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Basic Reading Course Syllabus

Differences between paraphrasing and summarizing


To paraphrase means to restate someone else’s ideas in your own language at
roughly the same level of detail. To summarize means to reduce the most
essential points of someone else’s work into a shorter form. When you
summarize a passage, you need first to absorb the meaning and then to capture
in your own words the most important elements from the original passage. A
summary is necessarily shorter than a paraphrase.

When you should summarize :

Summarizing can be useful in order to :

 Give a succinct introduction to a subject.


 Communicate the essence of a long or complicated material in a succinct,
effective, and easy-to-understand manner.
 Highlight the key points in any document, speech, or presentation.
 Make a convenient resource for future use.
 Shorten the time required to read something

What advantages does summarizing have?

Summarizing is a popular practice for many reasons. With the aid of a


summary,

 You can quickly and simply get the gist of a book without losing context.
 Pinpoint key ideas.
 Provide pertinent information.
 Identify any knowledge gaps.

Top Tips to Ace Summarizing

Here are some suggestions to help you make the most of the process when
you’re ready to summarize:

 Read the text several times to make sure you comprehend it.
 Think of the big picture and main ideas
 Group the main concepts together by looking for links between them.
Remove extraneous information.
 Make an outline and arrange the data in a sensible sequence.
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 Save time by merely summarizing what needs to be spoken.


 Check the summary’s accuracy, brevity, and clarity.

Critical thinking

Critical thinking is a kind of thinking in which you question, analyse,


interpret, evaluate and make a judgement about what you read, hear, say, or
write. The term critical comes from the Greek word kritikos meaning “able to
judge or discern”. Good critical thinking is about making reliable judgements
based on reliable information.

Applying critical thinking does not mean being negative or focusing on faults. It
means being able to clarify your thinking so that you can break down a problem
or a piece of information, interpret it and use that interpretation to arrive at an
informed decision or judgement (for example designing a bridge, responding to
an opinion piece or understanding a political motivation).

People who apply critical thinking consistently are said to have a critical
thinking mindset, but no one is born this way. These are attributes which are
learnt and improved through practice and application.

In the academic context, critical thinking is most commonly associated with


arguments. You might be asked to think critically about other people's
arguments or create your own. To become a better critical thinker, you therefore
need to learn how to:

1. clarify your thinking purpose and context


2. question your sources of information
3. identify arguments
4. analyse sources and arguments
5. evaluate the arguments of others and
6. create or synthesise your own arguments.

The course pathway


Session 1 Course introduction
Session 2 Unit one: chapter one: Travel and technology

New words parts of speech


Session 3 Unit one: chapter two: Selling India's rainy season

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Summary- unit one: chapter one

Critical thinking- unit one: chapter one


Session 4 Unit two: chapter one: The color fashion

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Summary- unit one: chapter two

Critical thinking- unit one: chapter two


Session 5 Unit two: chapter two: Reality TV: Good or bad for fashion?

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Summary- unit two: chapter one

Critical thinking- unit two: chapter one


Session 6 Unit three: chapter one: Endangered species

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Summary- unit two: chapter two

Critical thinking- unit two: chapter two


Session 7 Unit three: chapter two: Bring back the wooly mammoth?

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Summary- unit three: chapter one

Critical thinking- unit three: chapter one


Session 8 Unit four: chapter one: What does a million dollars buy?

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Summary- unit three: chapter two

Critical thinking- unit three: chapter two


Session 9 Unit four: chapter two: Lottery winners: Rich … but happy?

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Summary- unit four: chapter one

Critical thinking- unit four: chapter one


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Session 10 Unit five: chapter one: wedding customs

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Summary- unit four: chapter two

Critical thinking- unit four: chapter two


Session 11 Unit five: chapter two: Travel diary: Yanshuei Fireworks
Festival

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Summary- unit five: chapter one

Critical thinking- unit five: chapter one


Session 12 Unit six: chapter one: The "Lost world" of South America

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Summary- unit five: chapter two

Critical thinking- unit five chapter two


Session 13 Unit six: chapter two: Is " spontaneous human combustion"
possible?

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Summary- unit six: chapter one

Critical thinking- unit six: chapter one


Session 14 Summary- unit six: chapter two

Critical thinking- unit six: chapter two

More activities
Session 15 Review

More activities
Session 16 Review

More activities
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Extra reading pathway


Session 3 Unit seven: chapter one: Successful dieting
Session4 Unit seven: chapter two: Barefoot running
Session 5 Unit eight: chapter one: Human Adaptation to space
Session 6 Unit eight: chapter two: Pioneers of flight
Session 7 Unit nine: chapter one: Is an only child a lonely child?
Session 8 Unit nine: chapter two: Changing roles: The rise of stay-at-
home dads
Session 9 Unit ten: chapter one: Internet learning: The future?
Session 10 Unit ten: chapter two: Plagiarism and the Internet
Session 11 Unit eleven: chapter one: The mysteries of memory loss
Session 12 Unit eleven: chapter two: Words to remember
Session 13 Unit twelve: chapter one: The evolution of Batman
Session 14 Unit twelve: chapter two: Graphic novels come to life

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