Guidelines For A Position Paper

Good evening. This is to remind you and inform you about some aspects concerning the end of our course. I have already graded and sent you all the written works about our first task. If you have any doubt or question about your grade, please do not hesitate to write to me. I will take the final workshops, already graded, to Marcela tomorrow. Do not hesitate to contact me if any question or problem with the grade. Since some of you were interested in copying “Language Learneing Strategies”, by Rebecca Oxford, I will leave the book for one week at Portafolio. You may ask for copies, not for the original. Finally, please remember that the due date for the position paper is this coming Friday. Here are some guidelines you should remember. Choose a topic from the ones seen in the course First paragraph introduce your work: what the reader is going to read about, and state what your position will be or what point you want to make about the topic. Second and third paragraphs: Talk about the topic. Give a theoretically based background of what you want to talk about. Forth and fith paragraphs: make your point. State what you want to say about the topic. You may talk about practical applications, give examples from your teaching experience or make an informed criticism about any theory studied. Sixth paragraph conclusion: summarize what you have said so far and close the paper