Beautifuls,
you will be writing the start of piece one in Mondays lesson in C108 and piece two in the classroom on Tuesday (you will start piece two on Tuesday no matter how far you have/have not got with piece one).
Check your style models with me if you have not already and fill in the coursework APF table in your blue booklets (put a brief description of your content as you will not yet know your title).
Next, closely annotate your style model a) identifying all the conventions of the form (e.g. headline, strapline, picture, caption etc. for newspaper articles) and b) idenifying the effective techniques used by that particular writer. You should use terminology (ask me if you are not sure what a technique is called) and consider effects on the target audience. If you can, show how techniques work together to achieve effects.
Identify all the techniques you want to include and relate them to the content you have chosen on a plan. You could do the plan as a layout diagram of the text, bullet points or a spidergram or any other method you desire. I think that the layout plan helps you show where in the text you would use particular techniques and what for. The plan can be really scruffy but it does go into your coursework folder, along with your annotated style model, to show that you created the piece from scratch, inspired by your style model (using the techniques from it, as well as any others you choose, and adapting them to your chosen piece - your content may be very different and may demand careful consideration of techniques you could use to suit it to the APF).
Check out the student guide to Turnitin, which gives further information about plagiarism as well as how to post and check your own piece before the deadline:
http://moodle.stbrn.ac.uk/mod/book/view.php?id=1009
Then start writing piece one (don't forget to keep a bibliography of the sources you use, if you use any - you should submit the bibliography too when you post the pieces to Turnitin on our Moodle page under Creating Texts). Remember the deadline is 11.55pm Friday for both pieces and any late pieces will not be given feedback except for convincing extenuating circumstances (missing a lesson does not count). I will also not mark pieces that have not been proofread and edited to a good standard but I will mark pieces that are too short if you do not have time to write 500 words, although longer pieces should not be submitted (please keep under 550 words) - the feedback will be very limited in the case of short pieces but would be better than none at all, so polish carefully what you have and submit it on Moodle to the Turnitin assignment under ENGB2, Creating texts, "Halla's class: 500 words of pieces 1&2" You can submit your piece early, see what it highlights as being copied from an internet source, and, if you have forgotton the reference all of it in your bibliography (which you should also post if you have used sources), you can re-submit an improved version up until the deadline and the old piece will be written over.
Since we have not used Turnitin before, you should post pieces and bibliographies to your blogs too, just in case.
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