Review: Unit 2

Topic: Processing and producing academic information-Finding sources

1. What have learnt about the topic?

I have learnt that in academic writing, one has to use variety and different types of sources when writing reports, assignments, projects and other academic writings, the most important thing is not only to use these sources but to understand and identify the difference between sources types, to know what relevant sources to use for my academic writing and to integrate them with my writing. I also learnt  how to locate credible sources, check their credibility and use different referencing methods.

2.what I did or did not enjoy about the lecture?

I did not like the situation where us students did not do our homework, hence we missed out on what the lecturer had prepared for class because what she prepared was part of our homework, but I liked that she improvised the situation by giving us another work we did in class, so in a way we got to benefit something again.

Preview: Unit 3

Topic: Processing information-Using sources

1. What I know or have read about the topic?

What I know about the topic is that I need to process information by using reading strategies such as scanning and skimming through texts, this include using guidelines for these two strategies. I also know that I need to find main ideas and supporting ideas on texts for academic writing, this includes identifying the topic for a paragraph, the main idea for the paragraph, main idea sentence and paragraph structures. The other important method to read and write in academic writing is to use the PEEL method (Point, Explain, Examples and Link) and also to paraphrase ideas.

2. What I did not understand or what I would like to know more about the topic.

I would like to know more about writing the main idea of a paragraph, to know more about paragraph structure, use the PEEL method and paraphrasing ideas.