What is a project?
Some activities to develop during the Project
Some activities to develop during the Project
Project Task 1:
1. Define your topic
2. Organize your team
3. State your questions to narrow down the topic
4. Chose the texts types and formats
5. Look for information related to your topic and questions
6. Analyze the information you find from different sources
7. Read the information (highlight, underline, look for unknown words, etc.)
8. Classify and summarize your information
9. Write your own ideas and texts
10. Edit your texts
1. Define your topic
2. Organize your team
3. State your questions to narrow down the topic
4. Chose the texts types and formats
5. Look for information related to your topic and questions
6. Analyze the information you find from different sources
7. Read the information (highlight, underline, look for unknown words, etc.)
8. Classify and summarize your information
9. Write your own ideas and texts
10. Edit your texts
11. Prepare your presentations
GLOBAL ISSUES
Developing
reading academic abilities in the Project
These reading activities intend to illustrate an academic methodology of
text analysis that helps students to recognize text features such as text patterns and structure, paragraph characteristics, main and supporting ideas,
logical relations among ideas, text cohesion and coherence, and word and
grammatical choices. Also, students will question the texts concerning their
context, purpose and audience.
Academic texts will be explored by students considering the following reading activities and analysis:
Academic texts will be explored by students considering the following reading activities and analysis:
Looking for academic texts in databases, academic journals, or websites.
Chose an academic paper of your field of interest. You may find an academic paper in this database:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/journals
The university also counts on databases available for the academic community using the username and password.
http://sinab.unal.edu.co/index.php/recursos-bibliograficos/bases-de-datos
This is one example of academic paper that you can use for the analysis.
https://app.box.com/s/8dcjx4u7ky9jz6zimo3dtpeh5azh5nx3
Chose an academic paper of your field of interest. You may find an academic paper in this database:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/journals
The university also counts on databases available for the academic community using the username and password.
http://sinab.unal.edu.co/index.php/recursos-bibliograficos/bases-de-datos
This is one example of academic paper that you can use for the analysis.
https://app.box.com/s/8dcjx4u7ky9jz6zimo3dtpeh5azh5nx3
Do the following analysis with the paper you chose:
1. Recognition of Topics:
Recognize the topics of the text (Write the keywords of the paper).
2. Analysis of sections of the text:
Identify the titles, subtitles, and headings. Write on the margins the sections of the paper (introduction, paragraphs with specific ideas or topics, conclusion)
Design the topic outline of the article:
Thesis: -------- Introduction: -----
1. (Main idea)
A. (Supporting idea)
B. (Supporting idea)
C. (Supporting idea)
2. (Main idea)
A. (Supporting idea)
B. (Supporting idea)
C. (Supporting idea)
3. (Main idea)
A. (Supporting idea)
B. (Supporting idea)
C. (Supporting idea)
Conclusion
Look at the following example:
Introduction: The importance of bats for the environment
A. General features of bats
1. Bats Feeding
2. Bats Behavior
B. Benefits and importance for the environment
1. Bats as pollinators
2. Bats as food chain regulators
Conclusion: recommendations to preserve them
Introduction: The importance of bats for the environment
A. General features of bats
1. Bats Feeding
2. Bats Behavior
B. Benefits and importance for the environment
1. Bats as pollinators
2. Bats as food chain regulators
Conclusion: recommendations to preserve them
3. Analysis of Paragraphs:
- Underline or highlight the main idea of each paragraph with one color.
- Underline or highlight the secondary supporting ideas with another color.
- Write the topic of each paragraph in the margins of the text. Remember that the topic of a paragraph is expressed in keywords or concepts. Ex: Common bats behavior
4. Analysis of terminology and parts of speech:
Build a glossary with 15 terms or words from the text. Write the definition of the word in English and the part of speech of it. You can use a monolingual dictionary to define the words:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/diccionario/britanico/
If the word is a specific term of a field of knowledge you can use Technical Dictionaries:
http://www.engineering-dictionary.org/Materials-Science-and-Engineering-Dictionary/
http://dictionary.babylon.com/science/
5. Graphic Organizer:
Organize, classify and summarize the information of the text using an appropriate graphic organizer. Remember that the purpose of a graphic organizer is to represent graphically the main themes or ideas of a text and the logical relations existing among them.
You can use the following graphic organizers according to the text you chose:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/spanish/
http://edhelper.com/teachers/graphic_organizers.htm
You can also design your own graphic with an online tool:
SpiderScribe es una herramienta web online
desarrollada en Flash. Permite generar un mapa al que iremos añadiendo
diferentes nodos arrastrándolos hasta la zona principal de la aplicación,
disponiendo de nodos de textos, de archivos, de imágenes, de localización y de
calendario. Nuestros mapas mentales pueden ser privados o bien permitir el
acceso a una serie de usuarios concretos, ya sea para visualizarlo o bien para
que puedan efectuar modificaciones. Si queremos hacer público nuestro mapa
mental, podemos permitir el acceso a quienes facilitemos el enlace.
