffee.

When the coffee has ran down her throat she is ready to start her day. She usually spend some time in front of the computer, she will have a look at the latest Internet updates, reads the News and so on.

Then it is time to study, there is always something to do so she studies a couple of hours. Then there is lunchtime, she usually eats something light for lunch, like a tuna salad or something similar.

After lunch she sometimes visits her local gym and do some exercise. After the gym session it is afternoon and soon to be evening. In the evenings, Frida does spend some time in the sofa watching Television and also in front of the Computer.

This is what a typical day in Frida´s life looks like, unless she spends it at the University!

Comments : I have avoided to write " I do" or "I like" because that is informal. So that´s why I have written about myself in a 3rd person, not because I have delusions of grandeur:) (=storhetsvansinne)

Assignment 3

Here is my assignment for you ;

You are going to write a proposal to solve a problem of your own choice. It could be a nature problem, a school problem, society problem or something else that you think you know how to solve.

You have two choices on how to write this;

1) An actual authentic problem that you know of and that is bothering you. Think realistic on this one, don´t write something that can´t be done in reality. Maybe you have solved an actual problem and would like to write about that as a help to other people in the same situation that you were in ?

Or,

2) Just be creative and come up with a problem that you can write about. In this case you don´t have to be realistic and think about what actually can be done. Money and material is not a problem in this case, you have a neverending amount of this at your disposal. Think big and be creative!

Guidelines:

* Times New Roman 1, 5
*Approximately 250-300 words
* Be encouraging!

Good Luck! // Frida