Constructing a Langauage Essay

  • Now you are going to piece together an answer to the following question:
Does language play roles of equal imporance in different areas of knowledge?
  • This exercise should help you understand what makes a good TOK, how they are structured and what needs to go into them.
  • Open up these two files: Skeleton of the essay & meat of the essay
  • The Skeleton of the essay has the introduction and the start sentence of each paragraph. You need to put together each of the paragraphs which are often split into 3 parts by using the information in the table from the meat of the essay file.
  • When you have put it together (check its correct with me) complete the following tasks:

a. Summarize the candidates thesis
b. Pick out any examples of a claim (a topic sen­tence that outlines your argument about the about the KI) made in the essay
c. Pick out a real life example, to clar­ify and sup­port the claim used by the candidate from their own experience
d. Find an example of a counter claim


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Role of perception in Mathematics - edublogs