Browsing by Subject "identity markers"

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    Writing Your World Week 2 Video 9 - Giving Feedback on Introductions
    (2019-06-01) Hunma, Aditi; Nomdo, Gideon
    This video focuses on providing feedbacks for the students' introduction. It discusses how the introductions differ depending on individual markers of identities. The video then reviews each introduction individually. It discusses how the authors make use of their readings and personal experiences to structure their essays. The video provides improvements on how to align a statement with the author's viewpoints. The video also touches on starting off with a broad context requires the definition of key terms. The video then goes on to summarise the introductions of the students' and the improvements that they can make. This is video 9/10 in week 2 of the Writing your World course.
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    Writing Your World Week 4 Video 2 - Reset your deadline to unlock the assignments. Round table discussion: Reflection on the readings
    (2019-06-01) Nomdo, Gideon; Hunma, Aditi
    This video focuses on the discussion of the four authors whose work has been used throughout the course. The initial discussion is on Woodward's writing on sameness. The video covers the dynamic relationship between sameness and otherness whilst providing examples. The video then moves on to Thornton's work. The focus is on the ideas around the act of categorising people. The video touches on the negative effects of the classification process, providing examples from the South African context. It then moves on to the discussion on how people are socialised to use people's region of origin as identity markers. There is also a comparison between Thornton's and Woodward's work. Moeian then discusses the issue of boundaries with regards to Thornton's work by also making using of Sichone's work. This is video 2/7 in week 4 of the Writing your World course.