1、comparing three texts and analyze their differences in terms of contexts of usage, communicative purposes, audience, and mode of interaction . fill in the table to summarize the differences.
9. 概述技巧
task for unit 8 & 9 paraphrasing & summarizing skills
1、task for unit8 & 9 paraphrasing and summarizing skills directions: click on the following link to read the section entitled is cancer the result of bad luck? intrinsic and extrinsic causes of cancer and the role of age itself in caner excerpted from molecular mechanisms of the preventable causes of cancer in the united states (golemis et al., 2018, p885-887). apply the paraphrasing and summarizing skills that you have just learnt to write a summary of no more than 500 words. after writing, revise your own version by referring to the instructor’ comments on the two student versions written for this task (see video 9.4). link: http://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/early/2018/06/16/gad.314849.118.full.pdf html reference: golemis, e. a., scheet, p., beck, t. n., scolnick, e. m., hunter, d. j., hawk, e. & hopkins, n. (2018). molecular mechanisms of the preventable causes of cancer in the united states. genes & development, 32, 868-893.
5.学术书面语特点
task for unit 5 features of academic written language
1、task for unit 5 features of academic written language
2. 学术口语
(new) task for unit 2 academic oral presentation
1、give a short presentation (3-5 mins) to introduce a concept/topic from your discipline to an intelligent but non-specialist audience. your presentation should follow what is required of an academic presentation (please refer to the rubrics) as discussed in this unit. record the whole presentation (both the ppt slides and yourself/your voice) and upload it to the mooc platform of this course.
3. 学术听力
task for unit 3 academic listening skills
1、watch the talk “don’t suffer from your depression in silence” (allen, 2017) (https://www.ted.com/talks/nikki_webber_allen_don_t_suffer_from_your_depression_in_silence) , then draw a mind map to illustrate the main idea of the content.
4. 批判性学术听力
task for unit 4 critical listening skills
1、directions: watch the talk “don’t suffer from your depression in silence” (allen, 2017) again (https://www.ted.com/talks/nikki_webber_allen_don_t_suffer_from_your_depression_in_silence ), then (1) revise the mind map you have drawn in the previous chapter to indicate the speaker’s argument(s) as well as the evidences she used; (2) write a paragraph to analyze the strength of her argument(s) by examining how she developed her ideas, i.e. does the speaker give logical argument for her attitude? is the speaker combining logos with pathos?