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Dear students, first of all I wish
you a Happy New Year 2024 and welcome

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into the second semester.

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This semester is going to be very
similar to what you had in the

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first semester in terms of assessments.

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You will have some exercises to
do with the deadline to respect

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and all your exercises should be

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posted on the platform at midnight

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on Sunday.

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You will be informed about the
deadline you have to respect.

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So this is going to be the first
part of your evaluation.

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The second part of your evaluation,
just like what you had in the first

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semester, you will have a test
and it will be on a very specific day.

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We will agree on the day and this
is going to be your second part

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of the mark which is going to be
50% for all the exercises and 50%

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for what I call the final exam.

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Our topic for this semester is
going to be trying to understand

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and learning, trying to learn how
to write a synthesis.

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This is what I'm going to be focused
on in this semester.

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So we are going to go through the
different steps of the writing

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of a synthesis which means that
we are going to start of course

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with the reading, I'm going to
show you some few tips and what

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it requires to get to a good
understanding of text.

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We are going to work on how to
sum up a text, sum up the different

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parts of the paragraph and how
to develop the different themes,

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how to choose the different themes.

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Of course, you will have to highlight
the interest of the different

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documents.

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The theme is going to be most of
the text I'm going to give you

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for us to put all this into practice
are going to be around the notion

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of mainstream media versus social
media.

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Synthesis, why is the writing of
a synthesis very important?

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Because this is what you will have
to do in the next years in M1.

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For example, if you're planning
to do M1 in communication and

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information, communication media,
this is what we ask our students to do.

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So this semester, I'm going to
show you how to get to that final

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result.

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So this video was just an introduction
telling you what we are going to

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be doing this semester.

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I tell you, I see you next week
and I'm going to send you some

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documents that you have to read
and some exercises that you have to do.

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See you next week, thank you.