Leer, hablar y escribir de manera efectiva en contextos académicos: consejos de Armadillo Lab opara las ciencias e ingeniería

READING STRATEGIES TO UNDERSTAND TECHNICAL TEXTS Learning objectives: • Learn and apply a set of reading strategies: pre-reading, skimming, scanning, and showing comprehension through summaries. • Determine and specify a text’s general purpose and the purposes • of its individual paragraphs. • Differentiate 4 types of summaries depending on their audience and purpose. • Write a summary that fulfills the writer’s purpose and also meets audience expectations in terms of length, register, amount of technical jargon, and use of citations. • Write a summary with grammar and vocabulary features that fulfill the writer’s purpose and meet audience expectations. 165