Summary and Paraphrase Week 2 Summary and Paraphrase

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Noteworthy pages from the readings Questions Rhetorical Readers Ask (Chapter 1, page 12) Do’s and Don’ts of Summaries and Paraphrases (Chapter 6, page 128) Guidelines for Effective Paraphrase (Chapter 6, page 130)

Summary Summarizing involves putting the main idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s). It is necessary to attribute summarized ideas to the original source. Summaries are significantly shorter than the original and take a broad overview of the source material. The difference between paraphrasing and summary comes down to the details-summary lacks the details of the original. You can summarize a passage or an entire work. Your version should be entirely in your own words (use different diction and sentence structure)

Summary Activity Spend five minutes writing down EVERYTHING you did in the last 24 hours—be as specific as possible. You can write complete sentences or phrases. NOW: TRADE YOUR NEIGHBOR Spend 5-10 minutes summarizing your neighbor’s activities for the day. Write a ONE SENTENCE SUMMARY and a FIVE SENTENCE SUMMARY. Let’s discuss the findings: Did your partner highlight the “correct” activities? How did you decide to include items? How did you decide to exclude item Questions or thoughts?

Summary guessing game When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. A beautiful girl takes refuge in the forest with a group of stranger men to hide from her mean mom. A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire. After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid father sets out on a journey to bring him home.

paraphrase Paraphrasing involves putting a passage from source material into your own words. A paraphrase must also be attributed to the original source. Paraphrased material is usually shorter than the original passage, taking a segment of the source and condensing it. Paraphrase when you use someone else’s content but not his or her specific words. Paraphrase when you want to simplify difficult material. Your version should be almost entirely in your own words (use different diction and sentence structure). Your version should accurately convey the content of the original passage.

Paraphrase example The original passage: Students frequently overuse direct quotation in taking notes, and as a result they overuse quotations in the final [research] paper. Probably only about 10% of your final manuscript should appear as directly quoted matter. Therefore, you should strive to limit the amount of exact transcribing of source materials while taking notes. Lester, James D. Writing Research Papers. 2nd ed. (1976): 46-47. An acceptable paraphrase: In research papers students often quote excessively, failing to keep quoted material down to a desirable level. Since the problem usually originates during note taking, it is essential to minimize the material recorded verbatim (Lester 46-47).

Paraphrase activity •“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” Preamble to the Declaration of Independence

Brief assignment 2: summary and paraphrase Objective: To demonstrate your ability to summarize and paraphrase portions of a text. Purpose: Summarizing and paraphrasing are important skills for academic writers. 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. the length of your summary will always be determined by your purpose for writing, as well as by your intended audience. In addition, for purposes of this course, summarizing and paraphrasing 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. For this assignment, you will write two summaries of a text and a paraphrase of a small portion of a text. Use the discussion about summaries and paraphrases in Part 3, Section 13c-d  of The St. Martin’s Handbook to assist you in doing so. Description, Part One, Article Summaries Your instructor will tell you which article from your First-Year Writing textbook you will use for your summaries. You will write two summaries of the assigned article. The first summary will be a single sentence in length. The next summary will be five sentences in length. Strategies for completing both will be discussed in class. Before turning in your summaries, please make sure you label them as either "One Sentence Summary" or "Five Sentence Summary." Description, Part Two, Paraphrase After you’ve completed your summaries, you will paraphrase a brief passage selected by your instructor. Your goal in this portion of the assignment is to restate the ideas of the passage in your own words and do so in a way that is readable and understandable. Label this final portion of the assignment as "Paraphrase." If your instructor gives you more than one passage to choose from, make sure you add the author's name and page number of the passage to your label.

Instructions simplified For BA2, summarize ONE of the following articles: “Do You Speak American?” by Robert MacNeil (pages 306-316) “Why Good English Is Good For You” by John Simon (pages 332-341) “Lost in America” by Douglas McGray (pages 351-359) Then, paraphrase of the following passages: If you summarized “Do You Speak American?” then paraphrase paragraph 34 on page 312. If you summarized “Why Good English Is Good For You” then paraphrase paragraph 4 on page 334. If you summarized “Lost in America” then paraphrase paragraph 32 on page 358. BA2 is DUE on Friday, September 11 on RaiderWriter by 11:59:59 p.m.

Format of ba2 Name of article/author that you are summarizing. Label your one sentence summary. Label your five sentence summary. Include the original passage that you are paraphrasing (label accordingly). Your paraphrase. MLA citation of your article.

Before you go… Please read the following to help you with BA2: Chapter 2, pages 17-37 (First-Year Writing) Chapter 3, pages 39-49 and pages 53-63 (First-Year Writing) Chapter 13c-d, pages 236-237 (St. Martin’s Handbook) Please read the following by September 14 (the next time we have class): Chapter 4, pages 69-99 (First-Year Writing) Chapter 7, pages 124-139 (St. Martin’s Handbook) Email me the audience/purpose and major points of the article you are summarizing by September 8 Turn in BA2 on RaiderWriter by September 11 by 11:59:59 p.m.