LEB 1042 ACADEMIC WRITNG

WEEK FIVE: INFORMATION TRANSFER MATRIXMATRIX

TIME ACTIVITY
Introduction Power Apps Attendance & Lead In to Information Transfer Matrix
Seven Steps in Information Transfer Matrix
30 minutes Video 1: Unifying Theme and Exercise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMGdwIhiwzU

Exercise: Finding the Unifying Theme & Poll

45 minutes Video 2: Thesis Statement and Exercise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFp1uGTXo4Q&t=119s

1 Hr Digital Break
Information Transfer Matrix Sample
Reflection On Video Presentation: https://tinyurl.com/yd5javzx
SSRT Link Guide for Student: https://bit.ly/2YxAE1R & SSRT Walkthrough Responses

45 minutes Learning Satisfaction Quick Poll Link

 LEARNING OUTCOME

Transfer Information
By the end of the Identify an Write a from outside
lesson, you should appropriate comprehensive sources into the
be able to: unifying theme thesis statement Information Transfer
Matrix (ITM)
 SEVEN STEPS IN INFORMATION TRANSFER
MATRIX
• Step 1: Identify a suitable title for your essay. It can be constructed in the form
of a question. Eg Are social robots trustworthy and safe?
• Step 2: Narrow down and identify specific outside sources (journal articles) to
support your essay.
• Step 3: Identify what is the unifying theme that ties together all outside sources
you have identified.
• Step 4: Highlight specific information in the articles which you plan to include in
your essay.
• Step 5: Transfer the information you have highlighted into the ITM.
• Step 6: Complete all information required in the ITM. The e.g. uses APA style.
• Step 7: Using the ITM, you can now construct an “outline” for your essay.
 STEP 1
• Step 1: Identify a suitable title for your essay.
• Explore a few credible sources (journal articles, text books, etc.) which
contain factual information that can substantiate your claims and opinions.
• It would be advisable to construct the title of your essay in the form of a
question.
• You can reconstruct the title of your essay in the form of a statement once
you have completed the essay.
• Example: Are social robots trustworthy and safe?
 STEP 2
• Step 2: Narrow down and identify specific outside sources (journal
articles, books, conference papers, etc.) which contain information that
you will use to support your essay.
• These outside sources are resources which you have identified as
containing valuable information that will strengthen your claims and
opinions in your essay.
 STEP 3
• Step 3: Identify what is the unifying theme that ties together all the outside
sources you have identified.
• You can list keywords that reflect the content of all the articles you have
identified and coin them together for a suitable unifying theme.
• A unifying theme is helpful to narrow down the actual outside sources which
• you are planning to use for your own essay.
 STEP 4
• Step 4: Highlight specific information in the articles which you plan to include
in your essay.
• ‘Main Ideas’ refer to specific information from the individual articles you have
identified, which you believe will be relevant for your own essay.
• These highlighted sections are ‘possible’ information you plan to include’ in
your essay.
• Once you begin writing your essay, some of this information can be
‘dropped’ and thus will not appear in your final essay.
• Some information from one article can come across as being similar to
information from another article.
• Such information can be ‘synthesised’, which will be discussed in our next
lecture.
 STEP 5
• Step 5: Transfer the information you have highlighted into the ITM.
• If the information from the original article has not been paraphrased yet,
indicate in the ITM using quotation marks.
•
 STEP 6
• Step 6: Complete all information required in the ITM.
• The ITM example shown uses the APA format.
• The entries in the ITM example for the
• There are at least two ways of writing its in-text citation:
• 1. as part of a sentence, for example: Scheutz (2012) claimed …
• 2. at the end of the sentence, for example: … (Scheutz, 2012).
 STEP 7
• Step 7: Using the completed ITM, you can now construct an ‘outline’ for your
essay.
EXERCISE 1: FIND A MAIN IDEA IN THE ARTICLE
HIGHLIGHT MAIN IDEAS
SAMPLE OF AN INFORMATION TRANSFER MATRIX
 VIDEO 1
• Video 1: Unifying Theme and Exercise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMGdwIhiwzU

• Video 2: Thesis Statement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFp1uGTXo4Q
 A unifying theme essentially:
• A. disconnects all points in
the essay
POLL • B. it unites limited points
QUESTION and focusses on one
ON UNIFYING articles which is the most
important.
THEME
• C. it ties together various
key elements mentioned in
several articles about a
topic of interest.
 A thesis statement:
• A. highlights specific information
and does not provide much
POLL opinion.
QUESTION ON
• B. it anchors the essay and
THESIS provide the readers with the
STATEMENT purpose and direction of the
essay.
• C. it sums up your opinion and is
found in the conclusion of an
essay.
 A thesis statement is found in the :
• A. introduction of an essay.
POLL • B. at the end of an introduction of
QUESTION ON the essay.
THESIS • C. at the mid point in the body of an
STATEMENT essay.
• D. only in the conclusion as this is
where is the most important
message of the essay.
DIGITAL BREAK
 REFLECTION LINK FOR VIDEO PRESENTATION
• https://tinyurl.com/yd5javzx
 SSRT GUIDELINE FOR STUDENT
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