WEEK 3 AND BA2
Questions?
 Write
down a list of ALL of the activities that you
have done today. This list should include seemingly
insignificant activities such as waking up and
brushing your teeth.
 After
about 5 minutes, I will prompt you to switch lists
with someone around you. You will then summarize
the activities that your partner has completed
today. –Do not switch until I tell you! (2
sentences/140 characters)
FREEWRITING ACTIVITY
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Should consist of a brief overview of the main points of the article
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Make your summary as concise as possible
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Represent your source’s meaning accurately and fairly
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Do not include points not relevant to the main points of the article
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UTILIZE YOUR OUTLINES!!!!!
SUMMARY REVIEW
JEOPARDY!
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Steele
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Emerson
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Dewey
PURPOSE IDENTIFICATION
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You should be going through, word by word, sentence by sentence
and conducting a detailed simplification of the paragraph
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Simplify complex ideas by pulling them apart
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Recast sentences within a paragraph to create a genuine
paraphrase
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Do not merely change a few words
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Do not distort the original meaning or intention
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Avoid mirroring the sentence structure or organization of the original
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use synonyms for key or unfamiliar words in the original passage
PARAPHRASE REVIEW
PARAPHRASE ACTIVITY
 We
have labeled the table’s third column “Desired Response”
because we want to emphasize that a writer can only desire a certain
response from a reader; they cannot assume or force that response.
The reader is in charge because it is the reader who decides whether
to accede to the writer’s intentions or to resist them. Because writers
try to persuade an intended audience to adopt their perspective, they
select and arrange evidence, choose examples, include or omit
material, and select words and images to best support their
perspective. But the readers are the ones who decide-sometimes
unconsciously, sometimes deliberately-whether a presentation is
convincing.
“Chapter 2: Analyzing your Reading and Writing Context”. First-Year Writing, Writing in the Disciplines. 8 ed. Boston: Pearson, 17-20. Print.
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The following three articles are located in Ch.12 of your textbook. To
complete your article summary, select one of the articles from the list
below. Your summary of an article should follow the summary writing
guidelines discussed in Part 3, Section 12f. The purpose must be the first
sentence in your summary! Be sure to state the author/article title as well.
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Articles to summarize (all from First-Year Writing):
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“The New Sovereignty,” Shelby Steele 450;“My Pedagogic Creed,” John
Dewey 460;“The American Scholar,” Ralph Waldo Emerson 468
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You may use your outline to help you pick out the main ideas of this article
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Your summary should be between 150-200 words
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Your summary should begin with a sentence that identifies the author, title
and primary purpose of the text.
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There should be no direct quotes in your summary
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You must include a works cited for this assignment
BA2 - PART 1: SUMMARY
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You will paraphrase a brief but complex passage from the same text as your
summary. 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. Identify the page number and paragraph number of the
original passage ( page #, 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. There should be no direct quotes in
your paraphrase. You must choose from the paragraphs provided below.
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"The American Scholar" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The theory of books...“ (471, paragraph 12)
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"Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man...“ (474,
paragraph 21)
"My Pedagogic Creed" by John Dewey
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"I believe once more that history is of educative value in so far as it presents
phases of social life and growth. It must be controlled by..." (463, paragraph 27)
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"I believe that one of the greatest difficulties in the present teaching of science is
that the material is presented in purely objective form..." (464, paragraph 34)
“The New Sovereignty” by Shelby Steele
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"My father -- forty years a truck driver...“ (455, paragraph 16)
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“In our age of the New Sovereignty..." (456, paragraph 11)
BA2- PART 2: PARAPHRASE
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First-Year Writing Ch. 4 pp. 67-97
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St. Martin's Handbook: Chapter 7, "Reading Critically"
READING FOR NEXT WEEK
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Identify and write the purpose and audience of your article at
the top of your page
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Identify three rhetorical choices within your chosen article (one of
the three that we have been working with every week)
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Write the quote and page number and identify which rhetorical
choice this is an example of
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Identify how this rhetorical choice is persuading the audience
and why the author would choose to use it
BRING TO CLASS NEXT WEEK
A
rhetorical choice uses words in a certain way to
convey meaning or to persuade a reader.
A
rhetorical choice is a type of logos, ethos, or
pathos; ethos, logos and pathos are NOT TYPES of
rhetorical choices, they are what the rhetorical
choices does.
 *Go
over rhetorical choice list here.
RHETORICAL CHOICES