Summarizing is a necessary skill for both inside and outside the classroom. It is an important ability to become comfortable and skilled at. To be able to summarize concisely and correctly you must be able to sort the main points from the "unnecessary" information. As many of you know, a thorough summarization includes the following: who, what, why, where, when, how.
According to University of Idaho, they believe that the following process must be completed to create a well drafted summary. (http://www.class.uidaho.edu/adv_tech_wrt/resources/general/how_to_summarize.htm)
1. Read the article.
2. Re-read the article.
-Underline important ideas.
-Circle key terms.
-Find the main point of the article.
-Divide the article into sections or stages of thought,
-Label each section or stage of thought in the margins.
-Note the main idea of each paragraph if the article is short.
3. Write brief summaries of each stage of thought or if appropriate each paragraph. Use a separate piece of paper for this step. This should be a
brief outline of the article.
4. Write the main point of the article. Use your own words. This should be a sentence that expresses the central idea of the article as you have determined it the from steps above.
5. Write your rough draft of the summary. Combine the information from the first four steps into paragraphs.
6. Edit your version. Be concise. Eliminate needless words and repetitions.
(Avoid using "the author says...," "the author argues...," etc.)
Now, Mr. Moore’s summarization of the University of Idaho’s process:
1. Read
2. Underline, Highlight, Circle
3. Write
4. Edit
5. Edit
This week’s Blog assignment is to go onto http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/ and summarize an article (7-10 sentences) that you read there.
Please include a link to your article in your response.
Please post all responses on the Blog.
Do not email me your responses.
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-12/06/content_9126555.htm
ReplyDeleteChinese police are offering a 200,000 yuan reward, ($29,000) for any one who can give vital information about who has killed two men in two separate shootings. The suspect shot a man in the head outside a bank after steeling $6,000 from him. on another accession he shot a man out side the same bank. The suspect is an average sized man at the age of about 40. There was a report of a 50-year-old man shot dead by a homemade gun in the city's Nanjiao park on October 14. "The investigation shows that the suspect who shot Guo and who shot another man by gun in October was the same one... Changsha police authorities has paid a lot attention on the two cases and therefore offered a large reward to seize the suspect.” There was a report of a 50-year-old man shot dead by a homemade gun in the city's Nanjiao park on October 14. The intire case is still under investigation and has to 11 suspects.
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ReplyDeleteIn an area of the country where local transportation for goods and civilians is dependent on two ferries to get across the Essequibo River, having a pair that often break down spells out disaster for the economy as well as the civilians planning their day. In the most recent of news from China, the country has agreed to sell Guyana of South Africa a set of new river ferries. As part of a seventeen million dollar agreement, the South African country will be receiving two brand new River Ferries from the Chinese Government. Public Works Minister Robeson Benn confirmed information about government officials having signed the purchase deal earlier in the week. Information confirms that the new ferries will arrive in 2011. It is said that the purchase will greatly improve the government's passenger and cargo service along waterways. With new ferries, Guyana will have an increase in productivity giving way for more economic power to the country. These ferries will have every positive effect on the region said to exist.
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Justin Tauber
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12/2/09
Mr. Moore
Bogey Fears Cost Big Bucks
Do you try to hard just to succeed sometimes? Well recently I have read an article that has to do with some very great famous golfers who sometimes try too hard and rather take the Par which is when you get the number of shots you should get, instead of getting the birdie. A birdie is when you shot one less under of what you should shoot on the hole. It says in the article that I read that, “Playing it safe carries its own risks in golf and business”. Two University of Pennsylvania professors studied these topics. They did their studies by going to pro golf tournaments and study every putt that they would see, and their research suggested the “agony of a bogey seems to outweigh thrill of a birdie”. They also came to the discovery of when an average golfer plays a 72-hole tournament, translating to a combined loss of about $1.2 million in prize money per year for the top 20 golfers. Another thing the two professors discovered is that, “people work especially hard in order to avoid losses”. They do this in golf also, they do this by playing conservatively when they could do better than par but will try harder if they are at risk of coming above par. They used data from 230 PGA Tour tournaments between 2004 and 2009, concentrating on 2.5 million putts attempted by 412 golfers who each made at least 1,000 putts. So if you worry about going over what you try to fulfill, don’t worry, and know that, “the study showed even experts in a subject suffer from bias in high-stakes settings.