English 9: Moment of Truth

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Anglo-American Literature Icon:    Daniel Gerhard Brown  (June 22, 1964)               - Dan Brown, (born June 22, 1964, Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.), American author who wrote well-researched novels that centered on secret organizations and had intricate plots. He was best known for the Robert Langdon series, which notably included The Da Vinci Code (2003). -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   MAKING JUDGEMENT                 - The process of forming an opinion or evaluation by discerning and comparing careful judgment of the odds an opinion or estimate so formed is not worth doing in my...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   VALIDITY OF EVIDENCE    - Listening is one of the macro skills in English language. We listen to a lot of things every day, but not everything  we hear are true, correct and should be deemed trustworthy. Therefore, we need to learn to evaluate what we  hear and listen to and weigh its truthfulness and relevance. To be able to do that, we need the ability to judge  the validity of evidence listened to. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  EVIDENCE                -  is the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or a proposition is true or  valid. These may include data, facts, quotations, a...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Analytical Listening            - Analytical Listening is about the ability and the capacity to properly analyze what is being said. This not  only means understanding what the other person is saying and what they mean to say, but also being able to  divide difficult questions into separate parts to get to the core.            - Analytical listening is all about feeling and meaning. Sound gives us meaning and perspective in our  lives. For example, someone talking to you can say hello. On the surface it seems friendly, but the way they  say hello to you can convey a lot of different meanings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...