Wiki Summary of "The New Imperialism & Africa in the Global Electronic Village"
Brief Description
Create a "Wiki" post and compose a wiki-styled summary of "The New Imperialism & Africa in the Global Electronic Village."
Detailed Description
Wiki technology provides writers with a new way of collaborating on the production of texts.
This semester you will help yourself to become a better writer in short range of web-writing contexts by working with others to produce wiki-styled summaries of authoritative journals articles.
Your wiki-styled summaries will provide you with the materials you will need to blog with authority and to compose an electronic portfolio that establishes you as a well-rounded 21st century web writer.
To receive credit,
- you and the members of your small-group writing team must complete your summary by the due date
- all members of your writing team must have made significant contributions to each summary, as demonstrated in the document revision history (4+ revisions)
- your writing team must follow Rosen's guidelines for writing summaries (255-66).
After you read and divide the assigned reading into sections (Rosen's guidelines for writing summaries), you will need to enter a number of things into your summary wikipage:
- one-sentence summaries of each stage of thought
- a one- or two-sentence summary of the entire passage
- a draft / revision of your summary
Because your purpose in composing a summary entry is apply Rosen's strategy for summarizing academic texts, I cannot give passing credit for entries that do not adhere to Rosen's guidelines for writing summaries.
Eliminate Form of the Verb "Be
"Be" in almost all of its forms leads to bloated and unclear writing. Eliminating unncessary forms of the verb "be" can help you to write more concisely and clearly.
For this reason, you are to eliminate all unnecessary forms of the verb "be":
- am
- are
- is
- was
- were
- be
- being
- be
Motive: wiki-styled posts that contain more than three instances of "be" cannot receive higher than a grade of 4.
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