Harneet Braich
September 09, 2019
Writing Assignment 3
• Gustavo Dudamel and Simon Bolivar’s Youth Orchestra TED TALK
This video was about Dudamel, who is considered to be the greatest young conductor in the world. This performance was live and it was Maestro Abreu’s great proteges. The music was very dramatic and fast, almost suspenseful. There were lots of flutes, trumpets, violins, and saxophones. After this piece was done, Dundamel spoke out for what music meant to him and then continued to conduct a Danzon No.2 by Arturo Marquez. In my opinion, I liked this piece better than the first one that was played. This piece was dramatic but slow. The solos by the flutes were carried out very nicely. This piece flowed so smooth, and then later started getting more dramatic and fast (which I did not expect at all), then went back to being smooth, and finished off strong.
• Teaching Students with Hearing Losses
This article written by Alice-Ann Darrow gave me an insight as to how kids that are hard-of-hearing can listen to music. Now because listening alone wouldn’t be effective, the students are encouraged to listen to music, sing, play instruments, move to music, create, and read music. The teacher must present the music that is considered as the students’ strength. The author argues that just because you are hard-of-hearing, doesn’t mean you are musically inclined; and that is something I agree with. A weak point was when the author said the primary educational objective is the development of communication skills. Students should not be forfeited just because communication is “more important”.
Begin your draft with an outline or by free writing.
If so, sketch out a brief outline of the article and relate it to your initial annotations submitted to Writing Assignment 3. You may also free write your thoughts on the article.
Find connections within the article from your annotations and create new connections within this first draft.
Now you can begin your summary or continue free-writing with specific connections to your annotations.
You should have a robust draft with many ideas that can be reworked and pared down.
Include additional information and research that supports your view and opinion. If necessary, identify sections that will require additional research and information to support your view.
Summarize the article. Consider the following points when writing your summary:
Introduce the article’s title, name of the author, and the author’s thesis statement or the central point.
Maintain a neutral tone and be objective.
Use the third person perspective and use the present tense.
Focus on the text. Limit your comments to presenting the text’s key points.
Write all/most of your summary in your own words. If you borrow a phrase or sentence from the text, place the phrase or sentence in quotation marks and give the page number in parentheses.
Do not state the author’s ideas as your own.
Be concise.
Analyze the article. Use your annotations to identify sections in the article that need clarification as well as significant or meaningful details. Consider the following questions when writing your analysis:
What is the author’s thesis or central idea?
What questions does the author address?
Who is the audience (who is the author writing to)?
How does the author relate key points to one another? How is the article structured?
What strategies does the author use to generate interest in the argument and to persuade readers of its merit?
What evidence does the author use to support the thesis? How persuasive is the evidence?
Does the author anticipate objections and/or opposing views?
Does the author use faulty reasoning?
Use MLA format.
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