Name: Esteban Ramos Menco

Date: 5/11/2020
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Elaboración de resúmenes para la comprensión de textos en inglés

1. Reading for main ideas

Read the text Cloud Computing, available at SENA Library’s databases by following the link
below. To access the library, just login with your ID number.

Dziak, M. (2016). Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing

(ELL), 1.

http://search.ebscohost.com.bdigital.sena.edu.co/login.as
px?direct=true&db=elr&AN=114488477&site=ell-live
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Based on the previous reading, write the required information on the chart below.

Topic: Cloud Computing

Detail #1

Detail #2

Write here
the main Detail #3
idea

Detail #4
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2. Writing a summary
Now, use the information related to the main idea you already identified and the
supporting details you extracted from the passage, to write a summary of the text Cloud
Computing. Use the following template to guide your writing process. Remember that
supporting details can be used to make key points in your summary.

⇒ Bibliographic Information

Author(s) of article: Mark Dziak, Eric Griffith, Jamsa Kris.

Title of article: Dziak, Mark, Cloud Computing (ELL), 2016

Name of magazine, newspaper, website, etc. containing the article: Uso de cloud
computing

Date article was published and page number: January, 2016.

⇒ Summary Information

Briefly state the main idea or thesis presented in this article:

Publicize how and why the idea of creating cloud computing arose and also know how it
worked when it did not exist.

Summarize the most important information, ideas, facts, etc. presented in this article:

1. In the 1950s and 1960s, people searched for Network, or Connect, Computer
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2. In the 1970s and 1980s, networking was difficult. Sharing information between
computers was slow.
3. In the 1990s, many people started the Internet. The Internet was a fast and easy way to
network computers.
4. ASPs offer people a way to share or rent computer software.
5. In the 2000s, people used that idea to create cloud computing.
6. In 2008, cloud computing was becoming very popular.
7. Many people feel that cloud computing is ideal for businesses.

⇒ Summary
Write the final version of your summary here.

In the 1950s to 1980s people searched for networks which were difficult and sharing
information between computers used to be very slow as they did not have a decentralized
interconnection of computer networks, but in the 1990s to 2000s many people began to use
the internet which was very useful and this allowed them to connect computers to the
network easily and quickly. Furthermore, this led many companies to have the idea of
working with ASP which offered a way to share or rent computer programs so that people
did not have to buy certain programs and people used that idea to create cloud computing
and In 2008 it became very popular, Cloud computing can be used by Individuals or
companies. because it makes their work easier and Individual users often use cloud
computing to store information.

Cloud Computing. From: Dziak, Mark, Cloud Computing (ELL), 2016.