The Challenge of College Education From What Every Freshman Should Know by Roger W. Holmes Outline Warm-up QuestionsText Type Main IdeasStructural Diagram Text PatternLanguage Points 1. Warm-up Questions What do you expect from college?What can we get from college education?What do you think of college learning?What do you think of college teaching?What do you think of classes?What do you think of exams? 2. Text Type NarrationDescriptionExpositionArgumentation 记叙文 a movie描述文 a picture说明文 a lecture议论文 a debate What kind of exposition, why, how, or what?And what is explained? 3. Main Ideas You come to college to get a liberal education.Elect your courses with care.Do not select your courses with an eye to …The first thing you must learn is to stand …In gaining this perspective, you must come to know 6) the nature, 7) the society, 8) the creative spirit, 9) the tools of language and of thought. Summarize the main ideas of paragraphs. If there is a topic sentence, pick it out. 3. Main Ideas It will give you necessary breadth. You must also specialize (why and how). You should devote the other half of your… You will have intellectual balance and … Summarize the main ideas of paragraphs. If there is a topic sentence, pick it out. 4. Structural Diagram Collegeeducation Specializing Conclusion Breadth Introduction 13 Balance & 12 Intensive S 11 Specialize 4 Own ideas 2 With care 3 Not for jobs 5-10 Program 1 Why college 10 总6Nature7 Society8 Spirit9 Tools 5 总5. Text Pattern Sequence / timeSpaceCompare-contrastAdvantage-dis.Cause-effectProblem-solutionTopical (G-S) 顺序、时间空间比较-对比利弊因果问题-解决话题(总分) 6. Language Points We have some fairly good ideas on the subject. We do not entirely follow these ideas.Liberal education, arithmetic, juggle, berth, do justice to, entertain, compel, grip, inflected, conversant, veneer, ally, manipulate, etc.Your questions?