SummaryResponse Essay

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Summary-Response Essay

• Responding to Reading

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Reading Critically

• Not about finding fault with author
• Rather engaging author in a discussion by asking
  questions as you read an article or essay
• Requiring author to meet certain demands that
  employ good writing techniques

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Reader Demands

• Clear text
• Logical thoughts and arguments
• Reliable, credible information
• Thoughtful and thought provoking
• Honest writing
• Often objective, non biased or well supported
  argument

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Other reader demands

• Readers want to know about the author, his
  background, experience, expertise
• Occasion, purpose, audience of writing situation
• Cultural context
• Writers claim or argument
• Logical use of evidence, adequate evidence
• Style, voice, tone, word choice

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How to read critically

• Good note taking
• Keep a Readers log--see pg. 160

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Authors Name and title of Article

• Summary List main ideas, key features,
  examples, and evidence the author may provide

• Response
• Log your reaction to each main point, record your
  comments, and questions

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Or create a critical rereading guide p. 161

• Purpose
• Audience, reader
• Occasion, genre, context
• Thesis and main or supporting ideas
• Organization and evidence
• Language and style

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Purpose of this Essay

• To understand an authors main idea and purpose
  for work
• To recognize the main points that support that
  main idea
• To be able to summarize(paraphrase) authors main
  ideas
• To be able to respond or react to what the author
  has to say (to support or defend your point of
  view)

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Preparing the Summary p. 167

• Cite the author and the title of the text
• Indicate the main ideas of the text
• Paraphrase main ideas quote sparingly, use key
  words, phrases, and sentences
• Include author tags
• Avoid summarizing specific examples or data
• Be objective

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Response

• Your opinion of the authors ideas
• Do you agree or disagree
• How well is the essay or article written?

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Structuring Your response

• Requires your reaction to the text and your
  interpretation of the text
• 3 types of responses depends on purpose and
  audience

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1. Analyzing the effectiveness of the text

• Use this approach if you do no have an opinion on
  the topic
• Do an analysis of the structure of the writing,
  the clarity of the main idea, use of logic and
  reasoning, strength of argument, use of
  supporting evidence
• Overall effectiveness of the piece
• Good writing

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2. Agreeing or disagreeing with text

• A response of this nature will react to the ideas
  or the argument
• Simply do you agree with the author
• Why or why not
• Provide evidence to support your reaction

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3. Interpretation and Reflection

• Writer will explain or examine the text by
  looking at the underlying assumptions or
  implications of the authors ideas.
• You may add your own experience, attitude, and
  observations as they relate to text

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3 ways to provide evidence to support your
response

• Your response requires that you provide evidence
  to support your opinion, whether you agree or
  disagree with the author
• Consider what sort of evidence will best support
  your statements

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1. Personal Experience

• Use personal experience as examples to
  demonstrate why you interpret the text the way
  you do, why you react the way you do, why you
  agree or disagree
• I strongly disagree with Tannens first point
  based on my own high school experience,
  especially in my History class.

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2. Evidence from the text

• Cite specific phrases or sentences from the text
  to support your
• explanation of the text
• analysis of the effectiveness of the text
• To support why you agree or disagree

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3. Evidence from other texts

• Acceptable to bring in ideas and information from
  other texts
• Your prior knowledge
• No research required for this assignment
• Cite sources if you do use borrow material from
  other sources

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Include these elements in your essay

• Brief introduction that will state these items
• Title of the article or essayName of author
  Place of publication
• Any key information you might know about author
  to help establish authors credibility
• State authors main idea
• Thesis a well thought out statement stating your
  main point about the article or essay.

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Example (introductions are brief)

• In her essay The Way Men and Women Use Language
  author Deborah Tannen argues that teachers
  should be aware of the vast differences in how
  men an women communicate in order to be more
  successful in the classroom. Based on my
  experience in the classroom as, I have to
  disagree with Tannen.

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The Summary Discuss the Points that Tannen makes

• (Students will list)

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Respond to each point

• Points you agree with(Students will list)
• 1.
• 2.
• 3
• Points you disagree with
• 1
• 2

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Conclusion

• End essay with a summary of your response
• You can add a new perspective about the article,
  author, or topic

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Organization Outline Patterns Block

• Pattern 1
• I. Introduction with thesis
• II. Summary of main point
• III. Points You agree with
• IV. Points you disagree with
• Conclusion

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Pattern 2 Point by Point

• I. Introduction with thesis
• Summarize point 1 agree or disagree
• Summarize point 2 agree or disagree
• Summarized point 3 agree or disagree
• Conclusion
• Note you do not need to agree or disagree with
  all points

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Important things to remember

• Summarize or paraphrase brief explanation, omit
  authors supporting evidence or examples unless
  one is vital in understanding authors point
• Make sure to give reasons why you disagree
• Give examples, personal experience, facts, any
  previous experience or knowledge you can draw
  upon to support your opinion

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• Based on my experience with boys in class in high
  school. . . .
• Try to avoid over using I agree and I disagree

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Documenting the Summary Response

• Know what type of documentation system your
  teacher requires
• Add a correct bibliographical citation (MLA in
  this class)
• If you take direct quotations form the article,
  put the page number in () at the end of the
  quotation with a . at the close of the ().

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Keeping your work original Avoiding Plagiarism
p.204

• Document any borrowed material--any material not
  your original
• Words, images, language, visuals, ideas, concepts
• YES ideas can be plagiarized
• Students sharing ideas--one comes up with an idea
  and others say yeah, I like that idea too.

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Shaping the Summary p.205

• Summary should
• Present the authors main idea accurately and
  objectively
• Use description, paraphrase, and direct quotation

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Description

• Describe the main features of the essay
• Author and title
• Place of publication
• Key text features
• Authors thesis or main point

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Paraphrase

• Recreates or restates authors passage using your
  words
• Retains the original meaning without plagiarizing
• Same length as original text
• Read text until you write the passage in your own
  language
• Be sure to add an author tag and cite page in ()
  at end of borrowed material

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Direct Quotation

• Presents authors words exactly as stated in the
  text.
• Introduce with an author tag
• Enclose in quotation marks
• Cite page number () at end of quotation