College Writing 1 Summary and Response Essay Fall Semester 2018.docxmary772
College Writing 1 Summary and Response Essay Fall Semester 2018
Due Date TBD (Goal date: First Draft Thursday, October 12)
Purpose: Summarize a reading and respond to content
Preparation:
1. Read pages 1-3 and summarize, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” By Nicholas Carr on Blackboard
2. Prepare a “Reading the Text” graphic organizer
3. Practice group summary
4. Find a quote from the article to support your response. Cite it in APA format.
Writing Task:
Write a 3- page typed, double spaced summary and response essay. The student writer will...
1. Clearly state a thesis that shows whether they agree or disagree with Carr’s argument.
2. Produce an introduction, body (3-4), and conclusion
3. Produce a summary of the article
4. Practice integrating select quotations
5. Practice using a specific organizational pattern (block style or point by point style).
Your summary response will be graded on the following:
· Your ability to summarize the main ideas of a reading
· Your ability to formulate a thesis that shows your response
· Your ability to integrate a quote to support your thesis/response
· Your ability to use APA format to type your essay
· Your ability to find and incorporate a quote in your essay to support your thesis
· Your ability to cite the quote in APA format
· Your ability to articulate your ideas grammatically
Overview
A summary/response is a natural consequence of the reading and annotating process. In this type of essay, writers capture the controlling idea and the supporting details of a text and respond by agreeing or disagreeing and then explaining why.
The first step after active reading is writing a summary. Writing summaries is a common practice in college. They pull together the general conclusions and approaches of experts who have done research in a particular subject. Summaries should be written in your own words although you could include short quoted excerpts if you decide the author’s or speaker’s words summarize a point most precisely. Try to use pertinent quotations from the source, working them in gracefully where appropriate. Probably the best way to write a summary is ask yourself the following questions:
--What issues are described, explained or resolved in this work? --What is the controlling idea?
--What are the supporting details?
--What results or conclusions are made?
--What opinion does the author want readers to keep in mind about this topic? --What information does the author use to convince readers?
After you have written your summary, double-check to be sure that all facts you included are correct.
Summary Writing Guidelines
To move from an outline to a draft of a summary, follow these guidelines:
1. a) State the author’s name and the title of the text you’re summarizing in the first 1-2 sentences of the summary.
2. b) Express the author’s main idea in your own words in the first 1-2 sentences of the summary (no more than three words in a row from the text you’re summarizing.).
When you’re undertaking tertiary study there are often a lot of assignments and writing to do, which can be daunting at first. The most important thing to remember is to start - and start early. This presentation was made based on an article published on Open Polytechnic NZ.
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Unit 4: Essay
Due Sunday by 11:59pm Points 130 Submitting a file upload File Types doc, docx, and pdf
Submit Assignment
Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century: Re-designing Student Success
For essay #3, perform a significant revision to last unit's essay. Revise your work by doing the following:
• Include at least two additional outside perspectives on the future of higher education. (You will discover these outside perspectives by conducting
library research, and you will include them via quotation, paraphrase, and/or summary, which we will practice in this unit's discussion.)
• Argue for specific recommendations about how higher education could be re-designed for the students of the twenty-first century.
As you revise last unit's essays to meet these new goals, you may also expand, edit, restructure, and delete from your second essay, in order to make a
clear, effective argument about how to adjust college education for today's students. This unit's essay should not merely be last unit's with a few new
paragraphs tacked on, but should be a re-envisioned essay.
You might begin by designing a working thesis about how higher education needs to change. Then, begin researching what other writers have said
already about your ideas. Start with an search on your subject using the Park University McAfee Memorial Library’s Pirate Search feature
(http://www.park.edu/library/) , but also consider consulting Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com) . We will spend time this unit discussing and
analyzing sources together.
Think about what you would like to teach your readers about how higher education should change. Consider making precise, practical
recommendations. Be sure to provide explicit reasoning, and describe the implications of your ideas for today's college students of history. Make sure
that every paragraph of Essay #3 points your readers toward your particular focus and argument.
