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Activity 20
                                                                                 • The idea of having more
                                                                                   than one person collaborating
                                                                                   on a product is to lessen the
                                                                                   workload on each person and to
                                                                                   cover more sources.
                                                                                 • PSAs offer factually correct
                                                                                   information, hard data, to make
                                                                                   a strong case for the point
                                                                                   raised by them.
                                                                                 • You may use strategies for
                                                                                   reading taken from the practices
                                                                                   from the Recreational and
                                                                                   Literary environment and for
                                                                                   choosing information from the
                                                                                   practices from Academic and
                                                                                   Educational environment. To
                                                                                   look up information, remind
                                                                                   them to use the RB or websites,
                                                                                   if Internet is available.
                                                                                 Activity 21

                                                                                 • Remind your students to
                                                                                   keep their main ideas
                                                                                   short, otherwise they will
                                                                                   unnecessarily lengthen their
                                                                                   PSA. PSAs are short for a reason,
                                                                                   they only deal with one issue at
                                                                                   a time.
                                                                                 • Help your students write their
                                                                                   PSA, using their own words
               rather than copying what is written in the sources they read. In order to do this, they may want to use
               synonyms, change words to make it more apt for their audience, or delete trivial information.
































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