Enhancing Professional Capacities (EPC)

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What is a summary?

“A brief statement or account of the main points of something.”

-------Oxford Dictionary

A summary is a record in a reader's own words that gives the main points of a piece of writing such as a newspaper article, the chapter of a book, or even a whole book. It is also possible to summarize something that one has heard, such as a lecture, or something that he has seen and heard, such as a movie. A summary omits details, and does not include the reader's interpretation of the original.

A summary is condensed version of a larger reading. A summary is not a rewrite of the original piece and does not have to be long nor should it be long. To write a summary, use your own words to express briefly the main idea and relevant details of the piece you have read.

Importance of Summary Writing:

One of the most highly valued skills in any workplace that generates a lot of words—whether written or spoken—is the ability to effectively summarize that information into a more concise and readable form. That is essentially what summarizing is. Good summaries are valuable because they keep busy readers informed without demanding more time than necessary to get the information they need.

      Writing summaries as you go helps to cement your learning.

       It is important to revisit what you learnt soon after you learnt it, to give it structure and connect it to other information you already learnt.

      Writing your summaries helps you to provide that structure and establish the connections.

      Writing your summaries also refreshes the information in your mind, which helps you to shift the content from short-term to long-term memory via spaced repetition.

      Writing summaries as you go is also important for later memory refreshing activities. It is much faster to find information in summary format that you wrote than to search for it online or in a textbook

      Writing summaries as you go, ensures that your study doesn’t build up in your absence.

       Without up-to-date summaries, studying for exams becomes a larger chore than it should be.

      They develop better understandings of marking criteria and are enabled to go into the exam more confident in their ability to answer the question, rather than simply providing some relevant information.

What is Title?

Titles are an often underutilized tool in student writing. But think about it…if introductions are important because they are the first part of the paper your reader will read, then titles are similarly important because they precede even the introduction. Think about the times when, based primarily on an interesting title, you have decided to read a book, to skim an article, or to follow an online link. That is the power of titles.

 At minimum, titles should reflect paper content (i.e. what the paper’s general topic will be, like an analysis on The Scarlet Letter or exploration of global warming). A strong title will prepare the reader for the paper, giving the reader some idea of what the paper’s argument or slant will be (i.e. What will you be saying about The Scarlet Letter? What position are you taking on global warming?). At best, a title will also be creative and attention grabbing. Titles should.

Writing tasty titles that attract people to your blog posts and make your emails irresistible to click on is a tricky skill to master, but luckily we’ve outlined a few tips that have helped us and can hopefully do the same for you.

1. Capitalize the First Letter of Each Word

This is the style we use when writing our blog post and email titles. By capitalizing the first letter of each word that is not a connecting word and words that are over 5 characters, readers can easily recognize the topic of the post

2. Keep it Short and Sweet

Writing short and sweet titles helps to ensure that the title won’t be cut off when displayed in email inboxes and search engine results. We aim for 50 characters or less; we’re not always spot on, but we try to keep it close.

3. Pack a Punch

Blog post and email titles need to hook viewers quickly before they pass up your content. Often times, the title is the first thing viewers see (and possibly the only thing they read), so keeping the title intriguing can increase the likelihood of viewers clicking.

4. Create Urgency

Creating urgency in your titles is about implementing that must-read feeling into your viewers upon reading the title. What qualifies as urgent largely depends on your target audience.

5. Stay Timely and Relevant

Even though part of the blog post writing process involves planning out your posts in advance, once in a while you’ll want to steer away from the plan to make room for time sensitive topics..

6. Things to Avoid

When writing titles for blog posts or marketing emails, we suggest avoiding the following words and punctuation styles:.

Objectives of Title Writing :

      To critically assess the collection and disposal operations for bulky household waste in order to identify factors, which contribute to performance and technical efficiency.

      Be concise and brief.

      Be interrelated; the aim is what you want to achieve, and the objective describes how you are going to achieve that aim.

      Be realistic about what you can accomplish in the duration of the project and the other commitments you have

      Provide you and your supervisor(s) with indicators of how you intend to:
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o   approach the literature and theoretical issues related to your project.

o   access your chosen subjects, respondents, units, goods or services.

o   develop a sampling frame and strategy or a rationale for their selection.

o   develop a strategy and design for data collection and analysis.

o   deal with ethical and practical problems in your research.

      Be too vague, ambitious or broad in scope.

      Just repeat each other in different terms.

      Just be a list of things related to your research topic.

      Contradict your methods - i.e. they should not imply methodological goals or standards of measurement, proof or generalisability of findings that the methods cannot sustain.

Properties of Title Writing:

      Informative Identify one or two main points in the paper to communicate to the audience; a good title is capable of conveying those points. Be as specific as possible without adding unnecessary details. Titles that are too vague or too general do not help the reader distinguish your work from others. Choose words carefully, cognizant that prospective readers will often find your article through electronic searches.

      Accurate The title should be truthful about the contents of the paper. Do not overpromise the results of the paper in the title.

      Clear The audience should not have to think about what the title means. Different people may interpret the title differently, so ask a number of people to critique your title and tell you what they think the paper is about before they even read it.

      Concise Short titles are instantly recognizable and jump of the page. Every word should have a reason for being present, and each word should contribute to the message of the title.

      Attention commanding Not all research projects can produce an attention-commanding title, nor do all projects need them. But, if you can meet the other four criteria and have a choice between a pedestrian title and one that is a bit provocative, consider the provocative one. Ideally, titles should strive to adhere to these five characteristics. However, not all may be met or can be met in one title. For example, to write an attention-commanding title, often you have to sacrifice being less clear or informative. How much concision are you willing to give up in order to be accurate? Clearly, these are decisions for the author to make.

Topics 10 Topics

(Write down any 10 topics and summarize it in 6/7 lines with a suitable title.)

The Importance of Practicum

What is a Practicum?

Practicums (also called internships or work placement programs) are designed to provide students with practical work experience. is an experience that requires the practical application of theory or conceptual knowledge. Most types of professional education—whether in medicine, nursing, law, pharmacy, speech therapy, or social work—wisely employ some form of practicum, internship, or preceptorship to help the student learn how to apply knowledge and general principles to real situations, problems, and concerns.

Why is a Practicum Important?

1. To help students translate into practice in a particular setting the concepts and principles taught in the classroom.

 2. The learning opportunities are designed to enable a candidate for a Human Social Services degree to develop and exhibit a professional level of work performance. Students are expected to accomplish this through: a. Indicating by their performance an internalized sense of professional identity that causes them to

•  think, feel and act in accordance with the values and responsibilities of that profession,
• analyze and assess their own professional activities, and
• accept a continuing responsibility for their own professional development
• Approaching problem-solving tasks or helping interventions in a way that reflects a spirit of inquiry, a capacity for conceptual thinking, a grasp of the structure of knowledge and theory pertinent to a particular problem.
• Using in a variety of problem-solving tasks involving individuals, groups and communities, the technique essential to all professional practice, inquiry, analysis, assessment, planning and action to implement change strategies.
• Using in purposeful professional relationships a disciplined self-awareness and control a genuine concern for people, and understanding of them, their capacities, their problems and the social systems with which they interact.
• Demonstrating in discussion and field practice, a personal and professional commitment to participate responsibly in efforts to alleviate social problems, improve social functioning, effect social change and contribute to the research and knowledge needed to achieve these objectives.