Saturday, May 5, 2007

Homework for Monday

Hi!
Homework for Monday:

A.
Read the two texts (Creatividad, La Llave del Siglo XXI, Thirty Eight who saw murder didn't call the police) and follow the fisrt three steps in writing a summary.

1. Step One: "...accurately read the original text.", "...identify the controlling idea of each paragraph." (Summarizing a Text, 1)
2. Step two: "...analyze the rest of the information in the text, interact with the ideas." (Summarizing a Text, 2)
3. Step three: "... read through your highlighting and marginal notes and determine the controlling idea of the entire reading." (Summarizing a Text, 5)

B.
Read the handout "Summarizing a Text" and complete exercises 1-17.


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Monday, April 30, 2007

This week

Hi!
Remember, on Wednesday we have the Intensive test.

For Thursday we have two homeworks:

1. Workshop 1: This must be done.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgmvk7jn_7827pk4g

2. Summarizing a Text: This document consists of 21 pages and is now at Picachu photocopy center. I can also email it to you if you want. I'm uploading it at SIGA also, but that might take a while. This document must be read for Thursday's class since we will discuss it and use it to start producing summaries.

Today we reviewed the handout about APA Referencing System. We did some exercises and finished with that.