Transcript The Challenge of College Education
The Challenge of College Education
From
What Every Freshman Should Know
by Roger W. Holmes
Outline
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1. Warm-up Questions
What do you expect from college?
What can we get from college education?
What do you think of college learning?
What do you think of college teaching?
What do you think of classes?
What do you think of exams?
2. Text Type
Narration Description Exposition Argumentation
记叙文 描述文 说明文 议论文
a movie a picture a lecture a debate What kind of exposition, why, how, or what?
And what is explained?
3. Main Ideas
Summarize the main ideas of paragraph s . If there is a topic sentence, pick it out.
1) 2) 3) 4) 5) You come to college to get a liberal education.
Elect your courses with care.
Do not select your courses with an eye to … The first thing you must learn is to stand … In gaining this perspective, you must come to know 6) the nature, 7) the society, 8) the creative spirit, 9) the tools of language and of thought.
3. Main Ideas
Summarize the main ideas of paragraph s . If there is a topic sentence, pick it out.
10) It will give you necessary breadth.
11) You must also specialize (why and how).
12) You should devote the other half of your… 13) You will have intellectual balance and …
4. Structural Diagram
Introduction Breadth Specializing Conclusion 1 Why college 2 With care 3 Not for jobs 4 Own ideas 5-10 Program 11 Specialize 12 Intensive S 13 Balance & 5
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6 Nature 7 Society 8 Spirit 9 Tools 10
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5. Text Pattern
Sequence / time Space Compare-contrast Advantage-dis.
Cause-effect Problem-solution Topical
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G-S
） 顺序、时间 空间 比较-对比 利弊 因果 问题-解决 话题（总分）
6. Language Points
We have some fairly good ideas on the subject. We do not entirely follow these ideas.
Liberal education, arithmetic, juggle, berth, do justice to, entertain, compel, grip, inflected, conversant, veneer, ally, manipulate, etc.
Your questions?