I wish you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, that all your wishes come true, and lots of success in your projects.

Dear all,

Today, Nick Peachy posted in his blog a link to a site indicated above. I'm sharing it with you as I consider it will help you in your process of writing in Reading and Composition and in Communicative Competence V.

Dear 2-2010 students,
The links below will give you information about abstracts, what they are, the purpose of writing them, for example. There are some more links at the right hand side of the blog.
Definition at:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abstract

Guidelines at:
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/essays/abstract.html

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/abstracts.html

http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/comp2/abstract.htm

http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/comp2/abstract.htm

After reading the content of the links above, produce your conclusions, they will be useful at the end of this term when you have to write your own abstract.

http://educacion-virtualidad.blogspot.com/2010/04/como-evitar-la-muerte-por-power-point.html

In the address above, you could find excellent information on how to make Power Point presentations which will captivate your audience attention.

This blog was created to exchange experiences with my students of Communicative Competence V, at the Modern Languages Departament, School of Education, University of Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela.

The first assignment for you is to post information about "the problem". But what is "the problem"?. The problem with" the problem" is that it is so common to see things in certain way that one doesn't realize that some of these may represent "the problem".

An example of what is stated above is the fact that students have to create blogs in order to accomplish some tasks indicated by the professors. And as I learnt to work with blogger.com by myself, as I have done with all the other tools provided by the information technology which I use to teach and to communicate with my colleagues around the world, I stated that my students didn't need any help, as happened to me, at least at the beginner's level.

Due to the fact that many of you are not so familiar with this new elements, you haven't created your blogs, so you are not able to fulfill your tasks. And that's "the problem"