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Week 011-Module Understanding Research Skills Part 1
Week 011-Module Understanding Research Skills Part 1
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Understanding Research Skills
Objectives:
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
a. summarize the content of a given passage;
b. recall the steps in summarizing.;
c. use past tense and past perfect tense.
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SUMMARIZING
Steps to Summarize:
Example:
In my opinion, the primary message should be that our company was the “good guy”
and that we needed to keep the “bad guy”, the customer, repeating the mistakes that
contributed to the damage. Only after I delivered the cautionary lecture, spelling out what
needed to be done to prevent damage in transit, did I write that the claim was going to be
satisfied.
One day, when I talked with a salesman who had grown up in rural Iowa, he asked
why I insisted on “ icing the cake with dog food.” He then explained to me that by stressing the
negative I was negating any positive reaction from the customer. The good news was
delivered, but the customer had a bad taste in his or her mouth.
Even though perfection did not occur after that lesson, I did learn to start with the
good news no matter how great the urge was to deliver a lecture. I worked on including the
cautionary instructions in the form of attachments and even videotapes. I also referred to
specific pages or sections in the letters. I left the lecture to the experts and enjoyed being the
nice guy for a change.
-Bill Hargrave, Instructor
College of Business
State University of West Georgia
(Brantley, C. and Miller, M.(2006)
Course Module Effective Communication for
Colleges, p. 139)
In telling of things that have happened in the past, it is
sometimes necessary to tell of one thing that happened before
another.
USES E XAMPLES
Examples:
EARLIER LATER
LATER EARLIER
Examples: -t
Base Form Past Tense Past Participle
keep kept kept
sleep slept slept
Examples: no change
Base Form Past Tense Past Participle
run ran run
come came come
read read read
Examples: vowel alterations
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Practice:
Think of a series of historical events. Construct 5
sentences using past tense and past perfect tense.
Example: Ormoc Fashflood and Yolanda Tragedy
Sentence: Ormoc had experienced flashflood before it
experienced Yolanda tragedy.
Glossary
Citation – any academic material taken from other sources, incorporating it into
one’s work and commending the author or writer whom the original work was
adapted.
Summary - a shortened form of an original text.
Past participle - are a nonfinite verb form in English that perform, also referred to
as -en participles, passive participles, and perfect participles.
References:
Books and Journals
Brantley, C. and Miller, M. ( 2007) Effective Communication for Colleges.
Singapore. Thomson South Western
Calmorin, L.P. and Calmorin, M. ( 1995) Methods of Research and Thesis Writing.
Manila. Rex Book Store
Celce – Murcia, M. and Larsen Freeman, D. (200). The Grammar Book: An ESL/ EFL
Teacher’s Course. 2nd Edition. Singapore. Heinle .
Dapat, JR, O( 2013) Applied English for Academic and Professional Services.
Manila , Philippines. JFS Publishing
Avoiding Plagiarism and Citing Sources - CSE StyleP. (n.d.). Retrieved from
https://usu.instructure.com/courses/31801/pages/summarizing?module_item_id=
20535. Retrieved on 19, April 2017
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