NOTE TAKING, PARAPHRASING, AND SUMMARIZING (3) BUILDING SUPPORTING SKILLS CAMBRIDGE PREPARATION FOR THE TOEFL® IBT TEST

 

CAMBRIDGE PREPARATION FOR THE TOEFL® IBT TEST BUILDING SUPPORTING SKILLS NOTE TAKING, PARAPHRASING, AND SUMMARIZING (3)

 

EXERCISE NPS6 Taking abbreviated notes Read the excerpts from texts and lectures. Write abbreviated notes in the format of your choice.   1 Rube Goldberg earned his degree in engineering, but a love for drawing led him into the cartooning profession. Although Goldberg’s career in cartooning involved a variety of different creations, he is perhaps best known for the absurd inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts. ‘Typically, these inventions, sometimes referred to as ‘Rube Goldberg’s inventions,’ consisted outrageously complicated designs for machines that performed ridiculously simple tasks. Every year, a nationwide Rube Goldberg invention contest is sponsored by the engineering fraternity at Purdue University. University students are required to design and engineer an impractical machine to perform in less than 9 minutes a simple task using more than 20 processes. Past assignments have included designing a device that turns off an alarm clock and one that cleans and peels an apple.           2 3

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