Introduction –
Explain what I am going to talk about
Say that both spoken language and text messaging are creative and say that it influences features that are in our lives today
Examples: the way we communicate with each other, how formal we are to certain individuals, new words created that are influenced by the way we text or speak
Point One –
Talk about the paralinguistic and linguistic features in spoken language and how they can add meaning and creativity to a conversation
Give examples of paralinguistic and linguistic features used while speaking
Say what effect these features have on a conversation and talk about why people do this
Examples: facial expression, gestures, body language, volume of voice
Point Two –
Talk about how text messaging has abbreviations or acronyms of spoken language and how people sometimes find it easier to talk with
Give examples of abbreviations and acronyms
Say why people do abbreviate words or phrases and the effect it has on the way people text
Examples: lol, brb, g2g, cya, k, ite, l8r
Generalise –
Talk about how spoken language and text messaging from youth affects the way everyone in the world writes
How creative text messaging and spoken language has become in the world
Examples: dialect, accent, words created, words that are used in specific cultures
Influences/Complex Idea –
Spoken language and text messaging both have features which are created and influenced by the other
Give examples – people say lol while speaking, emoticons come from facial expressions
Back it up with quotes or scenarios where someone would use them
Examples: emoticons, saying lol out loud,
Express My View –
Whether I think text messaging and spoken language are creative or not
Why I think they are creative
Conclusion –
Say where text messaging and spoken language will lead to
Summarise what I have talked about
October 17, 2012 at 3:38 pm
This looks like a good structure.
To write a developed answer, I recommend that you lift your thinking to cover the idea that speaking and texting contain creative SOLUTIONS to communication problems.
Texting has creative solutions to the need for brevity and the absence of voice and vision
Speaking is creative in the way it challenges us to make our communication with each other as rich and nuanced as it can possibly be – the visual and aural aspects of speaking add to, or undermine, the meaning of the words used.
Have a go at writing the topic sentences for each of your paragraphs to see if your ideas come out well in print.
CW
October 18, 2012 at 7:17 pm
This plan is now much improved. I like the quality and depth of the areas you’ve elected to discuss. Don’t forget, when you write it, to link all of this analysis to creativity as that’s the main question.
Areas that you may wish to investigate for final development:
1) Ensuring you have a bank of good examples to support these ideas
2) Making yourself confident you have sufficient skills in writing to fully develop the views you propose here.
Both of these can be confirmed as part of your preparation and I suggest you include some examples on this blog so I can verify that all is well.
CW
October 19, 2012 at 11:42 pm
This plan has developed into something that literally excites me. I’m looking forward to reading your final work as it promises to be an excellent, highly developed piece of analysis.
Do take the opportunity to do a little practise writing before the assessment if you would like some feedback.
CW