The document provides guidance on how to write chapter summaries, including focusing on the central idea, including the main points in order of emphasis, avoiding minor details and opinions, and ensuring brevity, completeness, and objectivity. It discusses examining the context of the chapter, identifying the thesis, main ideas in sections, and conclusion. Guidelines are provided for writing summaries, such as developing a thesis statement, checking against the original text, and revising.
IT INCLUDES THE PROPER DESCRIPTION AND TYPES OF TECHNICAL REPORTS . I HAVE DISCUSSED ABOUT HISTORY OF TECHNICAL REPORTS AND BASICS OF TECHNICAL REPORTS ARE ALSO MENTIONED . MOREOVER THE OVERVIEW OF ALL TYPES ,STRUCTURE OF A TECHNICAL REPORT AND CHECKLIST FOR A REPORT ARE ALSO INCLUDED
IT INCLUDES THE PROPER DESCRIPTION AND TYPES OF TECHNICAL REPORTS . I HAVE DISCUSSED ABOUT HISTORY OF TECHNICAL REPORTS AND BASICS OF TECHNICAL REPORTS ARE ALSO MENTIONED . MOREOVER THE OVERVIEW OF ALL TYPES ,STRUCTURE OF A TECHNICAL REPORT AND CHECKLIST FOR A REPORT ARE ALSO INCLUDED
Why Teach a fish to swim? A design-based research study incorporating social...J'ette Novakovich
Congruent with my status as a PhD student, I was an Assistant Professor in the professional writing minor program at Concordia. I had been asked by the department chair to update the course offerings. The courses were basically rooted in mid to late 20th century writing practices, with the bulk of the content being highly irrelevant, and more academic than practical.
Having prior experience designing a social media component during my time teaching at Penn State, I was eager to get started; however, introducing social media is problematic in Quebec, primarily because Privacy Laws protect students having to participate in web 2.0 environments, to safeguard students from undergoing U.S. State surveillance. For this reason, I decided to run a study to determine how an instructional design could be effective and at the same time non-mandatory?
The study took place over a four-year period from 2012-2016, involved 3 iterations of a yearlong course, and was followed by a retrospective analysis, which included a survey of participants 1-2 and 3 years after the course.
Techniques and measurement for engaging your audienceJ'ette Novakovich
Nutshell Learning Series: All communication is relational. Incorporating tools to engage your audience and knowing what and how to measure in a nutshell.
The Impact of Digital Literacy Practices on Learning Outcomes in Higher Educ...J'ette Novakovich
This paper reports the findings of a Stage I meta-analysis exploring the effectiveness of online digital literacy practices performed through social media tools in higher education classrooms as measured by learning outcomes. An extensive literature search culled more than 500 potential articles and resulted in a sample of 51 representative quasi-experimental studies, consisting of 4,630 total participants. Fifty-one effect sizes were extracted and yielded a moderately positive statistically significant weighted average effect size of g+ = 0.315, k=51, p <. 01. This overall effect size suggests that integrating online digital literacy practices into the higher education classroom benefits students on measures of academic achievement and offers significant learning support.
In addition, several moderator variables were tested to determine what factors and literacy practices impact learning outcomes; namely, field of study (STEM, ARTS), conceptualization of tool (social learning theory, delivery tool), peer interaction (yes, no), modality (blogs, collaborative communication text-based technologies, i.e. forums and wikis; podcasts, and virtual worlds), practice (consuming, prosuming behaviors), and the learning outcome measured (course project, knowledge-based exam); moderator effect sizes were statistically significant for the following variables: conceptualization of the tool, practice, and learning outcomes.
2. What is a summary? A brief restatement, in your own words, of the content of a passage. In your case, it will be a chapter. The key is to focus on the central idea.
4. A summary requires Interpretation Write a summary of the following image:
5. Guidelines for writing a summary for a longer passage: Include all of the main points. The main points will reflect the order and emphasis given to them by the original author. It may include important examples It will not include minor details It will not repeat points It will not contain your opinions or conclusions
6. A good summary will include the following: Brevity Completeness Objectivity
10. Purpose of a Summary Help you understand what you have read Summaries are useful to your readers Summaries of chapters will help shape your book report
11. The Reading Process Summaries require you to read carefully and allow you to make accurate and coherent discussions that go beyond the summary.
