Hello class, I am professor Adolfo Aburto.

It is my pleasure to welcome all of you to this reading

and writing 4 virtual course. I hope that you are as excited as I am to go through this complete

new learning experience. I am pretty sure that taking this new challenge will improve our

knowledge about reading and writing as well as the use of technology as a learning tool. Along

the course, we will be working on developing specific skills needed in the process of essay writing.

We will also learn some specific techniques to paraphrase, summarize, synthesize pieces of text

in an appropriate way.