Summary and Response
CS1-100 in Fall 2016
Assignment:
1) Carefully Read the Newsela article, “U.S. wants to peek inside iPhone but Apple holding up the shield of privacy”
2) Using the techniques discussed in the writing textbook and in class, summarize this article. Your summary should include only critical ideas from the passage, not your own opinion or ideas. Here are things that I will be looking for as I grade the summary:
• Length: A summary is a shorter version of the original piece of writing. Your summary should be 1/3 the length of the original piece or less. For this assignment, that means one long paragraph of less than 300 words.
• Relevance: Select only the main ideas to put into the summary. Discard the minor points.
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Do not add to or subtract from the meaning of the original work.
• Objectivity: Your summary should represent, as closely as possible, the author’s opinions and purposes. Also, you must give credit to the original source both in the topic sentence throughout your summary. Be careful to clearly show that these words are not your own, and include a correct APA reference section at the end of the paper.
3) Write a response paragraph to this article. The purpose of this part of the assignment is to demonstrate that you have understood the article and thought critically about it. This is where you include your own opinions and respond to what the author wrote. This requires critical thinking and sophisticated English In this section, you can do the following things:
• Agree, disagree, or partially agree/disagree with one of the arguments or perspectives that was expressed in the
4. List any examples of bias or faulty reasoning that you found in this article.
illustrate when summarizing, the reader should restate the text’s main idea to show the relationship and understand what the text is saying. Jotting down brief notes about the reader’s initial reaction can help to prepare for a more detailed summary. Formulating strategy can be used to support what the reader went over in the text.
Summarize: Write a summary of the article that represents its argument and concerns as accurately as possible.
To be clear, the intent of this essay is not to argue for or against the content; instead, we are analyzing what the article does in terms of the following:
First, the essay is well constructed because Mae explains the issue and opposing positions clearly and in an engaging way. Mae includes quotes from articles and explains them thoroughly to show their relevance to the
1. READING OUTCOME: COMPREHENSION PROCESS WORK: Demonstrate your understanding of the novel by answering the following questions in your journal. Where possible support your ideas with references from the text. Include page numbers for future use.
Choose four important words used in the article, and indicate whether each word is neutral or emotionally charged. (Respond in point form.)
1 Summary: After listing the name of the book and author, summarize the book concisely in 500 “tight” words (no more than 2 pages). Prove that you comprehend the reading by writing a no-nonsense summary. The summary is not a commentary or listing of topics, but rather a heartfelt, condensed, insightful synopsis of the longer, more elaborate book. Cite the book in text at least once per paragraph, and include page numbers for direct quotations.
Your assignment is to read the book and answer a set of review questions. The questions will be impossible to answer without actually reading the book. The questions do not necessarily address the larger themes discussed in the book, but are intended to highlight interesting details, and simply force a closer reading of the book. I recommend that you keep the questions before you as you read. You will be asked to affirm that you have done your own work. After completing the reading and the questions, you will write an essay based on the book. The essay question is found at the end of the review questions.
This article is talking about how to avoid integrity and plagiarism. We should use our own work, and not use another person’s. If you plagiarism and get find out, you will get in to a big trouble and you will be facing lots of penalties. Also, there are some careless mistakes will lead you to identify as plagiarism. For example, you want to use other people’s work or quote to support your ideas, but you forget to site it. We need to be very careful by using other people’s work. And the article also mention when we are doing summarize, we should understand the source and only include author’s major points in to your summary. The action I will take is I will be more careful when using other people’s
Reading Strategy Note: Unlike summary and paraphrase, which require close reading, for this discussion use the reading strategy of
Summary: Summarize the important aspects of the reading section in a minimum of five sentences. Use main points only, avoid including your personal opinions, and use attributive tags:
3.Refer to the guidelines for writing an effective summary presented in the Module 2 lecture for use as a guide. Review the assignment rubric as well prior to beginning the assignment.
g. Explanation of the central points from the article(s): Avoid just using a quote from a source. Explain what you think the author means.
The purpose of this assignment is to help you develop the critical thinking skills necessary to write a basic, college-level analytical essay. You may type directly into this file and then upload when finished. Remember that you need to connect what you read in the book to what you are learning from other course materials to complete you answers.