The document outlines the week one module of a post-graduate course on academic writing at Santiago de Cali University, focusing on speaking and listening skills development. It includes information on assignments, such as preparing a short oral presentation, and touches on the significance of writing and sharing ideas. Additionally, it contains a humorous anecdote about a man who disguised himself as a stowaway in a shipping crate to save airfare.

1. Prof. Larry M. Lynch
Santiago de Cali University
Education Faculty Post-Graduate Studies
Department
proflmlynch@gmail.com
Profundizacion en Ingles
Week One Module:
Introduction to
Academic Writing

2. Welcome to the
Profundizacion en Ingles Course…
• Academic Writing –
Week One
• Speaking Skills
Development – Week Two
• Listening Comprehension
– Week Three
• Reading & Comprehension
– Week Four

3. WHY
PUBLISH?
ORGANIZATION OF
THEMATIC POINTS
RECOGNITION
PROFESSIONAL
PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
OF IDEAS
SHARE
TECHNIQUES
DOCUMENT
PROGRESS and
CHANGES
CLASSROOM
EXPERIENCES
SHARE KNOWLEDGE
PERSONAL
CHALLENGE
TO WRITE
TO RESEARCH
RESULTS OF
INVESTIGATIONS
EXPRESS YOUR
IDEAS &
OPINIONS
ACADEMICCOMPENSATION
FINANCIAL
THE IMPORTANCE OF WRITING

5. How could you send things to:

6. How could you send things to:

7. How could you send things to:

8. How could you send these?

9. How could you send this?

10. Name some items you can NOT
send

11. Sent Packing
Charles D. McKinley, 25, of Brooklyn, N.Y., had four weeks of
vacation coming, so he decided to visit his parents in DeSoto,
Texas. Rather than buy a plane ticket for $320, McKinley, a
shipping clerk, packed himself into a shipping crate and air-
expressed himself home, charging the fees to his employer.
When the crate was delivered to his parent’s front step,
McKinley pushed out of the box and shook hands with the
“shaken and frightened” delivery driver. The driver called the
police. After an investigation by the FBI, the U.S. Attorney,
postal inspectors, the Federal Aviation Administration and the
Transportation Security Administration, McKinley was charged
as a stowaway, a federal misdemeanor.
… If he had only waited for the driver to leave, he would have
been home free.
• Source: The Dallas Morning News

12. Can YOU
Write &
Say it -
RIGHT?

13. “I ain’t got no money.”
Correct or not?

14. “Is you is, or is you ain’t, my baby?”
(Correct or
not?)

15. “While she was watching TV,
she was combing her hair.”
(correct or not?)

16. “There is, on the floor, a dead
rat.”
(correct or not?)

17. “Tomorrow we’re gonna
study.”
(correct or not?)

18. “My dog Lucas is a Chow Chow which
likes to eat spaghetti and drink beer.”
(correct or not?)

19. Assignment for Week One:
Prepare an approximately
three to five minute oral
presentation on a topic of
your choice. You may use
visual slides or notes to
speak from, but you may
NOT read aloud from the
screen or your notes.

20. Prof. Larry M. Lynch
Santiago de Cali University
Education Faculty Post-Graduate Studies
Department
proflmlynch@gmail.com
See you next week in –
“Profundizacion en Ingles”
Week Two Module:
Speaking Skills Development