Speak on two sources ( using your notes)

Start with the answer to the quetsion:

1.       What common features and what different  characteristics are mentioned on Peter Drucker in two sources: the text and the recording?

2.       Expand on:
                     common features – discuss each feature in detali- you can quote part s of the text here;

                             different  characteristics- in detail - you can quote parts of the text here;

3.       Evaluate the information of the two texts – your opinion.


Reporting

http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/writing/general/lit-reviews/3.4.xml

http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/asu/download/Connecting-and-reporting-flyer.pdf

22 March class/homework

Read and take notes
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/03/20/eight-principles-of-successful-optimists/

Listen and take notes
http://www.ted.com/talks/nic_marks_the_happy_planet_index.html

Task 1. Compare your notes and think on how the key ideas and supporting details in one source compliment or contradict the ideas and supporting details in another - prepare -3 slides and comment.
Task 2.
Paraphrase:

It is a problem that can only get worse. Think of the growing number of “big science” projects, from the Human Genome to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). All involve thousands of people working in myriad disciplines. Naming an individual who is single-handedly responsible for the project – and its findings - is an impossible task.

[…]
That is because genuine scientific progress is usually collaborative and collective even if the nature of fame, and fiction, is to single out individuals and hand them all the credit. We like to make heroes, and a century ago stories about dashing, dynamic inventors saving the day, and the world, through their indefatigable ingenuity were so popular they even had their own name – Edisonades, inspired by the famously sweaty Thomas Edison. Such tales peaked in popularity long before EAM Windsor became QE2. Now even in fantasies in which a scientist makes some amazing advance, they are usually portrayed as nutty, absent-minded, eccentric or plain weird.
So it will be interesting to see which scientists, if any, end up being allotted a place among the New Elizabethans.  For all their incalculable influence on life as we now live it, few have changed anything single-handedly, while many who have made a significant difference have achieved little or no public recognition. Unlike their fictional counterparts, the scientists who have transformed our world seldom get starring roles, just an uncredited cameo as part of the crowd.

Cooper,Q. 16 March 2012. The myth of the lone genius.[accessed 22 March 2012] <http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120316-the-myth-of-the-lone-genius/2>

Homework 22 March

Paraphrasing skill development

Read and take notes:
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/handy/drucker.pdf

Listen and take notes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE41vmz9zvo

TASK Compare the two sources on Peter Drucker: the recorded interview  and the print text by Charles Handy.

Paraphrasing sources

http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/using-sources/paraphrase
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/01/
http://library.duke.edu/research/plagiarism/cite/paraphrase.html

Academic essay writing (1)

http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/general/general-advice

 1.

Taking notes

http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/reading-and-researching/notes-from-research

2. 

Understanding essay topic:

http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/general/essay-topics

SLIDES #2

3.

Thesis statement

http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/planning-and-organizing/thesis-statements

4. 

Prewriting

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/673/01/

Task - read  and take notes of  one of the parts on academic essay writing (15 min.)- prepare a PP  (7 min.)present info from your part to the class (7 min.)