Some of you may find it possible to use some material from essay #2, and others will simply use essay #2 as a launching off point. Either way, I will be
looking for a revised thesis, enhanced supporting arguments, incorporation of new research, etc. Remember the difference between revision and
editing; this is a revision project, not an exercise in editing essay #2. In short, although you will use essay #2 as a basis, essay #3 should be a significant
re-envisioning, with a revised thesis and development. Essay #3 should have a new title to reflect this revised content.
Please craft a short description (this can be in bulleted list form if you would like) of the changes and transformations you made in revising essay #2 to
create essay #3. Submit this description as either a second file or as a new page (after Works Cited) at the end of your essay #3 file. Failure to submit
this required information will result in a letter grade deduction from essay #3.
Guidelines for Essay #3
Length/Due Date: approximately 1,000 wor ...
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Personal Essay RevisionDue Week 5 and worth 150 pointsIt tak.docxkarlhennesey
Personal Essay Revision
Due Week 5 and worth 150 points
It takes practice to become an effective written communicator. In this course, you will practice writing effectively for different purposes.
Identify a topic from the list below. Each topic identifies an issue that you will investigate over the 11-week term. Throughout this course, you will discuss why you chose the topic research and then propose a way to address the issue. You will write a draft and revision for two types of essays.
Point of View: Use First Person POV, i.e. “I,” for the personal essay. Use Third Person POV, i.e. “he/she/they,” for the stance essay. Do not use the Second Person POV, “you.”
Topic list: Choose ONE topic to write about throughout the course.
1. Treating Animals Humanely
2. Finding Child Care
3. Working Remotely
4. Monitoring Toddlers and Technology
5. Examining Reality TV
ENG 115
ASSIGNMENT 1: PERSONAL ESSAY REVISION
Due Week 5 and worth 150 points
Now that you have completed a first draft of this essay, it is time to carefully review the feedback your instructor has provided.
Then, make revisions and submit a final draft of your personal essay. What is a personal essay? It’s one of many types of formal
essays. All formal essays maintain the same basic structure: Introduction with a thesis statement, supporting paragraphs, and
conclusion. The personal essay is a narrative in which the author writes about an experience that was highly meaningful (usually a
lesson was learned). For this assignment, choose a topic and discuss three reasons why the topic is important to you. The topic
choices are presented in your WebText. To make this a personal essay, it’s important to include one or more stories from your life
that demonstrate why your selected topic is meaningful to you.
Important note: Personal Essays DO NOT incorporate any type of research from the WebText or outside sources. If you have written
a Personal Essay in a previous course, please reach out to your professor to see if you can re-use it. You are not permitted to use ANY
paper from an unrelated current or past course.
INSTRUCTIONS:
You are required to use your WebText to draft your essay in the templates!
Compose a two (2) page paper in which you do the following:
A. Structure Your Paper: Story, Introduction, Supporting/Body, Conclusion
1. Incorporate a story from your life into one or more of the following sections: introduction, supporting/body
paragraph(s), or conclusion.
a. Is your personal story relevant to your topic?
b. Is your personal story structured effectively, with a clear progression of events?
c. Is your language descriptive and precise?
d. Do you include an appropriate level of detail in your story – just enough to help the reader understand
your main points?
2. Write an introduction paragraph, which includes your thesis statement. It is suggested that this paragraph contain
5-7 sentences.
a. Does your introduction incl ...
College Writing 1 Summary and Response Essay Fall Semester 2018.docxmary772
College Writing 1 Summary and Response Essay Fall Semester 2018
Due Date TBD (Goal date: First Draft Thursday, October 12)
Purpose: Summarize a reading and respond to content
Preparation:
1. Read pages 1-3 and summarize, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” By Nicholas Carr on Blackboard
2. Prepare a “Reading the Text” graphic organizer
3. Practice group summary
4. Find a quote from the article to support your response. Cite it in APA format.
Writing Task:
Write a 3- page typed, double spaced summary and response essay. The student writer will...
