Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Article Review - Weekly Assignment

Article Review – Weekly Assignment

To build your knowledge about world and local issues as well as your language and style of writing, you MUST read the newspaper (The Straits Times) as well as other news resources at home or outside curriculum time. Use the class time to discuss issues and to analyse the articles. You need content before you can discuss. Besides reading articles on issues in the world, prime news and home news, you must also read:

a) the Review page

b) the ‘Special Report’ page (Saturday)

c) the ‘Think’ page (Sunday)

d) the Forum page

These are particularly the type of language, information and style required for GP by the Cambridge examiners.

Your choice of article reviews should come from either (a), (b) or (c). The categories are unlimited - ranging from biotechnology to philosophy. Well, it is GENERAL paper so any topic under the sun, as long as it is an issue would be of interest. The more controversial the topic, the more arguments can be found. You can also select opinion pieces from online newspapers. The links can be found in various GP blogs.

Resources needed for article review

For this assignment, you will need an article, a good dictionary (Collins/ Oxford/ Webster), a worksheet and your word bank book. Online dictionary (www.m-w.com)

Please make copies of the worksheet template so that you can complete the article review.

Format for article review

  1. State the Topic, Source, Date, Title, Author

Example

Topic: Corporate Social Responsibility

Source: The Straits Times/ Review

Date: 21 March 2007

Title: Not a black-and-white issue

Author: David Vogel

  1. Paste the article on a blank white A4 or A3 size paper. OR Print the article out.
  1. Use the article review template (worksheet) to review the article.
  1. Submit the worksheet, mindmap, article (in that order) to your GP rep by Monday 2 pm.

GP Rep is to put the collected article reviews and class list (indicating those who did not hand in) in my pigeon hole.

  1. If you are unable to submit on time, please stay back at the library to complete.

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