As you condense each paragraph into a sentence, be sure to include in your sentence the main idea along with a key fact, example, or statistic (or two) that
you feel is crucial to the understanding of the paragraph.
TO ORGANIZE YOUR SUMMARY PAPER, CREATE A SENTENCE SUMMARY AS
FOLLOWS:
For each paragraph, brainstorm on a separate piece of paper for ways to report the author’s key information or core argument in a single sentence.
When you have decided upon the best sentence construction, write it below next to the number of its corresponding paragraph. If you need to add more numbers because your article has more paragraphs than this, attach another piece of paper and number the remaining sentence-paragraph summaries.
Be sure to avoid the pitfalls in the bulleted section on page 257 of SF Writer.
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Engages the reader with an interesting opening
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Identifies the source (author, title, etc.)
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Explains the topic of the source
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Conveys the main perspective or thesis of the source
SAMPLE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION:
Summary of “Jennifer and Rachel” by Lee M. Silver
How might our society change if individuals begin to clone themselves to produce children rather than conceive through sexual relations? This question conjures up images of Aldous Huxley’s
Brave New World, where hordes of identical children were “hatched” and raised in uniform batches to fulfill specific needs. According to Lee M. Silver author of “Jennifer and Rachel,” human cloning will happen, but it will not pose the danger to our humanity or our social structure that Huxley predicted.
Silver presents his own fictional account of cloning, but in his tale, a single woman named Jennifer clones herself to create a child that is entirely her own. He tells Jennifer’s story to illustrate why someone might choose to be cloned, and then, through commentary on the scenario, he explains why we should not fear these products of our own brave new world.
C. AFTER YOU HAVE CREATED YOUR SENTENCE OUTLINE AND INTRODUCTORY
PARAGRAPH, WRITE YOUR SUMMARY ESSAY, ADDING TRANSITIONS TO GUIDE
YOUR READER, A QUOTE OR TWO FROM THE AUTHOR (NO MORE THAN TWO
FOR THIS PAPER, AND ANY DETAILS THE AUTHOR HAS GIVEN THAT, IN YOUR
JUDGEMENT, WILL ASSIST THE READER’S COMPREHENSION OF THE SOURCE
ARTICLE.
D. MAKE TWO EXTRA COPIES OF YOUR COMPLETED ESSAY FOR PEER REVIEW
ON TUESDAY. BE SURE TO STAPLE THE SENTENCE OUTLINE BENEATH EACH
COPY.
*Please remember that your summary paper will be used as a foundation for your next paper, so the topic needs to be on an issue that faces our society in some way, either locally, nationally, or globally. You should ask yourself if the article you selected is on a topic about which people will have differing points of view.