1、Summary WritingLead-inClassic rules for _:1.Bad news sells.2.If it bleeds,it leads.3.No news is good news,and good news is no news.Activity 1&2Whats the topic?Underline the topic sentence of each paragraph.Paragraph 1 Bad news sells.If it bleeds,it leads.No news is good news,and good news is no news
2、.Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers.But now that information is being spread and monitored(监控)in different ways,researchers are discovering new rules.By tracking peoples e-mails and online posts,scientists have found that good news can spread faster and far
3、ther than disasters and sob stories.Topic?Topic sentence?Is the first sentence the topic sentence?Paragraph 1 Bad news sells.If it bleeds,it leads.No news is good news,and good news is no news.Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers.But now that information is b
4、eing spread and monitored(监控)in different ways,researchers are discovering new rules.By tracking peoples e-mails and online posts,scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories.Topic?Topic sentence?Is the first sentence the topic sentence?Paragraph
5、1 Bad news sells.If it bleeds,it leads.No news is good news,and good news is no news.Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers.But now that information is being spread and monitored(监控)in different ways,researchers are discovering new rules.By tracking peoples e-m
6、ails and online posts,scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories.The new finding is that_spread faster and farther in_.(While mass media usually tend to share _news.)Predict:Whats going to be talked about in the following text?Paragraph 2 The if
7、 it bleeds rule works for mass media,says Jonah Berger,a scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.They want your eyeballs and dont care how youre feeling.But when you share a story with your friends,you care a lot more how they react.You dont want them to think of you as a Debbie Downer.Topic sente
8、nce?Paragraph 2 The if it bleeds rule works for mass media,says Jonah Berger,a scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.They want your eyeballs and dont care how youre feeling.But when you share a story with your friends,you care a lot more how they react.You dont want them to think of you as a Deb
9、bie Downer.Topic sentence is.Unlike mass media,you tend to share _()you dont want to be a/an_ friend.Pagagraph3 Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communicatione-mails,Web posts and reviews,face-to-face conversationsfound that it tended to be more positive than negative(消极的),but that didnt necessar
10、ily mean people preferred positive news.Was positive news shared more often simply because people experienced more good things than bad things?To test for that possibility,Dr.Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories:thousands of articles on The New York Times website.He an
11、d a Penn colleague analyzed the most e-mailed list for six months.One of his first findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list than non-science articles.He found that science amazed Times readers and made them want to share this positive feeling with othe
12、rs.Topic sentence is.?Pagagraph3 Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communicatione-mails,Web posts and reviews,face-to-face conversationsfound that it tended to be more positive than negative(消极的),but that didnt necessarily mean people preferred positive news.Was positive news shared more often sim
13、ply because people experienced more good things than bad things?To test for that possibility,Dr.Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories:thousands of articles on The New York Times website.He and a Penn colleague analyzed the most e-mailed list for six months.One of his fi
14、rst findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list than non-science articles.He found that science amazed Times readers and made them want to share this positive feeling with others.Topic sentence is.?Pagagraph3 Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communicat
15、ione-mails,Web posts and reviews,face-to-face conversationsfound that it tended to be more positive than negative(消极的),but that didnt necessarily mean people preferred positive news.Was positive news shared more often simply because people experienced more good things than bad things?To test for tha
16、t possibility,Dr.Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories:thousands of articles on The New York Times website.He and a Penn colleague analyzed the most e-mailed list for six months.One of his first findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to
17、make the list than non-science articles.He found that science amazed Times readers and made them want to share this positive feeling with others.Topic sentence is.?Tip:Sometimes one topic sentence doesnt conclude the main idea of a paragraph.Pagagraph3 Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communicati
18、one-mails,Web posts and reviews,face-to-face conversationsfound that it tended to be more positive than negative(消极的),but that didnt necessarily mean people preferred positive news.Was positive news shared more often simply because people experienced more good things than bad things?To test for that
19、 possibility,Dr.Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories:thousands of articles on The New York Times website.He and a Penn colleague analyzed the most e-mailed list for six months.One of his first findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to m
20、ake the list than non-science articles.He found that science amazed Times readers and made them want to share this positive feeling with others.Topic sentence is.People tend to share _articles()these articles_Paragraph 4 Readers also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny,or that inspi
21、red negative feelings like anger or anxiety,but not articles that left them merely sad.They needed to be aroused(激发)one way or the other,and they preferred good news to bad.The more positive an article,the more likely it was to be shared,as Dr.Berger explains in his new book,Contagious:Why Things Ca
22、tch On.Topic sentence is.?Paragraph 4 Readers also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny,or that inspired negative feelings like anger or anxiety,but not articles that left them merely sad.They needed to be aroused(激发)one way or the other,and they preferred good news to bad.The more p
23、ositive an article,the more likely it was to be shared,as Dr.Berger explains in his new book,Contagious:Why Things Catch On.Topic sentence is.?Is it a detail or a conclusion?People tend to share_articles.Activity3Figure out the structure structure of the text/summary.Topic sentences.1.By tracking pe
24、oples e-mails and online posts,scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories.2.But when you share a story with your friends,you care a lot more how they react.3.One of his first findings was that articles in the science section were much more likel
25、y to make the list than non-science articles.He found that science amazed Times readers and made them want to share this positive feeling with others.4.The more positive an article,the more likely it was to be shared,Finding?Activity3Figure out the structurestructure of the text/summary.Topic senten
26、ces.1.By tracking peoples e-mails and online posts,scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories.2.But when you share a story with your friends,you care a lot more how they react.3.One of his first findings was that articles in the science section
27、were much more likely to make the list than non-science articles.He found that science amazed Times readers and made them want to share this positive feeling with others.4.The more positive an article,the more likely it was to be shared,FindingReason 1Reason 2Conclusion1.By tracking peoples e-mails
28、and online posts,scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories.2.But when you share a story with your friends,you care a lot more how they react.3.One of his first findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the
29、list than non-science articles.He found that science amazed Times readers and made them want to share this positive feeling with others.4.The more positive an article,the more likely it was to be shared,contrast(对照对照)good news-bad newsclassic rules-new rulesmass media-people sharing newspositive-neg
30、ativeSimilar statements(in the text)of the findingspread-sharebe likely to-tend togood news-positive articlesReason 2ConclusionFindingReason 1Activity 4 Writing a summary1.By tracking peoples e-mails and online posts,scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters a
31、nd sob stories.2.But when you share a story with your friends,you care a lot more how they react.3.One of his first findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list than non-science articles.He found that science amazed Times readers and made them want to shar
32、e this positive feeling with others.4.The more positive an article,the more likely it was to be shared,Good news spread faster and further on the social networks.People who share good news care more about friendss feelings,compared with mass media.Science articles tend to be the most emailed for bei
33、ng amazing and positive.An article is more likely to be shared if it is positive.SummarySummary Good news spread faster and further on the social networks.For one thing,people who share good news care more about friendss feelings,compared with mass media.For another,science articles tend to be the most emailed for being amazing and positive.In conclusion,an article is more likely to be shared if it is positive.(56)