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Research Process Seminar: Term 1. Week 6, 7/11/2013

Text presentation and

Text summary

Artist: John Baldessari

The aims of this session are:

- to go through the text presentation

and text summary assignment

By the end of this session:

- you will understand what text summary must include

- you will know how to do the text summary


SESSION PLAN

-1. Introduction of the session

- 2. the Text presentation and the Text Summary

- 3. Learning Journal

- 4. Wrap up: questions, doubts and comments


2.THE TEXT PRESENTATION AND THE TEXT SUMMARY

PHOT20118Seminar Text Presentation and Summary Submission GuidelinesThe Text Summary is an assessed assignment based on the content of one ofthe seminar texts read in term 1. There is a text for each seminar which allstudents should read and make notes on prior to the seminar. Central to eachseminar is a presentation of the selected text by a group of two to fourstudents. All students participate in one of these groups during term 1 asthere is an assessment criteria associated with the presentation itself.



PHOT20118Seminar Text Presentation and Summary Submission GuidelinesThe Text Summary is an assessed assignment based on the content of one ofthe seminar texts read in term 1. There is a text for each seminar which allstudents should read and make notes on prior to the seminar. Central to eachseminar is a presentation of the selected text by a group of two to fourstudents. All students participate in one of these groups during term 1 asthere is an assessment criteria associated with the presentation itself.

ANY QUESTIONS, DOUBTS AND/OR COMMENTS

ABOUT THE TEXT PRESENTATION?



PHOT20118Seminar Text Presentation and Summary Submission Guidelines

-What is a text summary?

Summary: noun (plural summaries)a brief statement or account of the main points of something.

Summary: Outline, synopsis, core, condensation

Your summary should be a reasonable representation of the whole text, not just part of it.




-How to do it?The summary should be put together from the notes that you have made as you worked through the reading, and should as far as possible be in your own words. You must stick to the word count (650 words).This demonstrates your skill at being able to sift through the material to decide which are most relevant points of the text.




-Why?The main purpose is to read and understand the meaning of the text and then to demonstrate you can put text's main ideas into your own words. It is possible to make quite different summaries from each text.Remember, there are no simple ‘right answers’ as such; however, beingaccurate in defining an issue is often a measure of how closely you havefollowed the author’s arguments. The evidence is in the reading andtranslation. You must be careful not to get caught up in flights of fancy, or inexpressing your own opinion, or in giving an account of the seminar activityitself. It is the text and its ideas you are summarising.




Others

Normally your summary will be on the text that you have presented to yourseminar group.

NTU formal guidelines Top of the first page: word count, your name and the title and reference of the article or chapter.Submission date: by noon, 6 December 2013.




Others

Normally your summary will be on the text that you have presented to yourseminar group.

NTU formal guidelines Top of the first page: word count, your name and the title and reference of the article or chapter.Submission date: by noon, 6 December 2013.



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3. Learning

Journal


4. Wrap up:

questions, doubts and

comments

Education

20131107 s61 presentation