1. Clearly state a thesis that shows whether they agree or disagree with Carr’s argument.
2. Produce an introduction, body (3-4), and conclusion
3. Produce a summary of the article
4. Practice integrating select quotations
5. Practice using a specific organizational pattern (block style or point by point style).
Your summary response will be graded on the following:
· Your ability to summarize the main ideas of a reading
· Your ability to formulate a thesis that shows your response
· Your ability to integrate a quote to support your thesis/response
· Your ability to use APA format to type your essay
· Your ability to find and incorporate a quote in your essay to support your thesis
· Your ability to cite the quote in APA format
· Your ability to articulate your ideas grammatically
Overview
A summary/response is a natural consequence of the reading and annotating process. In this type of essay, writers capture the controlling idea and the supporting details of a text and respond by agreeing or disagreeing and then explaining why.
The first step after active reading is writing a summary. Writing summaries is a common practice in college. They pull together the general conclusions and approaches of experts who have done research in a particular subject. Summaries should be written in your own words although you could include short quoted excerpts if you decide the author’s or speaker’s words summarize a point most precisely. Try to use pertinent quotations from the source, working them in gracefully where appropriate. Probably the best way to write a summary is ask yourself the following questions:
--What issues are described, explained or resolved in this work? --What is the controlling idea?
--What are the supporting details?
--What results or conclusions are made?
--What opinion does the author want readers to keep in mind about this topic? --What information does the author use to convince readers?
After you have written your summary, double-check to be sure that all facts you included are correct.
Summary Writing Guidelines
To move from an outline to a draft of a summary, follow these guidelines:
1. a) State the author’s name and the title of the text you’re summarizing in the first 1-2 sentences of the summary.
2. b) Express the author’s main idea in your own words in the first 1-2 sentences of the summary (no more than three words in a row from the text you’re summarizing.).
When you’re undertaking tertiary study there are often a lot of assignments and writing to do, which can be daunting at first. The most important thing to remember is to start - and start early. This presentation was made based on an article published on Open Polytechnic NZ.
Unit 4 Essay Due Sunday by 1159pm Points 130 Submitting .docxmarilucorr
Unit 4: Essay
Due Sunday by 11:59pm Points 130 Submitting a file upload File Types doc, docx, and pdf
Submit Assignment
Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century: Re-designing Student Success
For essay #3, perform a significant revision to last unit's essay. Revise your work by doing the following:
• Include at least two additional outside perspectives on the future of higher education. (You will discover these outside perspectives by conducting
library research, and you will include them via quotation, paraphrase, and/or summary, which we will practice in this unit's discussion.)
• Argue for specific recommendations about how higher education could be re-designed for the students of the twenty-first century.
As you revise last unit's essays to meet these new goals, you may also expand, edit, restructure, and delete from your second essay, in order to make a
clear, effective argument about how to adjust college education for today's students. This unit's essay should not merely be last unit's with a few new
paragraphs tacked on, but should be a re-envisioned essay.
You might begin by designing a working thesis about how higher education needs to change. Then, begin researching what other writers have said
already about your ideas. Start with an search on your subject using the Park University McAfee Memorial Library’s Pirate Search feature
(http://www.park.edu/library/) , but also consider consulting Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com) . We will spend time this unit discussing and
analyzing sources together.
Think about what you would like to teach your readers about how higher education should change. Consider making precise, practical
recommendations. Be sure to provide explicit reasoning, and describe the implications of your ideas for today's college students of history. Make sure
that every paragraph of Essay #3 points your readers toward your particular focus and argument.
Some of you may find it possible to use some material from essay #2, and others will simply use essay #2 as a launching off point. Either way, I will be
looking for a revised thesis, enhanced supporting arguments, incorporation of new research, etc. Remember the difference between revision and
editing; this is a revision project, not an exercise in editing essay #2. In short, although you will use essay #2 as a basis, essay #3 should be a significant
re-envisioning, with a revised thesis and development. Essay #3 should have a new title to reflect this revised content.
