English Homework
activity 1 and activity 1 part 2 has a passage to read and a questions to be answer.
activity 2 and activity 2 part 2 also has a passage to read and a questions to be answer.
activity 3 has an acticles to read and ansewer questions 1 and 2
question 1 acticles is brownfield 08 excerpt which is uploaded below
Activity 3: Summarizing
Summaries are used for longer passages; they provide a concise, holistic overview of the source's meaning, using new and unique phrasing. The purpose of summaries is to provide basic context of a source, but not to go into explicit detail.
Answer the following questions by typing your responses in the textboxes provided. . Given the original text, summarize the source in four paragraphs or less.
New York State. Office of the Comptroller. Office of Budget and Policy Analysis. "Overview of the New York State Brownfields Cleanup Program." Office of the State Comptroller. Office of the State Comptroller, 2008. Web. 7 July 2012.
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2. Given the original text, summarize the source in four paragraphs or less. Don't forget that with summaries, you want to place at least one in-text citation at the end of each paragraph. However, when a source does not have page numbers, as with the following article from The New York Times, you won't be able to include an in-text citation. Therefore, be sure to make it clear that you are referencing the author's ideas throughout your summary.
Kirkpatrick, David D. "Saudis Expand Regional Power as Others Falter." New York Times. New York Times, 25 January 2015. Web. 25 January 2015.