Assignment Questions Early Childhood
EARLY CHILDHOOD DISTANCE LEARNING
ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS
Study skills
Read through the Study Skills module and thealterations to the MCI protocol for referencing, quotations and bibliographies – Appendix 1 to your Student Handbook.
Use these as a guide, complete the following tasks and submit them to your tutor forassessment (on or before the due date given in your assignment schedule). There will be no marks awarded for this assignment, but the skills gained herein will be essential for all of your laterassignments.
Assignment 0
i. Writing a précis
Look at the section on Effective reading (Study Skills module, pg 14).
Here you will find suggestions on the most efficient way to read a sectionof text.
← Initially, read through the entire section you have selected, taking no notes.
← Then read it a second time, taking notes (see Chapter 3 of the Study Skills module).← Finally scan through the text a third time, altering or adding to your notes if necessary.
These three points above are a précis of the notes you have just read on pg 14. A précis is acondensed summary of the most important elements of a section of text – an abbreviation of the paragraphs or chapter in question, containing the main points and omitting minor details. Even though it iswritten in your own words, it is a true reflection of the author’s voice, and contains none of your own ideas, thoughts or value judgments.
Being able to write a précis of a text is a valuable studyskill.
Using the technique laid out in pg 14 of your Study Skills module, read through and write a précis of the section headed “The Origin of Our Method” (pages113 -118) in your text book The Secretof Childhood.
ii. Reading, Analysis and Reflection
Another important study skill to develop is to be able to analyze a section of text (or two related articles), and then to reflect on this...
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