Calendar Post for September 2

• In preparation for our Academic Summary assignment, which asks you to summarize one of three possible texts, read Peter Ford’s “China’s green leap forward” and also “How Baoding, China, becomes world’s first ‘carbon positive’ city" (both texts have been uploaded to drop.io). Notice that they appeared alongside one another in the August 10, 2009 edition of The Christian Science Monitor. How does this text speak to the ideas Thomas Friedman wrote about two years earlier (in "The Power of Green")?

• Choose one of the critical reading strategies that you reviewed on PHG p. 154-155 (the Double-Entry Log or the Critical Reading Guide) and as you consider Ford’s texts, apply that strategy.

• Download, review, and bring to class our upcoming assignment handout: “Academic Summary: Listening to the Conversation.”