Week 3
Ms. Lowery
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Quizzes from last week
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I need to hear from you in class
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Summary and Paraphrase
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Citation/ BA 2
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BA 2 (Due Friday/Saturday in RaiderWriter)
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Listen to your text
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Map out the Ideas
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What is summary?
◦ P. 56 FYC
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What is paraphrase?
◦ Chapter 12 f 2 E-Handbook
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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.
It 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.
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Quoting the writer in your summary:
◦ In-text citations (16b E-Handbook) MLA Style: Parenthetical
references should include the information your readers need to
locate the full reference in the list of works cited at the end of the
text.
 EX: (Diamond 226)
Works Cited (16d E-Handbook)
 10. WORK IN AN ANTHOLOGY OR CHAPTER IN A BOOK WITH AN
EDITOR
 List the author(s) of the selection or chapter; its title, in quotation
marks; the title of the book, italicized; Ed. and the name(s) of the
editor(s); publication information; and the selection’s page numbers
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 Ex:
Diamond, Jared. “The Ethnobiologist’s Dilemma.” First-Year
Writing: Writing in the Disciplines. Ed. John C. Bean et al. Boston:
Pearson Learning Solutions, 2012. 226-233. Print.
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Page 563-4
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,
or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We
are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate
a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here
gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—
we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power
to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what
we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us
the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which
they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for
us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that
from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause
for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here
highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this
nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that
government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth.
—Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
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Runner Runner
◦ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFPqyNvNzvU
◦ How does this trailer summarize the movie?
 Main points?
 Shorter?
 Don’t have to present the ideas in the same order as the
writer
◦ Think of a movie that you enjoy and come up with a
summary for it
◦ Think of your favorite scene from that same movie and
paraphrase what one of the characters is saying.
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Ethnobiologists are also interested in this expertise, but for another reason. They want
to know how different human cultures perceive and organize information. Nothing is
as fascinating as understanding how another human being thinks. It’s challenging
enough to understand someone who shares your language, culture, and much of your
life, like your spouse; it becomes infinitely more challenging when the person belongs
to a different society. Ethnobiology offers a well-defined approach to this problem,
because species possess an objective reality, and some of the same species occur in
areas occupied by different human cultures. Particular goals of ethnobiologists include
discovering what units people choose to name (species or other groupings?), whether
tribesmen group units hierarchically as we group species into genera and families, and
whether the answers to these questions vary among peoples.
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As a group, choose a passage from your text
to summarize and paraphrase
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When should we use “I”? When should we avoid
“I”?
“You?” Why should we be careful with this
pronoun?
No Contractions
I highly recommend that you do not use direct
quotes for your summary on BA 2. No direct
quotes for paraphrase
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The following four articles are located in Ch.12 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 Section 12f 3.
Articles to summarize (all from First-Year Writing):
◦ Sven Birkerts: “Into the Electronic Millennium” pp. 226233,
◦ Stephen Budiansky: “Lost in Translation” pp. 238-244,
◦ Scott Jaschik: “Winning Hearts and Minds on Plagiarism”
pp. 261-266,
◦ Tina Rosenberg: “Everyone Speaks Text Message” pp. 267271
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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. 205, 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.
◦ Sven Birkerts: pp. 227 par 3 (starts with "Transitions like the one")
◦ Stephen Budiansky: pp. 243 par 3 (starts with "In other words")
◦ Scott Jaschik: p. 262, first full paragraph (starts with “After students turn
in...")
◦ Tina Rosenberg: pp.270 par1 (starts with "Digital technology has
already transformed")
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Summary: Purpose? Audience? Major Points?
How? (About 4-5 sentences; 100-150 words)
Paraphrases should be about the same length
as the original, but the phrasing and
language should be different.
Do not give a synonym of the word
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Choose one text to summarize. This text will be the focus
of your rhetorical analysis. Paraphrase one paragraph
(these are specific on slide 13).
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Use correct MLA citation (textual citations and a Works
Cited list entry!)
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Use paragraphs!
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Begin with one sentence summarizing the passage’s point
that includes the author’s name and the title of the essay.
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Essay titles “Should Appear Inside Quotation Marks with
Every Major Word Capitalized.”
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In-Class Assignment for Week 4 (Refer to
Blog)
In addition to the readings on RaiderWriter:
Read The E-Handbook: Chapters 8 and
especially 9