Preface for Instructors | |
Introduction | |
Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation | |
What Is a Summary? | |
Can a Summary Be Objective? | |
Using the Summary | |
The Reading Process | |
How to Write Summaries | |
Demonstration: Summary | |
The Future of Love: Kiss Romance Goodbye, It's Time for the Real Thing | |
Read, Reread, Underline | |
Divide into Stages of Thought | |
Write a One- or Two-Sentence Summary of Each Stage of Thought | |
Write a Thesis: A One- or Two-Sentence Summary of the Entire Passage | |
Write the First Draft of the Summary | |
Summarizing a Narrative or Personal Essay | |
Arrival at Manzanar | |
Summarizing Figures and Tables | |
Paraphrase | |
Quotations | |
Choosing Quotations | |
Incorporating Quotations Into Your Sentences | |
Avoiding Plagiarism | |
Writing Assignment: Summary | |
Landscape in the Classic Hollywood Western | |
Critical Reading and Critique | |
Critical Reading | |
Question Category 1: What Is the Author's Purpose? Does He or She Succeed in This Purpose? | |
Writing to Inform | |
Writing to Persuade? | |
Too Much of a Good Thing, Greg Critser | |
Writing To Entertain | |
Question Category 2: To What Extent Do You Agree or Disagree With the Author? | |
Critique | |
How to Write Critiques | |
Demonstration: Critique | |
What Is the Author's Purpose in Writing? | |
Does He or She Succeed in This Purpose? | |
To What Extent Do You Agree or Disagree with the Author? | |
Evaluate Assumptions | |
Model Critique: A Critique of Greg Critser's "Too Much of a Good Thing? | |
Discussion | |
Writing Assignment: Critique | |
Driving Down the Highway, Mourning the Death of American Radio, Brent Staples | |
Writing as a Process | |
Writing as Thinking | |
Stages of the Writing Process | |
Stage 1: Understanding the Task | |
Papers in the Academic Disciplines | |
Stage 2: Gathering Data | |
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