Today I went over the general purposes of the unit and what you will be doing over the next couple of months.
This unit will be largely project-based: ie you will work on researching the impact of a major event. You will be required to discuss elements of your research in a formal meeting and, finally, produce the findings of your research in the form of a formal report. The meetings will take place in November and the final drafts of reports will be due in December.
Before that, however, you will be working on the first assessment which requires you to summarise and evaluate a complex document.
We have started developing these skills already (see last week). Today, we looked at a formal government report on the legacy of the Olympics (click here to see a copy).
After taking a look at the format, structure and layout of the document, we had a go at summarising section 4 (the original text was 608 words long).
The summarising was done in groups of two and three and everyone submitted a copy of their summary at the end. We’ll take it up from there next week.
This unit will be largely project-based: ie you will work on researching the impact of a major event. You will be required to discuss elements of your research in a formal meeting and, finally, produce the findings of your research in the form of a formal report. The meetings will take place in November and the final drafts of reports will be due in December.
Before that, however, you will be working on the first assessment which requires you to summarise and evaluate a complex document.
We have started developing these skills already (see last week). Today, we looked at a formal government report on the legacy of the Olympics (click here to see a copy).
After taking a look at the format, structure and layout of the document, we had a go at summarising section 4 (the original text was 608 words long).
The summarising was done in groups of two and three and everyone submitted a copy of their summary at the end. We’ll take it up from there next week.
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