Please craft a short description (this can be in bulleted list form if you would like) of the changes and transformations you made in revising essay #2 to
create essay #3. Submit this description as either a second file or as a new page (after Works Cited) at the end of your essay #3 file. Failure to submit
this required information will result in a letter grade deduction from essay #3.
Guidelines for Essay #3
Length/Due Date: approximately 1,000 wor ...
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Personal Essay RevisionDue Week 5 and worth 150 pointsIt tak.docxkarlhennesey
Personal Essay Revision
Due Week 5 and worth 150 points
It takes practice to become an effective written communicator. In this course, you will practice writing effectively for different purposes.
Identify a topic from the list below. Each topic identifies an issue that you will investigate over the 11-week term. Throughout this course, you will discuss why you chose the topic research and then propose a way to address the issue. You will write a draft and revision for two types of essays.
Point of View: Use First Person POV, i.e. “I,” for the personal essay. Use Third Person POV, i.e. “he/she/they,” for the stance essay. Do not use the Second Person POV, “you.”
Topic list: Choose ONE topic to write about throughout the course.
1. Treating Animals Humanely
2. Finding Child Care
3. Working Remotely
4. Monitoring Toddlers and Technology
5. Examining Reality TV
ENG 115
ASSIGNMENT 1: PERSONAL ESSAY REVISION
Due Week 5 and worth 150 points
Now that you have completed a first draft of this essay, it is time to carefully review the feedback your instructor has provided.
Then, make revisions and submit a final draft of your personal essay. What is a personal essay? It’s one of many types of formal
essays. All formal essays maintain the same basic structure: Introduction with a thesis statement, supporting paragraphs, and
conclusion. The personal essay is a narrative in which the author writes about an experience that was highly meaningful (usually a
lesson was learned). For this assignment, choose a topic and discuss three reasons why the topic is important to you. The topic
choices are presented in your WebText. To make this a personal essay, it’s important to include one or more stories from your life
that demonstrate why your selected topic is meaningful to you.
Important note: Personal Essays DO NOT incorporate any type of research from the WebText or outside sources. If you have written
a Personal Essay in a previous course, please reach out to your professor to see if you can re-use it. You are not permitted to use ANY
paper from an unrelated current or past course.
INSTRUCTIONS:
You are required to use your WebText to draft your essay in the templates!
Compose a two (2) page paper in which you do the following:
A. Structure Your Paper: Story, Introduction, Supporting/Body, Conclusion
1. Incorporate a story from your life into one or more of the following sections: introduction, supporting/body
paragraph(s), or conclusion.
a. Is your personal story relevant to your topic?
b. Is your personal story structured effectively, with a clear progression of events?
c. Is your language descriptive and precise?
d. Do you include an appropriate level of detail in your story – just enough to help the reader understand
your main points?
2. Write an introduction paragraph, which includes your thesis statement. It is suggested that this paragraph contain
5-7 sentences.
a. Does your introduction incl ...
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1. Developing Skills for Work Based Learning
Week 5: Structure in writing
• The role and importance of structure in writing
• Structural features of academic writing
• Signposting
• Planning and checking your structure
2. In this session…
• What is structure in academic writing?
• Introduction, main body and conclusion.
• Signposting in writing.
• Planning your structure.
• Checking your structure.
3. Structure in academic writing
• Most written assessments, like essays, have a similar overall structure
made up of an introduction, a main body, and a conclusion.
• These features have different length and functions and are a way of
leading your reader through your writing.
• It is important that you consider each of these structural features in
your planning stages as well as build in checks before submitting your
assessment.
• You will also need to be sure that you link between these sections to
make your writing flow.
4. It is imperative that your assignment has a clear and solid structure.
Introduction
State the purpose of your assignment and main topic (one or two paragraphs/ 10%).
Main body
Discusses the main points of your argument from large to more detailed (several
linked paragraphs/ 80%).
Conclusion
Summarises the main points of your assignment (one or two paragraphs/ 10%).
As a work based learner, you may also be required to have recommendations.
Introduction, main body, conclusion.
