Concept Map - The paragraph and paraphrasing

Composition

Types of texts

-          Argumentative and Propositional

-          The Topic I chose and the reasons I took into account

I will write an propositional text about Reading in Family: Benefits and Advantages

The Author

WHO IS SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE? 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. Doyle's family (Conan was

his middle name, and it was only later in life that he began to use it as his surname) sent

him to Jesuit boarding schools to be educated, and he later entered the University of

Edinburgh Medical School in 1881.

Shortly after, his father fell ill, and Doyle was forced to become the breadwinner for the

family. He worked for a time as a ship's doctor, then opened his own medical practice near

Portsmouth. In his spare time he did more writing.

In 1885 Conan Doyle married Louise Hawkins, and had two children with her, before she

died after a protracted illness in 1900. In 1907 he remarried, to Jeanne Leckie, and had

three more children with her.

His third attempt at a novel was A Study in Scarlet, the story which introduced Sherlock

Holmes to the world. Study was published in Mrs. Beeton's Christmas annual, in 1887.

Encouraged by publishers to keep writing, Conan Doyle wrote his second Holmesmystery,

The Sign of the Four, in 1890.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on July 7, 1930, and is buried in the churchyard at Minstead
Hampshire. He can rightly be credited with helping create the literary genre of the
detective story. Though Edgar Allen Poe's Dupin predates Sherlock Holmes, it was the
Holmes' stories that solidified in the public mind what a good detective should be.

Source: http://www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/doyle.htm 

HIS WORKS

Sherlock Holmes novels:

1887          -           A Study in Scarlet

1890          -           The Sign of Four

1902          -           The Hound of the Baskervilles

1915          -           The Valley of Fear

Sherlock Holmes short story collections:

1892          -           The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

1894          -           The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

1905          -           The Return of Sherlock Holmes

1917          -           His Last Bow

1927          -           The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

1928          -           The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Professor Challenger Stories:

1912          -           The Lost World

1913          -           The Poison Belt

1926          -           The Land of Mist

1927          -           The Disintegration Machine

1928          -           When The World Screamed

1952          -           The Professor Challenger Stories

Plays

1893          -           Jane Annie or the Good Conduct prize (with J.M. Barrie)

1895          -           A Question of Diplomacy

1899          -           Brothers

1903          -           A Duet. A Duologue

1907          -           The Story of Waterloo

1909          -           The Fires of Fate

1910          -           Brigadier Gerard

And others

Fiction:

1879          -           The Mistery of Sasassa Valley

1885          -           The Surgeon of Gaster Fell

1889          -           Micah Clarke, his statement as made to his three grandchildren

1889          -           The Mystery of Cloomber

1889          -           Mysteries and Adventures

1890          -           The Captain of the Polestar and other tales

1890          -           The Firm of Girdlestone: A Romance of the Unromantic

1891          -           The White Company

And others

Source: http://www.sherlockholmesonline.org/bibliography/bibliography1.htm

COMMENTS ABOUT THE TEXT I CHOSE

"The Adventure of the Empty House", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written

by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The

Return of Sherlock Holmes. Public pressure forced Conan Doyle to bring the sleuth back

to life, and explain his apparently miraculous survival of a deadly struggle with Professor

Moriarty. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Empty House" sixth in his list of his twelve

favorite Holmes stories.

Synopsis

The empty house across from Baker St flat has a clear view of a wax Holmes, which is bait

for Colonel Sebastian Moran, a surviving lieutenant of the villain Moriarty. In April 1894,

Watson (now a widower) checks 427 Park Lane where a young gambler, the Honorable

Ronald Adair, was shot in a closed room on the 30th of March. He bumps into a wizened

old book collector, who follows him home to his Kensington practice study then drops his

disguise - it is Holmes.

Holmes apologizes for the deception needed to outwit and wait out other enemies, and

describes his three years' exploits. He needed funds, so he confided in Mycroft, who

preserved his rooms. After a roundabout route, they wait two hours until around midnight

in the abandoned Camden House, when Moran shoots a specialized air-gun, fooled by

Mrs Hudson moving the effigy from below to simulate life. Watson knocks down the villain,

while Holmes whistles for Lestrade and the police.

Back at Baker Street, Holmes explains. Adair threatened to expose card-partner Moran

whom he found cheating, and had locked himself in to count out the spoils he wanted to

return.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Empty_House

Introduction

BRIEF PERSONAL INTRODUCTION AND LEARNING EXPECTATIONS

Hello, my full name is Yuly Marcela Upegui Torres (I don´t like Yuly, so you can call me just Marcela). I was born in Medellín 25 years ago, a november 15. 

At present, I´m living in Laureles with a friend and with my kitten Scherezada and working at the Culture department of Comfenalco. About my academic life, let me tell you a little summary:

Once I finished the secondary school, I studied filmmaking. Being there I knew photography and felt in love with it. I made 4 levels of analogous photography and then 2 semesters of video edition and digital photography at CESDE Institute, there I won a scholarship to study fashion photography in another Academy.

Working as a photographer in a Centro Colombo Americano´s event, I heard about the Work-study program it has. I made sixteen English levels and worked at the video library for paying the courses, this was the last thing I studied before starting the degree in English and Spanish at UPB, and now, I´m in the fourth semester.

My learning expectation are very clear, I want to finish my degree and then continue working in culture projects and combine them with educational process. Also, I want to do a master in teaching Spanish for foreigners, but always using art expressions for it.

MY CONCEPTION ABOUT READING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE

For me, nothing is better than reading a story in a foreign language, specifically in English. I remember that the first tale I read in this language was The Black Cat, written by Edgar Allan Poe. The moment I started reading it I felt in love with English. It was difficult because I had to read it many times for understanding it, but every time was better because every time I learned new words. Also I think that one of the magic things of reading in a foreign language is that you know better the author, because in the translation you are knowing the translator. But the better thing is that while you read, you know better the culture to that language belongs.