This lesson began by looking at another writing by John Sutherland, only this time we were analysing a text that we were going to have to do our first essay on, which of course made everyone slightly nervous! As we had already previously studied one of his texts it did make analysing his writing style slightly easier. Most of the class by now recognised that he gave a lot of background information to his subject so that anyone reading it would understand his point of view, when he got to it! Although I think, especially for myself, as the thesis statement in this essay was not as obvious, many people were worried that they would not be able to find it when they came to do their essay!
The class then moved on to an article 'The Role of English in Research and Scholarship.' by Swales and Feak. Again we were analysing the structure of the text. For me, this was slightly easier as I did recognise that there were different sections within the text that differed to each other. These sections we found out were: Background, Problem, Solution and Evaluation. In our groups we then had to summarise this text in 50 words, which was a lot harder I found than the first part. The three of us did eventually managed to summarise it! However it did show me that cutting down texts is just as hard as bulking up any text that you may have, for example an essay that needs to be handed in!
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