What did we explore last semester?
We experienced how text structures help us to read better and ho how authors choose text structures to express their ideas or thoughts.
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A new semester, a new milestone
- What are we going to learn and explore in this new semester?
- Two questions we have to figure out our answers before the end of this semester:
- When we are reading, what are we reading? How do we understand what an author tries to express? That is, what helps us to understand the text we are reading?
- When we are writing, how can we get our ideas or thoughts across? How can we make ourselves clearly understood? What do we have to know and do?
- Some terms we have to be clear about:
- critical thinking
- author / audience
- purpose / perspective / question at issue / Information
- evidence / fact / opinion / interpretation
- critical thinking
- We have to know how to write:
- to entertain
- to inform
- to persuade
- Two questions we have to figure out our answers before the end of this semester: