Welcome to Week 6

Welcome to Week 6 of Course 6.

Your varied topics have found some correlation as we have progressed through this course.

Your assignment for this week is similar to last week's but slightly more involved.

When you are evaluating any type of reading or anything that you hear, you need to be able to understand important words as they are used by the author, and you need to be able to understand what the chapter or lesson is about as a whole. The assignments for the last two weeks have been related to these two important concepts.

The third thing to do when you are evaluating or comprehending something written or heard is to be able to identify the major parts of a communication. So, your assignment for this week is to be aware of the important words (but you will not have to produce a report about them--although you may use such a report to produce some of your posts if you wish), and to try to be able to boil down what the communication is about into a single sentence (but you will not have to produce that sentence unless you failed to do so last week), and finally to identify the major parts of the chapter or lesson.

The report you need this week is tell what the major parts of the chapter or the lesson were.

An example might be a sermon that has three or four points. The points would be the major parts. A chapter may have some headings within the chapter. They would probably identify major parts of the chapter. Sometimes they would be centered. Sometimes they might appear on the left side of the page in bold print, or they might be underlined or appear in italics.

Sometimes an introduction will have a key organizational word in it. Here is an example: "We will look at three ways . . . . " (to do something or accomplish something). Then each of the ways would represent a major part of the chapter. Here is another: "There are four important reasons why this is true." Then each of the reasons would represent a major part of the chapter or speech.

This week's assignment, then is to identify the major parts of a chapter or lesson that you are studying.