-Move to assigned work groups and seating (this will be your group and seat in my class for the rest of the semester)
-Discuss new attendance policy
-Discuss email and Raider Writer issues
-Discuss proper use of "writing concern box" and University Writing Center in more detail
-Discuss assigned reading: St. Martin's Handbook "Developing a College Vocabulary" and "Reading and Writing about Text (Pages 37-72). Instructions: This reading is only available in the electronic version of the handbook. If you have a hardback version you need to find someone in the class to share with. After you log-in to your ebook, on the right side will be various tabs for different chapters. The last tab says "WID/Critical Reading Skills" - click on it. You need to read all of the tabs under section 2, "Developing a College Vocabuarly," and section 3, "Reading and Writing about Text" (Pages 37-72).
-Critical reading/summary assignment in work groups
-Quiz
Brief Assignment 2: Summary and Paraphrase
If you are still having trouble understanding the difference between summary and paraphrase, please read pages 114-118 in your textbook, First-Year Writing. It is located in chapter 6, "Incorporate Source Material into Your Writing."
Your instructions:
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. In addition, 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 both a summary and a paraphrase of a text. Use the discussion about summaries and paraphrases in Chapter 12 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. 11 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 St. Martin's Handbook Ch. 12 [Ch. 14 in 6th edition].
Articles to summarize:
- Christine Rosen: "Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism." First-Year Writing pp. 321-328
- David Crystal: "Texting." First-Year Writing pp. 333-338.
- Judith Keller: "Is PowerPoint the Devil?" First-Year Writing pp. 305-313
Description, Part Two, Paraphrase Assignment
After you’ve completed your summary, you will paraphrase a brief but complex passage from the same text. Your goal in this assignment is to restate the ideas of the passage in your own words and do so in a way that is readable and understandable. To complete this assignment, choose a passage from the texts above OR one selected by your instructor that is part of the text you summarized and paraphrase that passage. Identify the page number and paragraph number of the original passage (i.e. p. 474, paragraph 1) above your paraphrase so that your instructor can easily see the changes you have made to express the ideas of the passage in your own words.
Some things the graders are looking for:
Issue Identification and Focus
Author, text, and particular passage (if applicable) should be clearly identified at the beginning of both the summary and the paraphrase.
Context and Assumptions
Summary and paraphrase should show an awareness of the context in which the original piece was written.
Sources and Evidence
Writer's references to the source material should be both specific and accurate. Both this and the previous criteria should demonstrate the writer's understanding of the text being summarized and paraphrased.
Communication
The tone overall should be professional, with attention paid to the organization of the assignment, grammar, mechanics, etc. The student should not be inserting opinions or offering judgment as to the content of the summarized or paraphrased text.
