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Module 6. Writing the summary of a newspaper articleStudents 4078 Spring 2013 Professional english Examination (contents, requirements and dates) 1) Reading newspaper articles (home work + class work+ exam)=> Portfolio Materials circa one article a week every class in February and March (every week you will be mailed articles or given a link + questions to answer in writing based on the article and will have to mail back your home work regularly every Wednesday to the instructor) 2) General English test (home / class + exam)=> Portfolio Home self-revision: www.oup.com/student/headway Intermediate for 3; Upper-intermediate for 4 => Test Builder 4 parts for revision at home before the lesson: to bring printed copies of your test with hand-made corrections (with the date)
NB Extra grammar exercises for 5: www.oup.com/student/headway Advanced => Grammar Units 1-6 (March 29);Units 7-12 (April 5) 3) 10-minute Power Point presentationon your bachelor paper (class) only for the students having potential for 4 and 5=> Portfolio (2 slides on A4) Date: April 19(speakers appointed in advance) 4) Academic writing (home + class for editing) Bachelor paper abstract April 19(1st draft) the edited final draft for submission April 26.
Duration and deadlines
5: 90-100%; 4: 75-90%; 3: 60-75%
Portfolio contents 7 newspaper articles: All writing tasks; Grammar testsprinted templates from the site with the gaps filled in by hand; Bachelor work abstract 200 for 4 and 5; 60 words for 3. Students who will miss classes must do extra work translations into Russian (grammar exercises + newspaper articles)
The format of the abstract (next page) Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University World and Regional Economy Department Professional English Ivan Susanin, 4078/1 The analysis of the (your bachelor research theme)
Abstract
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module 6. Writing the summary of a newspaper article Summary writing is an important skill in academic and professional work. In this module, you are going to write summaries of newspaper articles by practicing a variety of activities: 1. reading articles and answering comprehension questions; 2. identifying the main idea and supportive arguments; 3. paraphrasing and compressing the information when writing definitions, theses, and outlines of the article in your own words; 4. turning the outline into the summary of particular length (e.g. 80 words); 5. evaluating your partners first draft using assessment scoring rubrics; 6. editing your first draft by focusing both on the content and the language of the summary; In addition, you will learn more about the specific features of the academic discourse and will apply this knowledge during the editing stage of your writing by attending to the following areas: · vocabulary (e.g. replacing spoken words with formal academic words); · sentence structures (e.g. joining short sentences into longer ones); · transition words to ensure a smooth move from idea to idea, from sentence to sentence; · tenses and verb forms (e.g. consistency of tenses or passive forms); · articles and prepositions; · spelling and punctuation (e.g. no comma before that, because, etc.) · word count of the summary (e.g. making your summary shorter/longer if necessary). Date: 2015-12-24; view: 1249
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