Ex. 06.15: Online Profile – Writing

ONLINE PROFILE. Write a two-paragraph description of yourself that you could send to your classmates or post to a social network. In the first paragraph, describe yourself including your name, age, hometown, current residence, studies/work, languages, and leisure activities. In the second paragraph, describe your Norwegian studies including the school/the course you are attending, your level in Norwegian, your reasons for studying Norwegian, your study methods, and the parts of learning Norwegian that are easy and difficult for you. Use the texts in Ex. 6.2 as models for the description, but note that your description should be longer and have more details. Submit to your instructor.

• Pre-Writing: Make a brief outline for two paragraphs:
  • About you: Name, age, hometown, current residence, studies/work, languages, and leisure activities.
  • About Norwegian studies: school/course you are attending, your level in Norwegian, your reasons for studying Norwegian, your study methods, and the parts of learning Norwegian that are easy and difficult for you.
• First Draft: Write a rough draft of your essay, but focus more on content than on grammatical correctness.
• Editing: Read your draft and check the items listed below.
  • Organization: Does each paragraph have a main topic? Are the sentences within each paragraph related to each other
  • Cohesion and Style: Have you connected some of the sentences by using conjunctions such as og (and), men (but), fordi (because), and som (who, which)? Have you varied your sentence structure by starting some sentences with adverbials? Are you using sentence adverbs?
• Spelling and Grammar
  • Check the verb forms (present tense and infinitive).
    ex.) Jeg liker å være sammen med familien min.
    ex.) Det er vanskelig å lære norsk uttale.
    ex.) Jeg skal reise til Norge i 2020.
    ex. Jeg gjør alle øvelsene på nettet.
  • Check the word order.
    ex.) Jeg har norsktime klokka 11. (or) Klokka 11 har jeg norsktime.
    ex.) Om kvelden leser jeg på biblioteket.
  • Check the sentence adverbs
    ex.) Jeg går ofte på språklaben. / Jeg leser norske aviser hver dag. / Jeg leser aldri på studenthjemmet.
• Second draft: Rewrite your profile now and make the changes you worked on during the editing process. Submit to your instructor.