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PREVIEW
(If It’s Long and Hard)


Previewing is especially useful for getting a general idea of heavy reading like long magazine or newspaper articles, business reports, and non-fiction books.
It can give you as much as half the comprehension in as little as on tenth the time. For example, you should be able to preview eight or ten 100-page reports in an hour. After previewing, you’ll be able to decide which reports (or which parts of which reports) are worth a closer look.
Here’s how to preview: Read the entire first two paragraphs of whatever you’ve chosen. Next read only the first sentence of each successive paragraph. Then read the entire last two paragraphs.
Previewing doesn’t give you all the details. But it does keep you from spending time on things you don’t really want-or need-to read.
Notice that the previewing gives you a quick, overall view of long, unfamiliar material. For short, light reading, there’s a better technique.

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Alien Species : Fitting In
Author: Mark Derr

I choose this article to review because it has good content. In this article I can learn something new about the alien species in our environment. I believe that in this world have so many kind of species whereas plant or animal. From this diversity, probably many kind of them are unfamiliar known by us.

This article tells us about alien species that can never be acceptable in a natural ecosystem. This is an assumption a number of scientist. For example, while applauding efforts to banish harmful organism like the brown tree snakes that have destroyed most of Guam’s native species of forest birds, or the star thistle (a prickly weed that is toxic to horses, and has invaded much of the West) they say that portraying introduced species as inherently bad is an unscientific approach. In quotation, Dr. Michael Rozenzweig said that distinction between exotic and native species are artificial, in fact only a small percentage of alien species cause problem in their new habitats.

The writer message’s want to tell us the reality about the alien species. Author wants to invite all of us to keep the environment and the habitat of alien species still in natural. Furthermore, this will make the world ecosystem, called biosfer keep in balance.

I think it is a good news. I had just known about the fact after reading this article. Excellent!
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Name:Anugraha Putra Pratama
HOW TO LEARN ENGLISH WELL
There are some certain successful steps in learning English. The first step are hear and listen to English well. You can listen to English music or watch film that have English conversation above it. This is can help your ears to become familiar with English words. Second, enrich your vocabulary by reading English newspaper, magazine etc. Third step is try to communicate English with other. It is the most important step because it can develop your communication skill. By communication, we can learn together. Please don’t be afraid to make a mistake because we can learn from it. Practice it as often as you can. Practice makes perfect anything you want to develop.

Name :Anugraha Putra Pratama
Student Number :0806 4521 16
Faculty & Class :MIPA/B.404,Parallel 08


EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Authors: Patricia Holt

I choose this article because this article was very unique. Human Intelligence was become complete. We have complexion in intelligence, such as brain intelligence and emotional intelligence. Both of them are so important. But, emotional has a major function as successful tester. Person who have more in emotional intelligence were become more social, more empathy, and they were self reliant and confident, trustworthy and dependable. And these, have more control in successful of life.

This article tells us about famous ‘impulse control’ test at a San Fransisco lecture by Daniel Goleman, called “The Marshmallow Challenge”. In this test, four-year-old were individually called into a room at Stanford University during the 1960’s. There, a kind man gave a marshmallow to each of them and said they could eat the marshmallow right away, or wait for him to come back from an errand, at which point they would get two marshmallows.

Some of them covered their eyes or rested their heads on their arm so they wouldn’t have to look at the marsmallow, or played games or sang to keep their heads on their arms so they wouldn’t have to look at the marshmallow and waited for the promised double prize. Others, about a third of the group, simply watched the man leave and ate the marshmallow.
What is surprising about this test, a dozen years later the same children were tracked down as adolescents and tested again. The ones who had resisted eating the marshmallow were clearly more socially competent than the others.

The author explain about recent discoveries in brain research that prove emotional stability is more important than IQ in determining an individual’s success in life. People that have better in emotional intelligence is more sociable, more and have more ability in the face of difficulty.

I think it is a good news. It can help us to develop our emotional intelligence more than IQ. Because, future is something unpredictable. Probably, we will face any different kind of trouble and of course, we need self confidence to survive against pressure. This confidence, should be trained by our experience of life.