Self-TEST your Understanding of Reading Strategy

Here is a short self test for you.

5minute self test What do you find difficult about reading at university? Tick the boxes below:

 Finding enough time and energy
 Maintaining concentration
 Improving speed
 Managing vocabulary
 Selecting what to focus on in texts
 Understanding new, theoretical or detailed information
 Identifying main points and arguments
 Evaluating evidence
 Identifying similarities and differences between texts
 Reading texts that assume background knowledge & experience
 Reading different types of text (case studies, reports, literature reviews etc.)

It is very much POSSIBLE that you TICK all the above areas. I am giving you the Reading SKILLS Improvement Link to the ORIGINAL document that gives you some great advice on Improving Reading Skills. Believe there is not 27 - BUT only ONE way to improve writing ability - by WRITING regularly!

Saturday WRITING Workshop | More Announcements to Follow

 

This Saturday (6th April), a Writing Workshop was held in Room No 9064 with eight participants. Among other things we discussed the follwoing:

1. Art in the Age of Industrial Reproduction (in connection with modern men's ability to focus on fast-moving images)
2. Sleep-wakeup-breakfast cycle
3. Food Box for students who spend full day-time out of home
4. We worked on a couple of Writing Exercises
5. We also discussed a few films where men and women working under modern ecnomic systems are discussed - all these films are Directed by Satyajit Roy. 
6. The participants received Note-books with the compliments from Expolink Resources Ltd. The note-books are specially produced for Expolink's YES (Young Entrepreneurs' School) initiative.   
7. We have also decided that there will be at least ANOTHER Writing Workshop in this month. 
8. The second workshop will specifically focus on Presentation Skills and Professional Writing. 
9. We had Refreshments as well!

Note Taking - Strategies - Try to incorporate these in your NOTE-taking Practices

How WORDS Operate

WORDS operates on two different planes. Words can identify either a CONCEPT or an OBJECT. This identification is done through SOUND or SIGN. Notice the illustration. Here, Coffee is the sign. But this cup of Coffee can also identify "Our Memories". Coffee denotative, Memories is connotative.
So, every word has TWO sides of a meaning - (1) Denotative / Literal, (2) Connotative / Metaphorical

So, when you look up a word in a Dictionary, you are only looking at the Denotative. But when you are reading a TEXT, you often find something with an INNER / Connotative meaning. On Page 362 of the book Organizaitonal Behaviour, you will find the following sentence. "What Cochran did next—hit the Send key—seemed so innocuous." The word "innocuous" is a Medical term which means "harmless". The original denotative meaning is the "Condition of the body under a particular "antigen" which makes the body able to survive against a foreign microbial invasion." ডান পাশের ছবিতে দু’টো অর্থ - (১) এক কাপ কফি, (২) কফির কাপে ঝড় - এখন বলুন কোনটা Denotative / Literal আর কোনটা Connotative / Metaphorical ?

Late Submissions of First Assignments

I received 8 late submissions of our First Asignments which was given at least 3 months ago. I understand that everyone had a problem to take note of. I am veyr sympathetic to your problems. However, if this becomes a habit then you become victim of your inactions in a moment of emergency. The writing took a total of 40 min. These are handwritten as well. So, if you are unable to submit through e-mail - submit through a hard copy. The following students Submitted Morning Walk assignment as Classwork. 

1. Zihad Bhuiyan
2. Nahidul Hasan
3. Mostafizur Rahman
4. Touhid Hasan
5. Shuvo Deb
6. Rejoun Shorif
7. Marwa Kazi Mohammed
8. Md. Zayadul Islam

May I request you to submit your assignment on Free Market Economy as corrosive influence on your morality? I am aware that you are busy preparing for the exam - but preparing this assignment will help you with Writing and Critical Thinking - and will help you in your EXAM performance.  

Letter to the Non-conformists

Dear Student,

Subject: Regarding your failure to submit all 3 assignments given so far in FSD-3 course over the past two months  

I hope you are fully taking advantage of FSD-3 Course. Under this course you are required to submit as many as 5 assignments. Three (3) assignments have already been given in the class. Unfortunately, you did not submit any of the assignments, nor did you give any acceptable reason for non-submission.

Under the circumstances, you will not receive any score out of 30 (10+10+10) in three assignments. There will be 2 more assignments that will carry 20 marks. If you fail to submit any of the five assignments, you will not be allowed to take part in the forthcoming FSD-3 Course Final.

I really want you to take good note of this letter to you. If you face any difficulty in writing this assignment, explain it in the following part of this page. Separate this part and submit immediately in the class.

Best wishes,

Shahidul Mamun

FSD-3 Course Teacher

Department of Organization Strategy & Leadership, DU

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Submit this part to the Course Teacher

Name & Roll of Student:   ……………………………………………………………………………..

1.     I could not submit any of the 3 assignments because …

2.     For writing the assignments, I need help in ...

Urgent Notice for Students Failing to Submit Assignments

Following students failed to send me ANY of the THREE Assignments given in the Class. They are required to meet me in person after class on Wednesday in the Department Office. Failing to submit any assignment will result in a FAIL in FSD-3 Course. If you FAIL to submit all 5 Assingments will will NOT be allowed to participate in Course-Final Exam.

1. Md. Shahadat Hossain
2. Rakib Rana Masud 
3. Md. Maruf Hasan
4. Nure Alam Rifat 
5. Asraful Islam
6. Tahsin Ahmed
7. Sumaiya Zafreen
8. Md. Rifat Molla
9. Marjan Akter
10. Md. Ebne Al Maruf

Those who submitted just ONE Assignment, are immediately required to submit others as well.