5. Introduction = tell them what you are going to tell them.
Make a general statement that introduces the overall topic. Explain why the topic is
important. Explain what you are going to write about specifically (purpose of your text).
Briefly summarise the structure of the rest of the text.
Main body = tell them.
Break down the answer to your question in logical steps, i.e. use subheadings and
make your points supported by the literature you have research and read.
Conclusion = tell them what you told them.
Re-state the purpose, summarise your main points and your evaluation of them. DO
NOT introduce new ideas.
Introduction, main body, conclusion.
6. Introduction – example sentences starts
This essay will…
This essay seeks to investigate/evaluate/discuss…
The aim of this study is to…
This essay critically examines…
Main body – top tips
• Do not use the heading Main Body!
• Ensure you write in well developed paragraphs (more than one sentence, but not too long).
• Use signposting (outlined on next slide) and linking between content to develop your discussion.
Conclusion – re-state your focus
You could refer to terms or vocabulary that you state in your introduction. Make sure, in your conclusion, you
specifically answer the assessment question.
Introduction, main body, conclusion.
7. Headings and subheadings
Gives YOU a chance to organise your thought process/ content and the READER a clear indication of
what’s coming next.
Signposting
Use explicit statements to further reinforce what topics will be discussed (but don’t overdo it!).
Links
Make links between subtopics/ subheadings to show cohesiveness in your assignment.
Formatting
Make your marker’s life easy by using a consistent or uniform font and font size throughout. Consider
paragraph spacing when presenting your assignment in a clear and easily readable format.
Signposting
• There are other ways that you can provide structure in your writing:
8. Linking words:
To add more ideas: again, furthermore, in addition, moreover
To compare or contrast ideas: alternatively, contrastingly, conversely, whereas
To prove something: evidently, for this reason, because, inevitably
To show exceptions: however, nevertheless, yet, in spite of
To repeat or refer back to something: as has been mentioned/noted…/As previously discussed
To show that you will include something later: this will be discussed in detail later
To emphasise something: definitely, obviously, inevitably, undeniably
To give an example: for instance, in this case, in particular, notably
To show the order of things: previously, following this, initially, subsequently, finally
Adapted from Queen’s University Belfast’s Learning Development Service Guide on Signposting: http://www.qub.ie/directorates/sgc/learning/FileStore/Filetoupload,628191,en.pdf
Signposting
9. Planning your structure
• Structure is something that you should consider in the very initial
stages of your assignment.
• There are several ways to approach this. You could draw a mind map,
develop an outline, collate your notes or divide the overall word
count into sections.
• The important thing is to remember the function and purpose of the
introduction, main body and conclusion.
10. Planning your structure
Title/ question The purpose of your essay is to address the question, so make sure you keep focussed on it.
Introduction Explain the purpose and focus of your essay:
- Which issues will the essay explore?
- How will discussion examine each issue and in which order?
- Length is approx 10% of the essay.
Develop your argument or
line of reasoning
Paragraph 1
- Covers the first thing you said you’d address in your introduction.
- The first sentence introduces the main idea of the paragraph. Following sentences develop the topic.
- Leads to the next paragraph.
Paragraph 2 and other paragraphs
- The first sentence links to the previous paragraph, then introduces the main idea of the paragraph.
- Other sentences then develop the paragraph topic.
Conclusion The conclusion contains no new material.
- Summarises your argument and the main themes.
- States your general conclusions and shows why these are significant.
- In your last sentence, sum up your argument very briefly, linking it back to the title of the question.
- Length is approx 10% of the essay.
Reference list List all the resources you have used and referred to within the essay.
11. Checking your structure
• As you finalise your draft assignment, it is worth spending time to
make sure that your structure is logical, linked and makes sense.
• As part of your proofreading checks, check your assignment against
your original plan. Does it make sense? Does your discussion flow?
• Look for balance. Are some paragraphs/ sections long r than others?
Is there a reason for this?
• Check for consistency and accuracy in use fo headings and
subheadings to organise your content.