Essay Seminar Preparations
Eng 1
Load up your essay on the Fronter virtual learning environment. Get prepared to help your
classmates with your best feedback. (The most important thing is to learn writing skills, not to
have performed perfectly.) Read the two essays that follow your own in the list and get ready
to talk about the following items:
1. Sum up the main contents of her/his essay
Di this briefly to make people interested. Is the topic new to you? Is it complicated?
2. Comment on the first impression
Layout and choice of headlines. Header with necessary information about the text? Captions
under pictures?
3. Clarity: Can you see from the pictures and the heading what
the text is about?
Does it make you want to read the paragraphs? Are there enough headings or too many?
4. Clarity: Is the language clear and pleasant?
Or is it sometimes confusing? It is not always the reader’s fault if s/he doesn’t get the
message. Are the INTRODUCTION and CONCLUSION powerful?
5. Credibility
Does the writer come out as clever? Why is it (not) so? Can you trust the writer? Are the
references reliable sources? Is detailed information supported with in-text references?
6. Details
Are the pictures mentioned in the text (before the pictures)? Are they helpful for the
understanding? Are all references LISTED correctly? Are all references used as IN-TEXT
references?
7. Overall Impression
Were your expectations met? Did the writer do a good job? Can you show this essay to people
outside the Åland Polytechnic?
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
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Header (rapporthuvud)
Subheadings (as in Outline View “Dispositionsläge”)
Reference List as in instructions
In-text references
Figure with caption included
See examples on next page!
Reference List Examples
Apple. (2004). Power Macintosh G5 tech specs. [www]. Found on
http://www.apple.com/powermac/specs.html. Retrieved on the 23.03.2004.
Hopkins, N. (2003). Apple row may go on for years. Times Online [www]. Found on
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5-834711,00.html. Accessed 23.03.2004.
Strömquist, S. (1999). Uppsatshandboken. Uppsala: Hallgren & Fallgren studieförlag AB.
Svenska datatermgruppen. (2001a). Ordlista [www]. Version 19. Hämtat 18.12.2001.
http://www.nada.kth.se/dataterm/rek.html
Svenska datatermgruppen. (2001b). Frågor och svar [www]. Version 20. Hämtat
18.12.2001. http://www.nada.kth.se/dataterm/fos-lista.html#37
Så fungerar det. (2004). Vattenfall [www].
http://www.vattenfall.se/om_vattenfall/energikunskap/vind/sa_fungerar_det.asp Retrieved on the 23rd of
March 2004
Wind Energy – How Does It Work? (2004). American Wind Energy Association [www].
http://www.awea.org/pubs/factsheets/HowWindWorks2003.pdf Retrieved on the 23rd of March 2004
In-text References Examples
(Apple, 2004) (Så fungerar det, 2004) (Svenska datatermgruppen, 2001b) (Strömquist, 1999)
Picture with caption, in-text reference, and mention above it
There are many different sizes, from small 100 watt units designed to provide power for single homes or
cottages, to huge ones with blade diameters over 50 m, generating over 1 MW (1 million watts) of
electricity. The most common at the present time are 15 – 30 m in blade diameter, producing 50 – 350 kW
of electricity (1 kW = 1000 W). They are often fitted together like “wind farms”, see figure 1 below!
Figure 1. Different types of plants (Ålands vindenergi 2004)