Week 2/3 - Monday, 9/13/2010

Monday, 9/13/2010 - Class

• Review blog post/email sent this week

• Student emails (confirm) and discuss email policy (format and responsibility to check)

• Questions about Course policies?

• Questions about BA 1?

• Review Top Twenty

• Intro to Summary and Paraphrase

-          Why we’re learning this

-          Activity

• Assign BA 2:

Brief Assignment 2: Summary and Paraphrase

Reading 2: Textbook Ch. 1 Summary and Paraphrase p. 5-32; E-Handbook Ch. 1 & 2; 14 f(2) & (3); DiYanni, “Developing a College Vocabulary” (available from the E-Handbook website)

Objective: To demonstrate your ability to summarize and paraphrase portions of a text.

Purpose: Summarizing and paraphrasing are important skills for academic writers. For this assignment, you will write both a summary and a paraphrase of a text. Use the discussion about summaries in Ch. 1 of your textbook as well as the discussion of paraphrase in Ch. 1 and Chapter 14 of The St. Martin’s Handbook to assist you in doing so.

Description: Part One, Article Summary

The following three articles are located in Ch. 9 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 Ch. 1.

Articles to summarize:

-        MacNeil, Robert. “Do you Speak American?”First-Year Writing: Writing in the Disciplines. Boston: Pearson Custom, 2010. 313-323.

-        Bryson, Bill. “Good English and Bad.” First-Year Writing: Writing in the Disciplines. Boston: Pearson Custom, 2010. 330-338.

-        Crystal, David. “Why a Global Language?” First-Year Writing: Writing in the Disciplines. Boston: Pearson Custom, 2010. 350-359.

Description, Part Two, Paraphrase Assignment

After you’ve completed your summary, you will paraphrase a brief but complex passage from the same text. For the "paraphrase" part of the assignment, you will only need to paraphrase a passage of your chosen article. As opposed to paraphrasing the whole article, please choose any passage (one large paragraph), identify the page number and paragraph number of the original passage (i.e. p. 474, paragraph 1) above your paraphrase, and write a short paraphrase for that passage only.

However, your assignment should provide a summary of the entire article for the summary part of the assignment. Please let me know if this makes sense. I am making this change to make for a bit less work this week, as you do have a lot of reading.

In summation, your summary should summarize the entire text. Your paraphrase should paraphrase only one passage within the original article (again, make sure you indicate which one you're paraphrasing at the top).
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Homework:

• BA 2 (due Friday by 11:59 p.m.)

Read and print Helicopter Parents-  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37493795

• Read Chapter 2 in textbook (Critical Reading and Critique)