Summary writing: Remedy and resource
Apstrakt
Analyzing a corpus of summaries written by second-year students of History and Anthropology (at Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy), the author points to the effectiveness of summary writing in mastering a range of writing/reading skills, particularly those that students have failed to acquire in their earlier education. A considerable emphasis is placed on the relevance of selected information, its coherence and organization, as well as to adopting the appropriate tone/stance while summarizing a text. Given the varied language proficiency levels of the ESP/EAP students in question, the teacher can use summary writing to cover tasks ranging from basic paragraph writing to the more demanding ones such as discourse analysis. Summary writing is here seen not only as a remedial tool and a rich source of material for dealing with the challenges of both writing and reading (basic to advanced) but also as an efficient device for assessing these skills. Hence the author's strong belief that summ...ary writing, as an integral part of an ESP/EAP course, paves the way for mastering other, more complex and more sophisticated academic tasks.
Ključne reči:
text structure / summary writing / remedial tool / relevance / coherence / assessment / academic skillsIzvor:
Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes, 2016, 4, 3, 689-699Izdavač:
- Univerzitet u Nišu, Niš
Institucija/grupa
Strani jezici / Foreign languagesTY - JOUR AU - Vlahović, Nina PY - 2016 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2128 AB - Analyzing a corpus of summaries written by second-year students of History and Anthropology (at Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy), the author points to the effectiveness of summary writing in mastering a range of writing/reading skills, particularly those that students have failed to acquire in their earlier education. A considerable emphasis is placed on the relevance of selected information, its coherence and organization, as well as to adopting the appropriate tone/stance while summarizing a text. Given the varied language proficiency levels of the ESP/EAP students in question, the teacher can use summary writing to cover tasks ranging from basic paragraph writing to the more demanding ones such as discourse analysis. Summary writing is here seen not only as a remedial tool and a rich source of material for dealing with the challenges of both writing and reading (basic to advanced) but also as an efficient device for assessing these skills. Hence the author's strong belief that summary writing, as an integral part of an ESP/EAP course, paves the way for mastering other, more complex and more sophisticated academic tasks. PB - Univerzitet u Nišu, Niš T2 - Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes T1 - Summary writing: Remedy and resource EP - 699 IS - 3 SP - 689 VL - 4 DO - 10.22190/JTESAP1603655V ER -
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Vlahović, N.. (2016). Summary writing: Remedy and resource. in Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes Univerzitet u Nišu, Niš., 4(3), 689-699. https://doi.org/10.22190/JTESAP1603655V
Vlahović N. Summary writing: Remedy and resource. in Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes. 2016;4(3):689-699. doi:10.22190/JTESAP1603655V .
Vlahović, Nina, "Summary writing: Remedy and resource" in Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes, 4, no. 3 (2016):689-699, https://doi.org/10.22190/JTESAP1603655V . .