2 Renderà the text without trying to learn it by heart. Are you happy with the result of your rendering?
à Mind that when you render a text you just tell in your own words its main ideas. You can change the form of the text or sequence of the ideas expressed in it, but you do not give your own extensions.
3 There's a way for you to cope with rendering easily. Read Appendix b and find out how simple it is to retell a text if you base your retelling on its Cognitive Map.
Now make a Cognitive Map of the text from Task 1 and render it again.
Discuss the effects of cognitive mapping with your groupmates. Does the technique work for you?
4 Try some more cognitive mapping. Read Texts 1 and 2, draw Cognitive Maps for them and render the texts with the help of the Cognitive Maps built by you.
Text 1
In the Middle Ages with the help of the word ‘universitas’ (in Latin ‘sets of universus’ that is holistic combination of many) different communities were called, such as comradeships, merchants‘ guilds, trade-production shops etc. On analogy other newly appearing communities, such as open schools started to be called ‘universitas magistrorum et scholarium’ (as corporation) of teachers and students); and only with time the educational establishments started to be called u. first ‘studium’ school, then ‘stadium generale’ or general school; the attribute ‘generale’ pointed out at the international character of an educational establishment; later the term started to mean the curriclum of higher schools which unites the whole set of sciences (‘universitas literarum’).
(Smirnov, S.A. Russian higher school: on the way to new institutions
Retrieved from: http://www.antropolog.ru/doc/persons/smirnov/smirnov17)
Text 2
University institution of higher education, usually comprising a liberal arts and sciences college, graduate and professional schools and having the authority to confer degrees in various fields of study. A university differs from a college in that it is usually larger, has a broader curriculum, and offers graduate and professional degrees in addition to undergraduate degrees.
Reading charts and tables |
A Chart is
a simple outline map on which information can be plotted or written.
a sheet giving information in the form of diagrams, tables and illustrations.
(Chart. In Webster’s New World of the American Language)
A Table is
a compact, systematic list of details, contents, etc.;
a compact arrangement of related facts, figures, values, etc. in orderly sequence, and usually in rows and columns, for convenience;
a reference as the multiplication table.
(Table. In Webster’s New World of the American Language)
1 On the following three pages there are several charts: 1) the structure2 of Vilnius University 2) the structure of the Belarusian State University 3) the structure of a Faculty. Study them and draw your own сhart representing a four-level structure of a university as a higher educational establishment.
RECTOR
(Rector’s Office)
