English 1301 Week 3 Ms. Lowery

Class Overview I need to hear from you in class Summary and Paraphrase Citation/ BA 2 BA 2 (Due Saturday in RaiderWriter)

Summary and Paraphrase Listen to your text Map out the Ideas What is summary? P. 56 FYC What is paraphrase? Chapter 12 f 2 E-Handbook

Why are they important? You will need to be able to condense other writers' ideas into your own words so that you can write research papers, analytical papers, argumentative papers, and other types of academic writing. It will help you prepare for the rhetorical analysis, where you will need to be able to succinctly state an author's purpose and discuss specific passages of an article. 

Quick Activity List EVERYTHING you did in the last 24 hours. Does this list seem tedious or simply not of interest to anyone else? What would you write if you had to tweet to your friends--with 140 characters maximum- -to summarize what you’ve done in your day?

MLA Citations Quoting the writer in your summary: Ex: In-text citations (16b E-Handbook) MLA Style: Parenthetical references should include the information your readers need to locate the full reference in the list of works cited at the end of the text. EX: (Diamond 226) Works Cited (16d E-Handbook, under “Note”) 10. Reprinted WORK IN AN ANTHOLOGY OR CHAPTER IN A BOOK WITH AN EDITOR List the author(s) of the selection or chapter; its title, in quotation marks; the title of the book, italicized; Ed. and the name(s) of the editor(s); publication information; and the selection’s page numbers Ex: Diamond, Jared. “The Ethnobiologist’s Dilemma.” Natural History, June 1989: 80-89. Rpt. First-Year Writing: Writing in the Disciplines. Ed. Susan Lang. Boston: Pearson Learning Solutions, 2012. 556-562. Print.

Strengths and weaknesses of student Summary and Paraphrase Page 563-4

Movie Trailers RoboCop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INmtQXUXez8H ow does this trailer summarize the movie? Main points? Shorter? Don’t have to present the ideas in the same order as the writer

Group Work As a group, compare your passages that you summarized and paraphrased. What main points are missing? Did you mention the audience? Author’s opinion? (Purpose)

BA 2 When should we use “I”? When should we avoid “I”? “You?” Why should we be careful with this pronoun? No Contractions I highly recommend that you do not use direct quotes for your summary on BA 2. No direct quotes for paraphrase

Description, Part One, Article Summary The following three articles are located in Ch.12 of your textbook. To complete your article summary, select one of the articles from the list below OR use a different article chosen by your classroom instructor. Your summary of an article should follow the summary writing guidelines discussed in Section 12f 3. Articles to summarize (all from First-Year Writing): Stephen Budiansky: “Lost in Translation” pp. 238-244, Scott Jaschik: “Winning Hearts and Minds on Plagiarism” pp. 261-266, Tina Rosenberg: “Everyone Speaks Text Message” pp. 267- 271

Paraphrase Decscription for BA 2 Description, Part Two, Paraphrase Assignment After you’ve completed your summary, you will paraphrase a brief but complex passage from the same text. Your goal in this assignment is to restate the ideas of the passage in your own words and do so in a way that is readable and understandable. To complete this assignment, choose a passage from the texts above OR one selected by your instructor that is part of the text you summarized and paraphrase that passage. Identify the page number and paragraph number of the original passage (i.e. p. 205, paragraph 1) above your paraphrase so that your instructor can easily see the changes you have made to express the ideas of the passage in your own words. Stephen Budiansky: pp. 243 par 23 (starts with "In other words") Scott Jaschik: p. 262, par 3 (starts with “After students turn in...") Tina Rosenberg: pp.270  par 15 (starts with "Digital technology has already transformed")

Assignment Details Summary: Purpose? Audience? Major Points? What? (About 5-7 sentences; 120-150 words) Paraphrases should be about the same length as the original, but the phrasing and language should be different. Do not just give a synonym of the word

What Graders are Looking For Issue Identification and Focus Author, text, and particular passage (if applicable) should be clearly identified at the beginning of both the summary and the paraphrase. Context and Assumptions Summary and paraphrase should show an awareness of the context in which the original piece was written. Sources and Evidence Writer's references to the source material should be both specific and accurate. Both this and the previous criteria should demonstrate the writer's understanding of the text being summarized and paraphrased.  Communication The tone overall should be professional, with attention paid to the organization of the assignment, grammar, mechanics, etc. The student should not be inserting opinions or offering judgment as to the content of the summarized or paraphrased text.  

BA 2 Due Saturday night Choose one text to summarize. This text will be the focus of your rhetorical analysis. Paraphrase one paragraph (these are specific on slide 13). Use correct MLA citation (textual citations and a Works Cited list entry!) Use paragraphs if you need to! Begin with one sentence summarizing the passage’s point that includes the author’s name and the title of the essay. For the opening sentence of your summary, essay titles “Should Appear Inside Quotation Marks with Every Major Word Capitalized.”

For Next week In-Class Assignment for Week 4 (Refer to Blog) In addition to the readings on RaiderWriter: Read The E-Handbook: Chapters 8 and especially 9