ENGL-1301Week 3! Summary, Paraphrase, and Direct Quotation

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Tips from Week 2Remember to Check the Blog for Slides, Assignments, and Links to Information: http://engl1301sprouse.wordpress.com/Textbook Tip: Page 11 of FYW – Rhetorical ReadingTextbook Tip 2: Table 2.1, pp. 18-20If you need some extra grammar review, check the Bedford St. Martin’s Handbook Sections 6 - 10.

The BA2https://raiderwriter.engl.ttu.edu/Examples in the FYW: pp. 566 – 574Selections to use from the essays:

Steele: pp. 452 – 453, paragraphs 5-10Dewey: pp. 466 – 467, paragraphs 40-45Emerson: pp. 470 – 471, paragraphs 9-10

Summary, Paraphrase, Quotation

FYW page 125, Table 6.2 – the Dos and Don’tsSummary: “Condens[ing] the original text’s ideas” into a few sentences or a paragraph (FYW 126)Paraphrase: “Restates in your own words the entirety of the original passage’s point” (FYW 126)Direct Quotation: “Inserts the words of someone else into your own text” (FYW 128)

Summary!Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home. - Written by Jon Reeves jreeves@imdb.com

After being forcibly transported far from home, a young girl kills the first person she encounters and joins up with three other desperate individuals. She will  kill again before achieving her goal of returning to her homeland. – Written by Dr. Susan Lang

Let’s Try it With Star Wars

Summary:

Star Wars (continued)Trailer: http://youtu.be/1g3_CFmnU7k2nd Trailer: http://youtu.be/5z1SziDPKQw?t=1m39s

Star Wars (continued-2)Part IV in George Lucas’ epic, Star Wars: A New Hope opens with a Rebel ship being boarded by the tyrannical Darth Vader. The plot then follows the life of a simple farm boy, Luke Skywalker, as he and his newly met allies (Han Solo, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, C-3PO, R2-D2) attempt to rescue a Rebel leader, Princess Leia, from the clutches of the Empire. The conclusion is culminated as the Rebels, including Skywalker and flying ace Wedge Antilles make an attack on the Empire’s most powerful and ominous weapon, the Death Star. – Written by P. Wong <pwong@nt.net>

ParaphraseLook at FYW page 127 – Guidelines for Effective ParaphraseParaphrase v. Plagiarism:

Original text: “The fact that French toys literally prefigure the world of adult functions obviously cannot but prepare the child to accept them all, by constituting for him, even before he can think about it, the alibi of a Nature which has at all times created soldiers, postmen and Vespas. (Barthes, “Toys” paragraph 3)

Good ParaphraseOriginal text: “The fact that French toys literally prefigure the world of adult functions obviously cannot but prepare the child to accept them all, by constituting for him, even before he can think about it, the alibi of a Nature which has at all times created soldiers, postmen and Vespas.” (Barthes, “Toys” paragraph 3)

Paraphrase: Barthes argues that a child does not have to think about the fact that French toys instruct him in the basic careers and objects of adulthood.

Bad ParaphraseOriginal text: “The fact that French toys literally prefigure the world of adult functions obviously cannot but prepare the child to accept them all, by constituting for him, even before he can think about it, the alibi of a Nature which has at all times created soldiers, postmen and Vespas. (Barthes, “Toys” paragraph 3)

Paraphrase: The fact that French toys literally establish a world of adult functions prepares a child to not have to think about the nature of careers like soldiers, nurses, and firemen.

Group WorkFrom “Toys” by Roland Barthes, come up with:

1 Summary2 Paraphrases

Individual Writing“In a liberal democracy, collective entitlements based upon race, gender, ethnicity, or some other group grievance are always undemocratic expedients. Integration, on the other hand, is the most difficult an inexpedient expansion of the democratic idea: for in opting for integration, a citizen denies his or her impulse to use our most arbitrary characteristics – race, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference – as the basis for identity, as a key to status, or for claims to entitlement. Integration is twentieth-century America’s elaboration of democracy. It eliminates such things a race and gender as oppressive barriers to freedom, as democrats of an earlier epoch eliminated religion and property. Our mistake has been to think of integration only as a utopian vision of perfect racial harmony. I think it is better to see integration as the inclusion of all citizens into the same sphere of rights, the same range of opportunities and possibilities that our Founding Fathers themselves enjoyed. Integration is not social engineering or group entitlements; it is a fundamental absence of arbitrary barriers to Freedom.” (Steele, “The New Sovereignty”, FYW p. 457)

Creating a TweetPartner up!Review the last twenty-four hours of your life and have your partner summarize the highlights in a ‘tweet’.

HomeworkBA2 (due 9/12/14)RW Reading 4 (due next class)Additional Reading and Assignment:

Review page 60 of FYW on Rhetorical PrécisWrite a Rhetorical Précis for “Toys” by Barthes