Summary Chapter 1: Responding to Writing and Summarizing

1. Universidad del Turabo Decanato de Educacion General English Department Summary Chapter 1: Responding to Writing and Summarizing Prof. Jackeline Martinez Rodriguez

2. Responding to Writing

3. Responding to Writing

4. Three Characteristics of a Response

5. Techniques for thinking about a Response. • Practice Exercise: Read the three examples found on page 15-16. • Complete the NOW YOU TRY section of each exercise.

6. Response Format

7. Introducing your Response • In your introduction include: • The name of the author and the title of the article. • A paraphrase of the specific point from the article that you plan to discuss. You may also want to include a quote of the idea you are discussing.

8. Introducing your Response • Format 1: Including the Quote, Then paraphrasing it In (name of article), (name of author) writes (quote of a sentence(s) you plan to explain). In other words…(paraphrase of this idea). Example: In “The Case for Torture,” Michael Levin writes, “There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory.” In other words, he says that torturing people is sometimes acceptable and even necessary.

9. Introducing your Response • Format 2: Paraphrasing Only One interesting idea from (name of article) by (name of author) is (paraphrase of the idea you plan to discuss). Example: One interesting idea from“The Case for Torture,” Michael Levin is that torturing people is sometimes acceptable and even necessary.

10. Explaining Your Response to the Idea • Once you have identified the specific idea you plan to discuss and provided an explanation of what this means to you in your own words (a paraphrase), you can begin to discuss your reaction to this idea using one of the approaches suggested in Characteristics of a Response (PAGE 14). • PERSONAL EXPERIENCE • APPLICATION • AGREE/DISAGREE

11. Summarizing

13. Four Criteria for a Good Summary

14. One Sentence Summary • A one sentence summary includes only the author’s thesis, plus the name of the author, the year the article was written, and the title of the article. • Example: • In “Copying with Procrastination,” Moore, Baker, and Packer (1997) discuss the fundamental reasons why people put off doing things and how to overcome these issues (Moore, Baker, & Packer, 1997).

15. Full Summary • A full summary includes the author’s thesis, plus the name of the author, the year the article was written, the title of the article, the author’s thesis, and the main ideas that support it. • Example: • Look at the example of a full summary (page 22).

16. Two Techniques for Identifying Main Ideas for a Summary • One of the challenges of summarizing is that we must choose which information to include, keeping in mind the principles of being complete and objective. • You can choose one of the three techniques that follow to help you identify main ideas in an article.

17. Technique # 1: Underlining Key Ideas

18. Technique # 2: Dividing and Describing

19. Technique # 3: Summary Grid

20. Example of Summary Grid