ENG 1A College of San Francisco Economic Implications in Learning Development Essay
Subject
Humanities
Course
Eng 1A
School
City College of San Francisco
Department
ENG
Question Description
This summary paper will be 5 pages with MLA format. This paper will reflect the skill development in close reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, MLA paper and citation format, and the summary skills of avoiding "I" statements and opinions or responses.Step 1: Preread 1 Yes, do a new preread. Look at the title, read the first and last paragraphs of the article in order to get an idea of what the main argument or claim is, and skim through the article and note the section headings. Note how long the article is; how long do you think it will take you to read it? What do you think of the vocabulary? Will you need to read with a good college dictionary next to you? Google and most on-line dictionaries are not adequate for college reading. A Longman ESL dictionary may not give you all of the information you may need, but if you need the Longman, by all means, use it as well. Annotate, (in pencil of possible – you might want to change your idea later) noting what you think of these arguments or claims, any questions you have, or any personal questions or thoughts. Step 2: Preread 2 Now go ahead and reread the rest of the article. Read the first and last sentence of each paragraph to get an idea of what the claims or major examples are. Again annotate in pencil, making notes of what you seem to find as major ideas, questions you have, or connections. Step 3: First read of the whole article ● Your first read should be fairly quick. You may want to alter some of your original annotations as you go. ● Circle words you think you may want to later lookup. Don't stop now to do this; continue moving forward for the big picture. We'll look more closely at another step. It's not a great idea to mark new vocabulary in pen or certainly in highlighter because your eye will stop there every time you look at the page, and you may end up feeling that word was not important to the meaning of the whole. Step 5: Initial Summary: ● See if you can put into one or two sentences what you think the main idea of your section is. If it is a long section, there may be several main points the author was making. ● For each paragraph, make sure you find its main idea or purpose. State this in your own words. ● If there is evidence, examples, a definition, or some other kind of supportive information, make sure to include one or two key pieces of evidence if the paragraph has a topic idea, or if it is all definition or evidence, summarize this. ● Double-check your idea(s) to make sure it sticks exactly to what’s said: no interpretation or comments of your own have been added. Do this by checking to see if your words match exactly the meaning of the words the author uses. You are writing a paraphrase, not an opinion or other kind of response. Step 6: Look Back Go back now to the title and main ideas you found in your prereading. Does the content of your summary seem to fit in with the whole? If not, might you want to revise an aspect of your paraphrase? Step 7: Putting the Summarized Section together To summarize the whole article, look over it and find what you think are the key claims or points. Which ones do you think are most crucial to the meaning of the article as a whole? Pay close attention to the thesis or major claim, which is usually in the first body paragraph, and if not clearly there, then most likely in the conclusion. For an article like Anyon's, which is divided into sections, each section should be summarized in one to three paragraphs, depending on how you'd like to structure your information. You may either write a section summary by stringing each paragraph's summary together like a chain of beads, or you may decide to break a section down into parts, such as student choices, access to supplies, or teaching style, and devote a shorter paragraph to each topic. You have your own creativity about how to organize the summary of each section. In your work, I've seen that you are mostly moving along paragraph by paragraph and then stringing your paragraph summaries together into one paragraph. That's quite adequate for the formal summary paper. I'm just letting you know that if you have time, you can make organizational choices. Step 8: Double Check your Understanding of Article‘s Purpose and Claims ● Do you feel more certain that you found Anyon's purpose for writing this article? ● You have already drafted what you thought was the thesis/claim.