Topic 1: The Language of Ideas

Table of Contents

1. The Language of Ideas: Introduction
2. The Language of Ideas
3. Academic language
4. Kinds of abstract words: Qualities
5. Kinds of abstract words: conditions
6. Kinds of abstract words: processes
7. Institutions and Systems of Belief
8. Exam Questions
9. Initial Problem Revisited
10. Journal Entry: Application Task
    1. Where you are now
    2. Journal

Journal

It will help you considerably if you think about the work you are studying at present.

Your tutor may set you an application task based on this Topic.

If not, here are two things for you to try:

1. Get hold of some old exam papers and assignments:
   1. Pick out the abstract words in the questions
   2. Consider whether the abstract words in your own subject and words for qualities, conditions, processes, institutions etc.? (or words for other kinds of ideas?)

2. Look back at an assignment that you have written in the recent past. Did your answer focus on ideas and abstract concepts? If not, outline how it might be improved. What abstract words could you have used?