Today's plan:
- giving a short oral summary on a cause & effect topic
- disscussing How to summarise
- speaking about sources for your poster
- introducing one of the credit assignments: Summary
English for Life Sciences 2
Week 3 Poster part I / How to summarise
How to summarise
Download the handout onto your laptop/tablet or print it out.
Quizlet: Reporting verbs
Practise the meaning of reporting verbs in this Quizlet set.
Writing a practice summary: Recycling aluminium
If you feel like it, read the short text, make notes and write a short summary of 30-50 words. Check with the key, but don't peek!:-) Only when you've finished your own summary.
Cohesion: Pronouns
Practise using pronouns to improve the flow of your text. Check with the key on p. 2
Cohesion: Word forms
Practise using word forms; check with the key on the following page.
Connectors
An overview of logical connectors/linkers
Jamboard for JALS02/04
Examples of logical connectors sorted into categories by seminar group 4
B1 e-book: Connectors
Practise using connectors / linkers to improve the flow and organisation of your text.
Connectors: Causes of Asthma
Read the short text on the causes of asthma and complete it with the right connectors. Check on the following page.
How can you tell that a source is credible?
The CRAAP test is a method to evaluate the credibility of a source you are using.
When conducting research, it’s important to use credible sources. They ensure the trustworthiness of your argument and strengthen your conclusions.
There are a lot of sources out there, and it can be hard to determine if they are sufficiently credible. To help, librarians at California State University developed the CRAAP test in 2004.
- Currency: Is the source up to date?
- Relevance: Is the source relevant to your research?
- Authority: Where is the source published? Who is the author? Are they considered reputable and trustworthy in their field?
- Accuracy: Is the source supported by evidence? Are the claims cited correctly?
- Purpose: What was the motive behind publishing this source?
Credit assignment
You need to draw on at least three sources when preparing your poster.
1. Find a source; it can be an article, a video or a podcast. If it's an article, the word range should be 500-1500; if it's a video or an audio, it should be bout 5-10 minutes long.
2. Make sure that it is credible.
3. Following the strategies discussed in the How to summarise handout, write a summary of 200-250 words for your teammates.
4. Typically, you don't include your opinion in a summary, but here you will write about a 50-word evaluation of the source for your teammates. Explain why you think the source is relevant to the topic of your poster presentation.
5. Submit the summary and your evaluation as one document to the syllabus (Poster project) by Week 5 (14 March, 23:55)
To sum up, the text of the summary will be 200-250 long. In addition to that, you will write about a 50-word paragraph describing the relevance of the source to your poster topic.