Owing to the popularity of this workshop, Helen and I decided we would run two parallel workshops. Because you are groups of different individuals (with different questions), Helen and I approached things slightly differently because your questions were somewhat different.
Firstly, you identified what you found challenging about the summarising task:
- Someone said they had difficulty reaching the word limit
- Others found difficulty writing within the word limit
- Somebody else had difficulty moving from 'prose' to the style of writing expected of a summary.
We brainstormed some ideas about how to 'solve' some of these issues. In reaching the word limit, I suggested that planning was a good way to start - perhaps drawing the main ideas in a concept map (note: you need to log on to see this Centra presentation)
I also suggested that in organising your ideas, you use some connecting language in your writing to give the ideas structure - This will come in handy when it comes to doing your reports.
Other resources we discussed were Learningfast (to help you learn how to use Excel) and the web resources developed by careers (where you can find information about cover letters).
Finally, here is the paraphrasing exercise Helen and I did in class.
Until week 7...have a happy and productive break.
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