lectures in Business

1 Listen to 2 excerpts on lectures in Business and practise your note-making skills; remember ‘digressions’, repetitions and reformulations.

„Try reconstructing the main points of the excerpts to each other. Did you use a table? A spider diagram? Any symbols?

„Sell Your Ideas the Steve Jobs Way – 10 min 14sec

„http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q-wvAIeUgk ©

„Introduction to Resume Writing – 5min 36sec

„http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJhOysNFDRc&list=PLC1C7CDF6B3349271  ©

„The Best Way to Succeed – 10 min 17 sec

„http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- 2m6JkJvv4w ©

„Art and Decoration in Ancient Egypt – Emily Teeter at the University of Chicago – 15  min    15 sec

„https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oLmwLvroxU ©

2 Compare the differences from an academic paper and 1 newspaper article , answer the four questions in 500 words:

How are they structure?

What is the core argument?

How does the writer use evidence to back up his/her ideas?

Do you prefer the style of one essay/ article to another?

3 Finding 3 articles and paraphrase it.

4 Finding an essay and report and write differences from essay and report (400 words)