1. Week 3 Outline of Important Information
English 1301

2. Quick update on e-mails
I decided to make some rules to better answer all of your questions in a timely manner:
I will only answer s from 10 am to 5pm.
I will take anywhere from 24 to 48 hours to respond unless you state that you have an emergency.
Put your section number somewhere in the .
Before you me, be sure to check the syllabus, our class WordPress site, or even Blackboard for more information regarding textbooks, assignments, or other things.

3.  Don’t be afraid to ask your peers 
One of the best things you will learn in college is how to work with your fellow classmates.
The connections you make with others will teach you valuable skills that can be applied to any field and career path.
EXCHANGE S OR PHONE NUMBERS WITH 3-5 OF YOUR CLASSMATES AROUND YOU.

4. English1301jb.wordpress.com Updates to Our Website
Check our WordPress site often and Blackboard too. I update the tabs on our site regularly with new information as time goes on.
English1301jb.wordpress.com

5. Textbooks Yes, you have to buy the textbooks to have access to them.
No, they are not for free on Blackboard or anywhere else.
YES, they are both electronic textbooks. There are no physical versions.
Texas Tech's English 1301/1302 Textbook ( , 11th Edition)
The St. Martin’s Handbook (TTU E‐Custom Edition)

6. Let’s Talk About Blackboard ()
Yes. I can see who has signed in and who has not.
Issues with Submitting BA 1.
Blackboard will only let you submit:
Do NOT submit anything with .pages extension. This will NOT work.
More information: blackboard/
PDF
Text
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader®
DOC, DOCX
Text
Microsoft® Word - word processor

7. Getting Ahead & More Blackboard Stuff
Do NOT send your essays to me via . You must ALWAYS submit them on Blackboard.
Can I get ahead in class and submit my assignments early?
No. Please do not do this. Blackboard is set up to only allow one submission. If you submit an essay early and realize you need to resubmit it, you will not be able to. Always turn in assignments during the week they are due.

8. Assignments Do not e-mail me any of your assignments.
Submit it to the appropriate place on Blackboard.

9. Rhetorical Analysis What you will do in a rhetorical analysis:
1.) Identify SPECIFIC audience.
2.) Identify TRUE purpose of writing or speech ..
3.) Analyze HOW rhetoric is used by the writer.
4.) Was the writer effective with his/her purpose?

10. Summarizing & Paraphrasing
What are they? What’s the difference?

11. Summarizing
Summary means providing your readers with a condensed version of an author’s key points from an entire article. A summary can be as short as one sentence or much longer, depending on the complexity of the text and the level of detail you wish to provide to your readers. (Put in your own words.)
You have two goals when writing a summary: (1) to prove that you understood what you read and (2) to help your reader understand the main points of the article.

12. Practice
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 items?
Questions or thoughts?

13. One-Sentence Summaries
A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire.
A thief, who steals corporate secrets through use of dream-sharing technology, is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO.
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.
After a devastating war against a combat-ready team of intelligent machines known as Omnics, the former agents of the heroic team must join forces once more to fight a new threat.

14. Summarizing Chapter 6, pgs. 129-133 (FYW)
Here is a checklist of things you should do when summarizing something:
Did you identify who/what you are summarizing? (Article name / Author name?)
Was I as concise as possible?
Did I talk about the main points of the article? Was I accurate about it?
Did I recap the main ideas of the text? I should not insert my own opinions or interpretations.
Note: Summaries must be written in your own words. You cannot use quotations in a summary.

15. Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing involves putting a passage (a paragraph, a few sentences, etc.) from source material in your own words. Paraphrased material is usually shorter than the original passage, taking a somewhat broader segment of the source and condensing it.

16. Paraphrasing
Whenever you paraphrase, remember that the paraphrase must be in your own words.
You must do more than merely substitute phrases and words: you must create your own sentence structures using your own words and phrases.
Think of paraphrase this way: you are explaining what a passage means to a human being who has never read that passage before.
DO NOT ADD YOUR OWN OPINION INTO A PARAPHRASE

17. Chapter 6, pgs (FYW)

18. Readings
Read:
First-Year Writing:  Chapter 2 pp ; Chapter 3 pp , 54-68
St. Martin's Handbook: Chapter 13c-d, "Paraphrases" and "Summaries“
Chapter 6 (pgs ) in your First-Year Writing textbook contains strategies for summary and paraphrase.

19. Assignment Information
Two Handouts on Blackboard that will break down BA2 for you:
Week3_BriefAssignment2_handout
Week3_ParaphraseParagraphs

20. 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.

21. Let’s Simplify It For BA2, summarize ONE of the following articles:
“Nothing is Missing” by Tom Munnecke
“Lost in Translation” by Lera Boroditsky
“The Internet: Is it Changing the Way We Think?” by John Naughton
I suggest choosing one article and sticking with it as we move throughout the semester. You can change articles right now if you want to.

22. Part One BA2 consists of two parts.
In Part One, you will write two summaries of your chosen article.
The first summary will be one sentence.
The next summary will be five sentences in length.
The handout on my WordPress site discusses strategies for writing both summaries.

23. Part Two
In Part Two, you will paraphrase a pre-selected passage from the article that you have summarized. My WordPress site provides a handout with the selected passages.
** Please Do Not paraphrase a paragraph of your own choosing and please Do Not paraphrase a paragraph from the article you did not summarize.
*** We will expect you to follow the instructions and strategies for BA2 closely. If you have any questions about how to complete this assignment, please do not hesitate to contact me.

24. BA2 Format Name of article/author that you are summarizing.
Label your one sentence summary.
Label your five sentence summary.
Label the original passage that you are paraphrasing.
Your paraphrase.
MLA citation of your article.
If you want an example, go to First Year Writing Textbook (pg 471)

25. BA2 is DUE on Friday, September 15 on Blackboard by 11:59:59 p.m.
Due Date
BA2 is DUE on Friday, September 15 on Blackboard by 11:59:59 p.m.