Summarizing

I apologize if you checked the blog earlier in the day and wondered what essay you had to write during class. That was an oops on my part -- I put the AP Lit blog on yours!

In Advanced Composition land, we added four more words of vocabulary and finished our discussion of college writing. Using the article, you produced your first summary, which we peer and teacher reviewed.

A successful summary encompasses seven items:
1. The original text is read twice -- or thoroughly annotated,
2. The author and title are in the first sentence,
3. The author is referred to multiple times in the paragraph.
4. There are no direct quotes are a plethora of specific examples.
5. There is no opinion -- be objective and stay in third person.
6. It is short -- usually one paragraph.
7. It ends with a concluding sentence that reaffirms the main idea and includes the author.

Make sure you read and annotate the Adjunct article for Monday's class. We will be using this in a similar fashion to the Sperber article. This article will help you see that there are many types of instructors in the college environment.