Es una aplicación online gratuita que
facilita la creación de diagramas o mapas del tipo brainstorm(lluvia de
ideas). Su servicio posibilita el trabajo colaborativo, la opción de embeber o
incrustar los diagramas en cualquier web, y la exportación de mapas en formato
de imagen. No es necesario crear una cuenta para utilizarlo, aunque para
guardar los mapas online sà es necesario. Su interfaz es muy sencilla e
intuitiva, aunque también limitada en lo que se puede agregar a nuestro mapa.
Perfecta para crear esquemas directos y rápidos, sin elementos que distraigan
de las ideas.
(Tomado
del Curso virtual Producción Audiovisual de Materiales Pedagógicos, Universidad
Nacional - Sede MedellÃn. Profesora Alejandra
Agudelo)
Choose the most appropriate graphic organizer for your project
Take a look at the following examples:
Take a look at the following examples:
6. Analysis of connectors or linking words.
Select 10 sentences from the text that include linking words or connectors. Specify what kind of connector is. Recognizing connectors or linking words will help you analyze the logical relations existing among themes or ideas in the text.
You can find a summary of connectors below:
7. Analysis of word and grammatical choices
Each text uses a range of verb tenses, word choices, or grammatical structures that correspond to its genre and purpose of it. In this activity, you should analyze the main verb tenses, the use of active or passive voice, modals, imperatives, kind of adjectives to describe or give opinions, style (personal or impersonal), level of formality, etc.
8. Analysis of Context, Purpose, and Audience of texts
To recognize the context of a text you should ask questions such as:
Who wrote the text?
When was the text written?
Where was the text written?
Where was the text published?
To recognize the purpose of the text you should consider the following intentions:
Does the text intend to Inform, narrate, recount, describe or illustrate a fact? These are some text types and their purposes:
Recount
Retells past events or
experiences
Sequences events in the
order they happened
Narrative
Tells a story mainly used
to entertain, motivate or teach
Aims to get attention and
maintain interest
Ex: a real life drama, a
fable, a fairy tale story, mystery,
Information Report
Provides information by
stating facts
Describes or classifies
information
Description
Describes the
characteristics of a particular thing
Often used in other text
types
Procedure
Tells how to make or do
something
Give instructions
Ex: a recipe or machine
manual
Discussion
Presents both sides of an
issue
Outlines arguments for and
against the topic
Persuasion - Exposition
States a point of view with
supporting evidence
Influences opinions or
sells something
Response
Describes personal
reactions to a subject or event
May be used for a review,
feedback or an assessment
To recognize the audience of a text you
should ask the following questions?
According to the level of difficulty of the language used, the topics or ideas complexity, the organization of the text, or the level of formality, is the text written for...
-Children
-Elementary students
-High school students,
-University students of any field
-Researchers
-A specific community
These are some sample texts analysis of a Reading Comprehension Class. These students gave permission to share this material with the university community:
Sample 1
Sample 2
Sample 3
Sample 4
According to the level of difficulty of the language used, the topics or ideas complexity, the organization of the text, or the level of formality, is the text written for...
-Children
-Elementary students
-High school students,
-University students of any field
-Researchers
-A specific community
These are some sample texts analysis of a Reading Comprehension Class. These students gave permission to share this material with the university community:
Sample 1
Sample 2
Sample 3
Sample 4
Project Task 2: A Project Proposal Draft
Objective: To complete this task, you must write a project proposal about a chosen academic topic.
Now that you and your group have selected an idea to tackle a problem from our modern world, you will write your own project proposal to participate in the College Challenge Contest to represent our University.
In this second task, you and your group are required to prepare a 800-word to 1000-word written project proposal where you include a 250-word introduction, 150-word objectives, a 200-word plan of action, a 150-word management plan and a 150-word conclusion.
You can use the different models from our learning materials to review some of the concepts you might need to write your proposal:
Instructions
Step 1: Meet your classmates, either online or face to face, to plan your project proposal writing. Take into account the previous discussion you had as a group.
Step 2: Create a document in the group drive folder so you all can share your ideas with all the group members.
Step 3: Write a 800-word to 1000-word project proposal using your own words.
Your project proposal should include:
A 250-word introduction to contextualize your reader about the problem you want to tackle and why it is important to solve it, your solution and its expected benefits.
150-word objectives to delimit the expected outcomes of our project.
A 200-word plan of action to explain exactly what you are going to do in the project.
A 150-word management plan to specify the steps you have to follow through the project.
A 150-word conclusion to synthesize the key points.
- A 100-word biosketch for each member of the group.
Your references using APA style.
Step 4: once your teacher has given you the feedback on the research proposal draft, start making corrections.
Note
Please check the rubric to see the criteria to assess this Learning Task.Rubric
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