Process Assignment 1: Summary

Mohammed Khayyat
Sept. 13, 2013
UMEI 003 RWG
Summary draft 1
Leave a blank line after the heading.
El-Khalil, May. "Making Peace is a Marathon." TEDGlobal 2013. http://on.ted.com/ElKhalil

In her 2013 TED Talk "Making Peace is a Marathon," May El-Khalil describes how she started the Beirut International Marathon. She said that “the running can change the world”, and she mean it. She was a Marathon runner. She was hit by a bus while her training. She had a lot of surgeries just to be able to walk again. She decide to be a supporter for the Marathon runners. Organizing a Marathon event is so difficult, but her dream was so big. Lebanon hadn’t a president for a year and they were in a civil war, but even though they had a Marathon. Now they are one of the biggest runner events in the Middle East. They achieve their goal and bring the Marathon to Beirut.
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Mohammed Khayyat
Sept. 16, 2013
UMEI 003 RWG
Summary draft 2

El-Khalil, May. "Making Peace is a Marathon." TEDGlobal 2013. http://on.ted.com/ElKhalil

In her 2013 TED Talk "Making Peace is a Marathon," May El-Khalil describes how she started the Beirut International Marathon. She said that “the running can change the world”, and she mean it. She was a Marathon runner. She was hit by a bus while her training. She had a lot of surgeries just to be able to walk again. She decide to be a supporter for the Marathon runners. Organizing a Marathon event is so difficult, but her dream was so big. Lebanon hadn’t a president for a year and they were in a civil war, but even though they had a Marathon. Now Lebanon is one of the biggest runner events in the Middle East. They achieve their goal and bring the Marathon to Beirut, and made the peace from the Marathon.[NL1] 
Editing suggestions for Draft 3
·         Don’t capitalize marathon unless it is part of the name of a particular race, e.g., the Boston Marathon.
·         Check all your verb tenses!
·         How do you make past tense verbs negative?
·         Word choice: even though (conjunction) ≠ even so (adverb)
·         Don’t use bold for the URL in the citation.





Mohammed Khayyat
Sept. 20, 2013
UMEI 003 RWG
Summary draft 3

El-Khalil, May. "Making Peace is a Marathon." TEDGlobal 2013. http://on.ted.com/ElKhalil

In her 2013 TED Talk "Making Peace is a Marathon," May El-Khalil describes how she started the Beirut International Marathon. She said that “the running can change the world”, and she meant it. She was a marathon runner. She was hit by a bus while her training. She had a lot of surgeries just to be able to walk again. She decided to be a supporter for the [NL2] marathon runners. Organizing a marathon event is so [NL3] difficult, but her dream was so big. Lebanon didn’t have a president for a year and they were in a civil war, but even so they had a marathon. Now Lebanon’s marathon is one of the biggest events in the Middle East. They achieve their goal and bring the marathon to Beirut, and made the peace from the marathon.
·         Don’t capitalize marathon unless it is part of the name of a particular race, e.g., the Boston Marathon. Corrected J
·         Check all your verb tenses! How about achieve and bring? Can you correct the tense choice here?
·         How do you make past tense verbs negative? J Main verb have (and also have to + verb) make negatives and questions the same as other verbs (i.e., not like be)
·         Word choice: even though (conjunction) ≠ even so (adverb) J
·         Don’t use bold for the URL in the citation. J





Mohammed Khayyat
Sept. 24, 2013
UMEI 003 RWG
Summary final

El-Khalil, May. "Making Peace is a Marathon." TEDGlobal 2013. http://on.ted.com/ElKhalil

In her 2013 TED Talk "Making Peace is a Marathon," May El-Khalil describes how she started the Beirut International Marathon. She said that “running can change the world”, and she meant it. She was a marathon runner until she was hit by a bus while training. She had a lot of surgeries just to be able to walk again. She decided to be a supporter of other marathon runners. Organizing a marathon event was extremely difficult, but her dream was very big. Lebanon didn’t have a president for a year and they were in a civil war, but even so, they had a marathon. Now Lebanon’s marathon is one of the biggest running events in the Middle East. She has achieved her goal and has brought the marathon to Beirut.
Final grade: 100%

Excellent! Good grammar control. Next, you can try to achieve smoother transitions between sentences through the use of transition adverbs and phrases.






 [NL1]This is a little too optimistic. The marathon is probably helping, but it is not by itself responsible for peace in Lebanon.


รจ   [NL2]Of [other]


 [NL3]Very OR extremely

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