Friday, 6 September 2013

Summary on "The Double Edge of Globalisation"

In “The Double Edge of Globalisation”, (Chanda, 2007), the main idea is on the global challenges that the world is currently facing due to globalization as well as the importance of political power to help tackle these issues.

Globalisation spurred trading among countries and this lead to an increase in fishing, destroying of the forests and pollution. One example is China. The use of chemicals and burning of coal to run the export machines which supply cheap goods around the world caused both air and water pollution.

Global warming is another issue of globalization. It can threaten to shrink the global economy by 20 percent and force migrants to leave their homes in an event of a flood.

However, the benefit of globalization can be seen through the advances in technology in an effort to connect people around the world. 

Therefore, the governments and the activists should work together to efficiently tackle these issues.


3 comments:

  1. Good day,

    This is summary compressed such a lengthy article efficiently. It is written in pretty fluent english as well. However, I have a couple of suggestions for you:

    1) 2nd Para: One example is China.
    If you change it to: In China, the use of chemical ...
    This will help your word count.

    2)Last line: "...to efficiently tackle these issues"
    I am suggesting to use the "efficiently" at the end to make it sound more fluent.

    "...work together to tackle these issues efficiently."

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  2. Hi Chelsea,

    I think your summary is concise and well written. It captures the main idea and is easy to understand.

    Here are a few suggestions for you:

    -You can use “An example” instead of "One example".
    (2nd paragraph, 2nd line)

    -You can use a comma after the word ‘machines.
    (2nd paragraph, 3rd line).

    Claire :)

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  3. Hi chelsea! I agree with Claire and Koon How! The article is well summarised.

    Adding on, here are some recommendations:

    first para -> the main idea.. ( you have two ideas here!)

    2nd para, last sentence-> ...around the world have caused...

    Bennie :D

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