Semester 1 Material (P)review

Reading and Writing for General Communication 

This course contains material that can be used to obtain information or describe information related to articles, journals, or English books.
The main points of the courses I have studied are

1. Scanning
Speed ​​reading is a way to find information without reading the whole , but we only need to find the key (key word).
Its use in everyday life
1. Look up a number in the phonebook
2. Look up a specific word in the dictionary

2. Previewing and Predicting
Previewing and predicting is a reading technique by predicting or predicting a text to get extensive information and some material in reading.
The advantage of previewing and predicting is that we can guess whether the text or narrative that we have is in accordance with what we want.

3. Finding Topic and Main Idea
Topic is used as the basis for the subject as a basis in a book.
In my articles include:
1. How to determine the topic
2. How to limit a topic
3. How to make a good topic

4. Terms of a good topic

Main Idea is the essence of a paragraph. The main idea is usually at the beginning, at the end, or both. The discussion includes:
1. How to determine the main idea
2. Characteristics of the main idea
3. Three kinds of main ideas

4. Skimming

Skimming is a speed reading technique by reading only the important points in the text, and ignoring punctuation marks. The discussion includes:
1. How to skimming
2. Skimming process

5. Topic and Topic Sentence of Narrative Text
The Topic Sentence is the main sentence at the beginning of the paragraph which is still in the form of a general sentence and will be discussed in more detail by the sentence explainer.
Narrative text in general is a text about a story that presents events based on the sequence of stories. The event can be an imaginary story or a true story.
Narrative texts generally aim to entertain readers, besides that, narrative texts also aim to add information and broaden their horizons. Even though the stories presented are fiction or just fantasy.

6. Descriptive text

Descriptive text is text that describes or describes a specific object. Descriptive text can contain objects, animals, places, people, etc.
Discussion of text description includes:
1. Characteristics of descriptive text
2. Structure descriptive text
3. Language

7. Comparison and Contrast

Comparison  is an activity to compare something similar. Compare usually shows more similarities between two objects.

Contrast  is an activity to compare two objects. Contrast focuses on the differences between two objects rather than the similarities between the two objects.
The difference between the two is if compare to compare but still look similar. Meanwhile, contrast focuses on specific comparisons.

8. Biography
A biography is a text that contains a person's journey. The purpose of the biography text is that it is hoped that the reader can make the advantages of the character an example for many people. Discussion of the biography text includes:
1. Biography text features
2. biography text type
3. structure of biography text
4. language rules

Thank you, this is what I copied from my own article.

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