Maam Aswan Delivers a Lecture

Active Department: English Language Department
Type of activity: Workshop
Activity Title: Bridging Ideas: Mastering Linking Words for Coherent and Cohesive Writing
Bridging Ideas: Mastering Linking Words for Coherent and Cohesive Writing
Activity leader: Ms. Aswan Galal Abbas
Objectives:

1. To enhance participants’ understanding of conjunctions (also known as cohesive devices or transition words) and their role in writing and speaking.
2. Improve academic and professional writing through the use of appropriate connectors to achieve clarity and logical sequence.
3. Recognize the different types of conjunctions such as:) addition, contrast, and causation.
4. Provide practical strategies for incorporating conjunctions naturally into writing and speaking.
5. Help learners avoid overuse or misuse of conjunctions and achieve stylistic balance.

Themes:

1. Types of conjunctions
   o Addition, contrast, cause and effect, chronology, comparison, comparison, emphasis
2. Linking devices in academic writing
   o How to use them effectively in essays, reports, and research papers.
   o Improve transitions between paragraphs and the sequence of ideas within a sentence.
3. Connectors in Speaking o How to use them effectively in essays, reports, and research papers.
   o Enhance fluency and coherence in presentations and discussions.
4. Common mistakes and stylistic tips
   o Repetition, misuse, and how to vary expression.
5. Practice activities
   o Completing sentences, rearranging paragraphs, editing texts with a focus on coherence.
   Date of the activity:
   Today / Sunday, 4/20/2025
   Ten o’clock in the morning, God willing
   Hall / 24