This document discusses a research seminar that focuses on presenting course texts and writing text summaries. It provides guidelines for writing a text summary, including keeping it within 650 words, focusing on the main ideas in your own words, and submitting it by December 6th. The seminar aims to explain what a text summary entails and how to write one, covering topics such as including a reasonable representation of the whole text, making notes while reading, and sticking to the word count.

1. Research Process Seminar:
Term 1. Week 6, 7/11/2013
Text presentation and
Text summary
Artist: John Baldessari

2. Research Process Seminar:
Term 1. Week 6, 7/11/2013
The aims of this session are:
- to go through the text presentation
and text summary assignment
By the end of this session:
- you will understand what text summary must include
- you will know how to do the text summary

3. Research Process Seminar:
Term 1. Week 6, 7/11/2013
SESSION PLAN
-1. Introduction of the session
- 2. the Text presentation and the Text Summary
- 3. Learning Journal
- 4. Wrap up: questions, doubts and comments

4. Research Process Seminar:
Term 1. Week 6, 7/11/2013
2.THE TEXT PRESENTATION AND THE TEXT SUMMARY
PHOT20118
Seminar Text Presentation and Summary Submission Guidelines
The Text Summary is an assessed assignment based on the content of one of
the seminar texts read in term 1. There is a text for each seminar which all
students should read and make notes on prior to the seminar. Central to each
seminar is a presentation of the selected text by a group of two to four
students. All students participate in one of these groups during term 1 as
there is an assessment criteria associated with the presentation itself.

5. Research Process Seminar:
Term 1. Week 6, 7/11/2013
2.THE TEXT PRESENTATION AND THE TEXT SUMMARY
PHOT20118
Seminar Text Presentation and Summary Submission Guidelines
The Text Summary is an assessed assignment based on the content of one of
the seminar texts read in term 1. There is a text for each seminar which all
students should read and make notes on prior to the seminar. Central to each
seminar is a presentation of the selected text by a group of two to four
students. All students participate in one of these groups during term 1 as
there is an assessment criteria associated with the presentation itself.
ANY QUESTIONS, DOUBTS AND/OR COMMENTS
ABOUT THE TEXT PRESENTATION?

6. Research Process Seminar:
Term 1. Week 6, 7/11/2013
2.THE TEXT PRESENTATION AND THE TEXT SUMMARY
PHOT20118
Seminar Text Presentation and Summary Submission Guidelines
-What is a text summary?
Summary: noun (plural summaries)
a brief statement or account of the main points of something.
Summary: Outline, synopsis, core, condensation
Your summary should be a reasonable representation of the whole text, not
just part of it.

7. Research Process Seminar:
Term 1. Week 6, 7/11/2013
2.THE TEXT PRESENTATION AND THE TEXT SUMMARY
PHOT20118
Seminar Text Presentation and Summary Submission Guidelines
-How to do it?
The summary should be put together from the notes that you have made as
you worked through the reading, and should as far as possible be in your
own words.
You must stick to the word count (650 words).This demonstrates your skill
at being able to sift through the material to decide which are most relevant
points of the text.

8. Research Process Seminar:
Term 1. Week 6, 7/11/2013
2.THE TEXT PRESENTATION AND THE TEXT SUMMARY
PHOT20118
Seminar Text Presentation and Summary Submission Guidelines
-Why?
The main purpose is to read and understand the meaning of the text and
then to demonstrate you can put text's main ideas into your own words.
It is possible to make quite different summaries from each text.
Remember, there are no simple ‘right answers’ as such; however, being
accurate in defining an issue is often a measure of how closely you have
followed the author’s arguments. The evidence is in the reading and
translation. You must be careful not to get caught up in flights of fancy, or in
expressing your own opinion, or in giving an account of the seminar activity
itself. It is the text and its ideas you are summarising.

9. Research Process Seminar:
Term 1. Week 6, 7/11/2013
2.THE TEXT PRESENTATION AND THE TEXT SUMMARY
PHOT20118
Seminar Text Presentation and Summary Submission Guidelines
Others
Normally your summary will be on the text that you have presented to your
seminar group.
NTU formal guidelines
Top of the first page: word count, your name and the title and reference of the
article or chapter.
Submission date: by noon, 6 December 2013.

10. Research Process Seminar:
Term 1. Week 6, 7/11/2013
2.THE TEXT PRESENTATION AND THE TEXT SUMMARY
PHOT20118
Seminar Text Presentation and Summary Submission Guidelines
Others
Normally your summary will be on the text that you have presented to your
seminar group.
NTU formal guidelines
Top of the first page: word count, your name and the title and reference of the
article or chapter.
Submission date: by noon, 6 December 2013.

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Term 1. Week 6, 7/11/2013

12. Research Process Seminar:
Term 1. Week 6, 7/11/2013
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3. Learning
Journal

13. Research Process Seminar:
Term 1. Week 6, 7/11/2013
4. Wrap up:
questions, doubts and
comments