Credit Crisis Summary

Credit Crisis Summary

For our English class with Henry, we had to write a Summary about the English credit crisis based on a video. The video was called The Credit Crisis Visualised and explained the credit crisis in a very simple manner.

With the construction of the summary I really had no difficulties since the video was easy to understand and we even got a piece of paper with questions which concerned the main points of the content of the video.

We even discussed the answers of the questions with Henry in class, so it posed no difficulty writing the summary. Without having these questions, however, I don’t know if I would have identified the key points.

One problem I faced was that the speaker in the video spoke in a low register. Because of this, I wrote my summary in a low register too, which was a mistake.  

In the office hour we had with Henry afterwards, he explained to me that I should use less spoken English when I am writing. To do that, I will read more newspapers like The Economist and The New Yorker in the future. I think that was a very good tip to make my texts more sophisticated.