SUMMARY

Title of the book : Four Powers of Communication: Skills for Effective Learning
Author : J. Michael Bennett
City : New York
Year : 1991
Publisher : McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Page : 122

This book tells about some important things that students should mastered when they are studying in the university or college. The book describes some bad habits that we usually do and gives some tips to become good students. On the first chapter there are some tips to become organized students. We can be organized students if we can learn the rules, learn to make decisions and manage our time. On the second chapter, we can find some tips to make us to become efficient and effective on reading. We can also get some tests of our reading speed. On the third chapter, we can find tests to measure our listening skills, some bad habits that we usually do, and some tips to improve our listening skills. On the fourth chapter the author gives us some important things to do when we write. There are some factors that can make our written form is the good one. There are also some tips to become a good speaker on chapter fifth. Then, you can also find some tips to make your learning and test are the successful ones.

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SUMARRY

Alcoholism

Rose Falkenhagen (1987)

In this article the writer tells about people who become alcohol addicted and the problems following. Alcohol is something that is familiar in American families both for the adults and the children. Alcoholism is a big problem that caused many of dangerous illness such as terrible gastritis, malnutrition and the damage of our cardiovascular system. It is also caused some mental problems to the people and even to the unborn children of the abuser. To be complicated the mater further, some social problems including the car accidents are also caused by the drunks in U.S. But we still have the time to reduce these problems and make it better. The education about the dangers of alcoholism and free counseling centers should be more published to the people, including the children. So, such problems can be handled earlier.

NOVEL SUMMARY

Title : The Hound of Baskervilles

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Year : 2003

Publisher : PT. Dian Rakyat

City : Jakarta

Page : 64

This book tells about the story of a famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. He has a good friend whose name is Doctor Watson. One day, there was a stranger come to their house. The man was asking for help about the case of someone death to the Sherlock Holmes. The death of Sir Charles Baskerville was very strange because some people think it was caused by a curse on the Baskerville family. The man who didn’t believe it at the first time became believe it but Sherlock Holmes didn’t believe it. He asked doctor Watson to accompany another strange man, Sir Henry Baskerville, who is Sir Charles’s nephew to the Baskerville Hall to check what was actually going on there. It was the place where the tragedy happened. Doctor Watson kept sending mails to Sherlock Homes about a lot of important things in Baskerville. It could help Sherlock Holmes to analyze the case when he wasn’t there. Some of strange things happened there and finally, he could find out that the death of Sir Henry was actually caused by Roger Baskerville or Mr. Stapleton. He is the unknown nephew of Sir Charles. He wanted money from the Baskerville. He frightened Sir Charles with the black dog. That was the reason why Sir Charles was dead by heart attack.