FOR TODAY:

Reading Quizg QSummary & ParaphraseBA 2BA 2Critical Thinking RubricBA 3BA 3

ANNOUNCEMENTS:ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Extra Credit #1: Attend one session of the Gender & Gender Identity Colloquium on Oct 29th and do the required write-up. EC grade based on the quality of the write-up. Extra Credit #2: Attend one session of the “symposium on the Extra Credit #2: Attend one session of the symposium on the complicated relationships between Muslims, Christians and Jews in Medieval Spain” on Sept 10th and 11th and do the required write-up. EC grade based on the quality of the write-up.Choose ONLY 1 of the EC’s I will not give credit for bothChoose ONLY 1 of the EC s, I will not give credit for both.Details for both will be on the class blog under Extra Credit.E-mailing from Raider Writer.gProcrastination Workshop.

QUIZ QUESTIONS:QUIZ QUESTIONS:1) Define summary.2) Name two of the three reasons why summary is important.2) Name two of the three reasons why summary is important.3) List two of the six “Guidelines for paraphrases from 14f2 of the e-handbook (green

box).4) What is the main difference between summary and paraphrase?) y p p5) Name one of the three ways a paraphrase can “resemble the original either too little

or too much.”In the Onsite Policies:6) How many percentage points will be removed from your final grade for each absence

over 2?7) How many points are deducted from an assignment for every day that it is late?8) What is the name of the place where you can meet with a writing tutor? In my Supplemental Policies:9) How many tardies will result in an absence?10) What will I do if you are using an electronic device in class that I have not approved?

QUIZ ANSWERS:QUIZ ANSWERS:1) A brief restatement, in your own words, of the content of a passage.2) Summary is an excellent way to understand what you read. Summaries are useful to 2) Summary is an excellent way to understand what you read. Summaries are useful to

your readers. Summaries are required frequently in college-level writing.3) See e-handbook 14f24) “Writing a paraphrase is similar to writing a summary; It involves recasting a passage ) g p p g y g p g

into your own words …while a summary is a shortened version of the original, the paraphrase is approximately the same length as the original.”

5) Straying from the author’s ideas, using the author’s words, using the author’s t t tsentence structures.

6) 57) 108) U i i W i i C (E li h B ildi R 175)8) University Writing Center (English Building Room 175)9) 210) If you use these devices during class, or they ring during class, I will give you one

warning After that any use of electronic devices in the classroom will result in your warning. After that any use of electronic devices in the classroom will result in your ejection from the classroom and you will be marked absent. The same goes for any other electronic gadget.

SELF-REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS:SELF REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS:

Groups of 3Groups of 35 minutes to go over your self-reflective questions:questions:

What am I still confused about? Wh t did I fig t t f th fi t ti ?What did I figure out or try for the first time?

Answer questions for one anotherAt the end of 5 minutes you will all tell the class what you discussed.

WHAT IS SUMMARY:WHAT IS SUMMARY:

WHAT IS SUMMARY:WHAT IS SUMMARY:

“a brief restatement in your own words of the content yof a passage” Keeps the focus on the central idea.p

Mention the key points that support or explain the central idea.Include some examples.

“A good summary has three central qualities: brevity, g y q y,completeness, and objectivity.”

WHAT IS PARAPHRASE:WHAT IS PARAPHRASE:

WHAT IS PARAPHRASE:WHAT IS PARAPHRASE:

“A paraphrase accurately states all the relevant A paraphrase accurately states all the relevant information from a passage in your own words and sentence structures, without any additional and sentence structures, without any additional comments or elaborations”

A good paraphrase is a piece of original work that A good paraphrase is a piece of original work that puts that restates a given passage.

B f l t t l gi i t th Be careful not to plagiaries or to use the thesaurus too heavily. i.e.: His pulmonary organ

l l t dwas properly located.

SUMMARY & PARAPHRASE PRACTICE:SUMMARY & PARAPHRASE PRACTICE:

Groups of 3pSpend 10 minutes working on a summary of “The Principals of Newspeak,” by George Orwell.p p y g

Focus on figuring out Orwell’s thesis and the main points of each paragraph.

Spend 10 minutes working on a paraphrase of paragraph 16.We will have 5 minutes to discuss as a full groupYou will be handing in your group work, put all of your names at the top.

BA 2: SUMMARY & PARAPHRASEBA 2: SUMMARY & PARAPHRASEObjective: 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 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 350Crystal, 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. 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 d d bl T l hi i h f h b OR l d b i 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.

MacNeil, Robert. “Do you Speak American?”First-Year Writing: Writing in the Disciplines. Boston: Pearson Custom, 2010. 313-323. p. 316 paragraph 18.

YOU MUST USE AN MLA WORKS CITED AT THE END OF YOUR ASSIGNMENT, AND PROPER IN-TEXT CITATION. E-HANDBOOK CH 18.

BA 3: CRITICAL READINGBA 3: CRITICAL READING

Reading 3: McWhorter, “Reading and Writing Reading 3: McWhorter, Reading and Writing about Text” (available from E-Handbook site); E-Handbook Ch. 2c; Ch. 9; Textbook Ch. 4 Handbook Ch. 2c; Ch. 9; Textbook Ch. 4 Rhetorical Analysis p. 101-130 .

Heavy reading and BA 3 is the most challenging Heavy reading and BA 3 is the most challenging BA of the semester.

CRITICAL THINKING RUBRIC:CRITICAL THINKING RUBRIC:

You will find it on the Raider Writer home page.ou d t o t e a de te o e pageYour grades will be based on this rubricIn the grading you will be able to see where you fall In the grading you will be able to see where you fall on certain elements.Not every element appears in every assignmentNot every element appears in every assignment.The elements won’t make sense to you until they are applied to a specific piece of your work Most of the applied to a specific piece of your work. Most of the time the grading commentary should explain how a particular part of the assignment fits the criteria.p p g