Reading Strategies: Summarizing

Summarizing is how we take larger selections of text and reduce them to their bare essentials: the gist, the key ideas, the main points that are worth noting and remembering. We strip away the extra verbiage and extraneous examples. We focus on the heart of the matter. We try to find the key words and phrases that, when uttered later, still manage to capture the gist of what we've read. We are trying to capture the main ideas and the crucial details necessary for supporting them.

Reading Strategies: Scanning

Scanning is a technique we often use when looking up a word in the telephone book or dictionary. We are search for key words or ideas. Scanning involves moving your eyes quickly down the page seeking specific words and phrases. Scanning is also used when you first find a resource to determine whether it will answer our questions. Once you've scanned the document, we might go back and skim it.   

When we scanning, we start look for the author's use of organizers such as numbers, letters, steps, or the words, first, second, or next. Look for words that are bold faced, italics, or in a different font size, style, or color. Sometimes we will see the author will put key ideas in the margin.    

Reading Strategies: Skimming

Skimming is quickly identifying the main ideas of a text. When we read the newspaper, we are probably not reading it word-by-word. Skimming is done at a speed three to four times faster than normal reading. Usually we often skim when we have lots of material to read in a limited amount of time. Use skimming when we want to see if an article may be of interest in our research.    

There are many strategies that we can be use when skimming. Sometime we read the first and last paragraphs using headings, summarizes and other organizers as they move down the page or screen. This technique is useful when we are seeking specific information rather than reading for comprehension. Skimming works well to find dates, names, and places. It might be used to review graphs, tables, and charts.

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STAGES OF THE WRITING PROCESS

There are four stages in the wring process.

1.      Prewriting:

Thinking about ours topic, gathering information, and creating an outline of ours ideas for the structure of the written text that will express our ideas on the topic

2.      Composing:

We actually write the text; a collection of words, sentences, and paragraphs that makes up ours written expression on the topic.

3.      Revising:

After composing we have to reexamining the composed text to improve and polish the structure and content to ensure that it expresses of ours ideas in the most effective way.

4.      Editing:

After we have completed ours composing of the written text and what we need to do now is to check our writing  to ensure that there are no grammar, spelling, or mechanics errors.

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Writing Assignment

Question C 1

The food that I like

The food that I like to eat is omelette fried rice. I started like eat omelette fried rice when I was 15 years old. At first I have no desires or interest to eat omelette fried rice but one of my closes friend came to visited me and take me out to Chinese restaurant to introduce to me about omelette fried rice and asked me if that food is good as he said to me and then I tried to eat and tasted it, the flavor of the food is very wonderful and from that day I always went to that restaurant with my best friend to eat omelette fried rice. This food is very good food, it’s full of carbohydrate from rice and eggs and chicken breast for protein and other than that omelette fried rice also contain with vegetable and it’s good for my diet and to maintaining my body weight. Conclusion is omelette fried rice is the food that I like.              

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Task 4

Topic sentence

In my opinion the topic sentence is states the main idea of the paragraph, for example thanks to the rain; we had a free day off from college.

Supporting sentence

 For the supports sentence is talking about the topic with details, for example the flood started at 8:00 P.M. the night before.  At first, the rain began to fall hardly and the water from drain began to full and all the water slowly surrounding the ground and the road.  Around 9:00 P.M. the rain started coming even harder and harder. The next morning they announced that college were closed!  The rain never stopped until 11:00 A.M.

Concluding sentence

The last one in a paragraph is concluding sentence which is talking about the closing sentence which we have to restates the topic of the paragraph to reminds us what the paragraph taking about for example,  thanks to the rain and flood, we had a free day off from college.

Raining and the Flood Day

Thanks to the rain, we had a free day off from college. The flood started at 8:00 P.M. the night before.  At first, the rain began to fall hardly and the water from drain began to full and all the water slowly surrounding the ground and the road.  Around 9:00 P.M. the rain started coming down harder and harder. The next morning they announced that college were closed!  The rain never stopped until 11:00 A.M. Thanks to the rain and flood, we had a free day off from college.

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Writing Assignment

Question C 4

Exercise to keep fit

Exercise is good to keep our body fit, health, and wellbeing. Exercise is not only make us fit but there is a lot of benefit that we could get from exercise that we take, such as sliming, if we keep take exercise at least 30 minutes a day it would be help us to keep our body slim. Moreover exercise also could helps us to keep our body away from any disease such as, heart diseases, diabetes, and hypertension and so if we want ourselves is strong and healthy, lets us take action today to take exercise for example dancing and jogging. Besides, exercise could help us to even more close to our family and the bonding of our family is became more strong, such as, when we went out to take exercise with our family for jogging we could chat each other’s to share our problem and others than that through exercise we also could bring our family live even more healthy. Conclusion is exercise is kept our body fit, health and wellbeing.