biol+3+written+communication

Advice for written responses
It is important that you can communicate your understanding of biology as fully as possible when writing responses. The following strategy might be useful in assisting you to write more specific and detailed written responses in assessment tasks, and short answer sections of tests and examinations. As with any strategy, you need to practise it, for you to become more proficient and confident with its use.

//Constructing sentences from a base sentence// Write a core sentence. For example, ‘Osmosis involves movement’. Break the sentence into subject and predicate. Osmosis/involves movement. Now gradually expand on the subject and the predicate, as shown below.
 * Expanding the subject || Expanding the predicate ||
 * Osmosis || involves movement ||
 * __Osmosis__ is a process || __involves__ __movement__ of water molecules ||
 * __Osmosis__ is a process that relies on concentration differences || __involves__ the passive __movement__ of water molecules ||
 * __Osmosis__ is a passive process that occurs across plasma membranes || __involves__ the __movement__ of water molecules from a region of high “free water” to low “free water” concentration ||

Notice how the core sentence is still present. These can then be combined. __Osmosis__ is a process that __involves__ __movement__ of water molecules. __Osmosis__ is a process that relies on concentration differences and __involves__ the passive __movement__ of water molecules. __Osmosis__ is a passive process that occurs across plasma membranes and __involves__ the __movement__ of water molecules from a region of high “free water” to low “free water” concentration. Other versions can also be written. __Osmosis__ is a process that __involves__ the passive __movement__ of water molecules. __Osmosis__ is a passive process that occurs across plasma membranes and __involves__ __movement__ of water molecules. __Osmosis__ is a process that relies on concentration differences and __involves__ the __movement__ of water molecules from a region of high “free water” to low “free water” concentration.

As a follow up, judge which sentence you think is ‘best’ and in what way the others may be lacking.

Class challenge 1
See how many **different** sentences you can come up with that contain the term **"monomer"**. Try and include the use of at least one other term to communicate a greater understanding. Avoid using a term that has already been used in another sentence, unless you are combining it with the use of another "unused" term. You can write your intital after your contribution or keep it anonymous.