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TEXT 7: Japanese Aesthetics

ANTICIPATION

1. Work in groups to anticipate the text.

2. Check the following information and compete the chart below:

Title “The Moral Dimension of Japanese Aesthetics”

Author
YURIKO SAITO.
Source revista de estética y crítica de arte
Date of Publication
Dec 2007
Length of the whole
12 páginas
article
Field of study

3. What do you know about Japanese aesthetics? Discuss with your classmates.

4. Look at the flyer on the following page. What information does it present? What
does it advertise? What relationship is there with the text we are going to read?
What is your hypothesis?
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5. Now, start work with the excerpt (text 7). Scan the first paragraph. Look for
subjective discursive signals. Underline them. What’s the author’s purpose? State it
clearly.
6. What relationship is there between the author’s purpose and the information
presented in the flyer?
7. Scan paragraph boundaries. As you do so circle 8 key words and phrases.
8. Were you able to find text semantic organization? If not, choose another reading
strategy, apply it and explain text semantic organization.
9. Choose subtitles for the paragraphs. These subtitles must indicate semantic
organization.
10. Design an outline showing how the text is organized.

VERIFICATION

1. Explain the phrase “the same design strategy” (paragraph 3)

2. What’s the correlative of “not only” (appears twice in paragraph 8)? What ideas are
linked in each case? Explain fully.
3. What does “this principle of artistic production” (last paragraph) refer back to?
4. Make a list of Japanese aesthetic characteristics.
5. Choose 3 paragraphs you think are the most important. Rank them from 1 to 3 (1 being
the most important) and support your choice.
6. Look for the following connectors in the text. Underline them. With the help of the
Dictionario de Gramática Funcional explain the function these connectors generally
have and then explain the ideas each of them join in the text.
However (paragraph 3)
Although (paragraph 4)
In addition (paragraph 9)
Whether (paragraph 13)
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INTERNALIZATION
1. Work individually and write the main idea of the excerpt in one well written sentence.
2. Share your production with your companions. Compare and contrast what you have
written. Be ready to make any modification needed to improve your version.
3. Submit your production via virtual classroom.
4. Go back to the outline you designed in the ANTICIPATION stage. What do you need to
add or change in order to present a graphic and semantic representation of the text?
Work in groups and design a final outline.

METACOGNITIVE REFLECTION
Think of your performance during this first part of the course. Fill in the following chart.

READING PROCESS AND STRATEGIES USED SO FAR

MY STRENGTHS:

MY WEAKNESSES:

MY FUTURE OBJECTIVE /s:

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Letras – UBA

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