Writing Clear Captions

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From the course by Georgia Institute of Technology

Build Your Professional ePortfolio in English

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Georgia Institute of Technology

Build Your Professional ePortfolio in English

183 оценки

Course 3 of 4 in the Specialization Improve Your English Communication Skills

Roughly half of the world’s population is already online and so setting yourself apart from the crowd is more important than ever before. One of the best ways to do that is by creating your own ePortfolio. An ePortfolio is a site that showcases or shows your background, your resume, and samples of your work. In this course, you will learn step by step how to build the site and you’ll learn the grammar, vocabulary and writing skills needed to create it. You will learn how to apply information from your ePortfolio to other online tools like LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube in order to network with others so that you get a job or connect with other professionals. For each step in that process, you will listen to lectures, take comprehension quizzes, and learn how to use English appropriately to each part of your site. You will also complete self and peer assessments and gain the needed skills to make your ePortfolio a reality and establish yourself online. By the end of this course, you will be able to • Write a proper headline or title for your ePortfolio • Describe your work in 1 sentence and in longer forms • Identify how to use hashtags effectively • Write an effective summary about yourself and your work • Apply appropriate vocabulary to write your education and professional experience for your resume • Understand how to write a tweet to get a job • Discover how to write specific comments and network work with others • Apply what you have on your portfolio to other tools like Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn or YouTube.

From the lesson

Showcase Your Work

This module focuses on writing about your work and accomplishments. You will learn to write about your work in a one sentence caption as well as in a longer descriptive paragraph.

Writing Clear Captions6:03

Meet the Instructors

Karen Peterson
Lecturer
Georgia Tech Language Institute

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Hello, and welcome back to the second module of our course,

Build Your Professional ePortfolio in English.

Since our last module, have you checked out some ePortfolios online?

Well if you spend some time and look at different people's e-portfolios or

websites, you'll notice that many of them contain media,

such as videos and images, which are used to display samples of their work.

I recommend that you add these types of visuals that represent samples

of your work through your ePortfolio as well.

To describe these samples we're going to learn how to write clear and

effective captions and descriptions over the next couple of lessons.

Adding visuals and clear captions and

descriptions will make it easier for viewers to learn about your work.

In this particular lesson, we are going to focus on writing captions.

Captions are essentially one sentence that describe the images or

videos showcasing your work.

An example of a caption for a video could be, this is a presentation that I gave for

the Rockdale County Board of Education in Atlanta in 2009.

Or you can have an image with a caption,

like here is a dining table that I created for

the Boer family In Amsterdam in 2011.

Notice that both examples follow a similar pattern.

They both include what you're showcasing, for whom your work is for,

and the location and time of the event or product.

Let's take a closer look at how to write out these parts.

I recommend that you start your caption with either, here is,

of this is, as the first words.

These initial words reassure readers that

they are directing their attention to the correct sample.

After selecting here is, or this is, add what you're showcasing.

It could be a presentation, or speech, a project or product, or even a service.

So, if you're showing a picture of a brochure that you created,

you can start with, here is a brochure that I designed or created.

If you have more than one picture or video for your work,

write in a plural form, as in, here are and these are.

Here are the brochures that I designed or created.

These are the lectures that I gave or presented.

The noun describing your video will also take plural.

Think about images or videos that you want to upload to your ePortfolio.

How would you start your captions?

We're now going to make your captions more descriptive by adding

the client place and time to do it.

Let's look back at our first examples,

for each of these sentences here's the client,

here's the location and here is the time.

You should already know how to add location and

time from what we've learned in our previous module.

But can you see a pattern with a preposition used before the client?

That's right, you use for plus client.

A client can be actual people, like in this example, or

it can be an event or group like in this example.

Let's take a look at this next example.

You can use all of these types of clients to complete this caption.

The Journal of Chemistry, the Journal of Medicine,

the Cancer Society, my engineering class, my engineering professor,

In some your client can be the name of a company, organization, or

person you worked for and it should be placed right after for.

Now, try to complete your caption with information about your client,

the location, and the date.

Finally, an important suggestion, you can also add your captions

to main social networks like Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube.

One difference is that you can use symbols like @ and

# to mention your client and location.

For example, a graphic designer might write,

here are my recent logo designs that I have

created in 2014@abcco, #newyork.

Notice that with a hash tag, there are no spaces in between.

In resources you can find some more important information

about using Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

So let's review.

In this lesson we've learned how to write captions for

the visual media you will showcase in your ePortfolio.

We have learned the language used to start a caption, and

how to add details with appropriate preposition, such as, for, and also in.

Start uploading some images or videos of your work, and

add some interesting captions to them.

With images and clear captions,

viewers will find your ePortfolio more interesting and engaging.

In our next lesson, we're going to learn how to write longer descriptions for

your work samples.

I'll see you then.

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