Introduction
Name's: Yailene Suira, Ilcris Samudio
Welcome! Dear students, today's topic is About writing essays. This webquest was created so that you can improve your skills in writing essays and that you can identify the parts of an essay.
On the other hand, they can handle the structure of an essay with all its details, for example: the introduction, the body that is divided into 3 paragraphs and each one of them has a topic sentence, details, examples and concluding sentence and to finish the essay uses a conclusion, all these details are important for the development of it.
Task
Read content
Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics concerned with the use of language in social contexts and the ways people produce and comprehend meanings through language. The term pragmatics was coined in the 1930s by psychologist and philosopher Charles Morris. Pragmatics was developed as a subfield of linguistics in the 1970s.
Pragmatics has its roots in philosophy, sociology, and anthropology. Morris drew on his background when he laid out his theory of pragmatics in his book "Signs, Language and Behavior," explaining that the linguistic term "deals with the origins, uses, and effects of signs within the total behavior of the interpreters of signs." In terms of pragmatics, signs refers not to physical signs but to the subtle movements, gestures, tone of voice, and body language that often accompany speech.
Sociology—the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society—and anthropology played large roles in the development of pragmatics. Morris based his theory on his earlier work editing the writings and lectures of George Herbert Mead, an American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist, in the book "Mind, Self, and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist," writes John Shook in Pragmatism Cybrary, an online pragmatism encyclopedia. Mead, whose work also drew heavily on anthropology—the study of human societies and cultures and their development—explained how communication involves much more than just the words people use: It involves the all-important social signs people make when they communicate.
After of analyze answer the following questions.
- What is this paragraph about?
- What role plays pragmatics inside an linguistic system, also how you could define it?
- If pragmatics has its roots in philosophy, sociology, and anthropology why is associated with linguistics branches?
- What is "Mind, Self, and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist," Theory Morris based
- Write an essay about the paragraph above
Process
In the aforementioned task, they will test their knowledge, first by reading the content, then analyzing it and answering the questions, and finally writing a well-structured essay on the topic.
Here I will leave some links on the subject to have more information and some tips for the essay.
An video tip of How to Write an Essay in english
Steps to Write an Essay Image
Evaluation
These are the criteria to evaluate:
| Puntuality | 25 |
| Orthography | 15 |
| Coherence | 15 |
| Structure | 20 |
| Answers | 15 |
| Group Work | 10 |
| Total | __/100 |
Conclusion
Thanks to the webquest we can practice, develop and analyze different types of tasks, especially essay writing, students can see the material and develop the activity at the same time, even see some other type of material such as videos or hyperlinks with more information about the subject, one of the main objectives is for students to obtain the main knowledge of the subject in a different way.