1. Paper 3 Summary and Strong Response
Chapter 6

2. Opinion spectrum for these questions
1. For teenagers, getting a tattoo is like following any other fad such as wearing the currently popular kind of shoe or hairstyle.
2. Teenagers who get tattoos are expressing deep psychological needs.
3. Because tattoos are so common today among young adults, they can no longer serve as a meaningful form of rebellion or self-definition.
4. With the growth of the tattoo removal industry, people, especially teens, no long3e regard tattoos as an irreversible marking of their skins.

3. Interacting with the text and reading Rhetorically
Reading for meaning and connection
Annotating, highlighting, using your background knowledge and having opinions.
Reading with the grain and reading against the grain.

4. Read and write
Read and annotate/highlight the article “On Teenagers and Tattoos” by Andres Martin, M.D and answer the Thinking Critically questions.
Pass out the article and allow 5 minutes to read and annotate…..Did you read with the grain or against the grain?

5. Understanding summary writing
Summaries are condensed versions of text that extract and present main ideas in a way that does justice to the author’s intentions.
You have to distinguish between main points and subordinate points and provide even coverage of the entire article.
You have to clearly convey and simplify main ideas that are often complex
Summary writing shows your understanding of the text.

6. The point of a summary…
If you are incorporating a summary of an article into your own writing, you will need to frame it so that readers can easily distinguish your own ideas from that of the author you are summarizing.
You do this in several ways:

7. How to distinguish your ideas from the ideas you are summarizing…
Put quotation marks around any of the writer’s original words
Cite the article with the appropriate documentation style
Use attribution tags “according to Martin,” or “Martin maintains.”
Introduce the summary with the appropriate contextual information

8. Annotated Sample of Tattoo article
Pass out Pg photocopy and have students highlight AND have students check off if it fits the criteria on pg 119

9. Nicholas Kristof New York Times
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10. Criteria for an Effective Summary
Represents the original article accurately and fairly.
Is direct and concise, using words economically.
Remains objective and neutral, not revealing the writer’s own bias
Gives the original article balanced and proportional coverage.
Uses the writer’s own words to express the original author’s ideas.
Distinguishes the summary writer’s ideas from the original author’s ideas by using attribution tags
Uses quotations sparingly, to present the original author’s key terms
Is a unified coherent piece of writing in its own right
Cites and documenting the text the writer is summarizing and any quotes used according to an appropriate documentation system.