12. Examine the Context Credentials, occupation, and publications of the author. Identify the source in which the piece originally appeared.
13. Note the title and subtitle They reveal the author’s attitude toward the subject.
15. Indentify the thesis of your chapter Nikiforuk, most famous for his book on Wiebo Ludwig, "Saboteurs", now returns with a book that looks at the massive oil sands development in Northern Alberta and shows how the reckless out-of-control exploitation of this resource is having a terrible effect on the environment and the health of the local population.
16. Identify when the introduction ends http://blog.sustainablog.org/book-review-andrew-nikiforuk%E2%80%99s-tar-sands-dirty-oil-and-the-future-of-a-continent/ In his recent book Tar Sands: Diry Oil and the Future of a Continent, Nikiforuk lands a knockout blow on the kissers of the oil industry, oil-friendly bureaucrats, and petrol-guzzling North Americans. It is obvious that this Canadian is sick and tired of watching his own beloved habitat mutate from a pristine Northern ecosystem to a veritable toxic wasteland. That said, Nikiforuk is clearly perturbed (another “p” word springs to mind…but this is a family-friendly blog). His book combines intensive research with a lively, caustic writing style…sort of enlightened invective. This makes for an astonishingly entertaining read that raises your hackles while raising your awareness about a seriously dangerous issue.
18. Identify the main points Identify the main idea or argument in each stage What is the main idea of this stage? What words or phrases demonstrate the main idea of this section? Nikiforuk continuously holds up the oil industry and the all-too-complicit Canadian governments (federal and provincial) for their nonsensical, outright silly approach to the country’s bitumen reserves. The various names given to this resource are themselves telltale signs of the prevailing mindset. Bitumen, which is basically oil-soaked sand, gets called anything but “tar sands” or “dirty oil” by those reaping the benefits and profits from it. No, for them it is oil, plain and simple. But Nikiforuk is not fooled: “If that lazy reasoning made sense, Canadians would call every tomato ketchup and every tree lumber.”1 Luckily, though, some Canucks like Nikiforuk are not lulled by the sound of gurgling oil…as most of it flows right out of Canada and down south to the United States. Believe it or not, Canada is now a burgeoning player in the global energy market thanks in large part to bitumen. It has become “the largest single exporter of oil to the United States,” bypassing Saudi Arabia and providing “nearly one-fifth of all U.S. oil imports” (2).
21. How can I incorporate my label into a sentence describing what this section is about?But bitumen is a nasty, truly dirty form of oil–perhaps one of the dirtiest forms of oil or any energy source imaginable. “Each barrel of bitumen,” Nikiforuk states, “produces three times as much greenhouse gas as one barrel of oil” (3). Getting it out of the ground (think sucking cold maple syrup through a straw) requires immense amounts of water, terribly destructive collection methods, and intensive alterations to the environment (through pollution, infrastructure, etc.). As the author so strikingly puts it, “bitumen is the equivalent of scoring heroin cut with sugar, starg, powdered milk, quinine, and strychnine” (16). Thus, Nikiforuk argues convincingly, the reckless and desperate turn to bitumen “is a signature of peak oil and a reminder, as every beer drinker knows, that the glass starts full and ends empty” (3). As the world runs out of its precious petrol, desperate measures become required…and just about anything will serve for a quick fix.
22. Conclusion Where does the conclusion begin? Where does it end? But Tar Sands does enough without offering grand, visionary solutions for the problem. Those are fairly obvious, relatively speaking, by this point. The problem so far, though, has been a sort of self-induced haze of blindness for all players in the bitumen game. With Nikiforuk barking and biting at the heels of the oiligarchs stomping around his home turf (i.e., tundra), every Canadian and American will have little difficulty recognizing that bitumen is far too dirty to have a place in the future of our continent.