EALE Lesson 5- second session

Lesson 5 – Note-taking and synthesising  (Weeks 4 and 5)

Extract key information from academic texts
Use a synthesis matrix to begin synthesising key information from the texts

​objectives

​“Traditional hierarchy business structures improved by IT innovation. Discuss”

Match

Match the following

• Discuss

• Business structures

• IT innovation

• Traditional Hierarchy

• Hierarchy

Instructional word

General topic

Restricting word

Focus point

Irrelevant info

• Instructional word

• General topic

• Restricting word

• Focus point

• Irrelevant info

Dropdown

What makes up a general topic sentence in a paragraph​

Select answer

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Select answer

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Select answer

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Audio Response

Explain transitional words, use examples, and explain whether they should or should not be included in your writing.

Open Audio Recorder

​Here are a few things to AVOID:

AVOID constructing the body of your paper out of a series of summaries.
AVOID bombarding your reader with undifferentiated masses of facts, examples, and quotations.
AVOID beginning your paragraphs by presenting quotations or facts from your sources.

​Text 1: How is work organised

Text 2: Information Technology and Restructuring in Public Organizations: Does Adoption of Information Technology Affect Organizational Structures, Communications, and Decision Making?

​15 min

Video Response

Explain how the key information you selected in Text 1 & 2 relates to the topic.

Open Video Recorder

​Text 1:

Text 2:
Was it easy to tell what the key points of the texts are?

Was it easy to tell what the overall message of the texts is?

Are these notes going to be useful to you when writing the paragraph?

Labelling

drag and drop your answers to the synthesised matrix

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

information handling by IT

Reduce number/size of employees/company

Decision making to be centralised

employees don't take responsibility

can't adapt to a change of environment

communication is often poor

Open Ended

looking at your synthesise Matrix, how can you rephrase the topic to show your understanding?

​What are some of the points you wrote on your synthesis?