WR115 INTRODUCTION TO WRITING



WR115

WE#2 Summary and Response Outlining and Drafting

1) SUMMARY – Rough Draft of Summary Due Monday, April 11th.

Directions: Choose one essay to work with from the selections (“What’s in a Name,” “Becoming a Writer,” or “Salvation”).

Step One: Work as a group (3 – 4 writers) to collaboratively develop a summary outline, moving from paragraph to paragraph building a summary sentence (or two) of each paragraph.

Paragraph #1:

Paragraph #2:

Paragraph #3: And so forth

Conclusion (summarize the conclusion of the source)

Step Two: Now that your group understands the supporting points of the essay, you’ll be able to synthesize these points into a topic sentence. Talk together about the best way to synthesize these points. Then collaboratively compose a clear and effective topic sentence that includes the author, the title, and the main idea of the essay.

Step Three: Further work at home: Review the summary outline that your group generated. Revise that outline, paying attention to ideas and sentence structure. And now that you have the outline and your topic sentence, draft the paragraph. Remember to organize your summary sentences in the order that the original essay organizes them.

RESPONSE

Directions: With your text (the essay that you’ve chosen to summarize and respond to) and the assignment guide in hand, review the prompt for the response paragraph.

• Step One (10 minutes): Brainstorm or Freewrite ideas that the prompt generates. Think about all the specific details related in any way to your topic and write them down.

• Step Two (10 minutes): Organize your ideas in a logical, coherent, and effective way by outlining.

• Step Three (10 minutes): Draft (rough!) your response paragraph.

Considerations for editing and revising: Your final/revised draft for your response paragraph should have the following characteristics:

• Topic Sentence should provide a smooth transition between the summary paragraph and your response paragraph. This will ensure that your reader understands when your writing moves from the summary of someone else’s ideas to your own ideas.

• Focus! All ideas/sentences should relate to your topic sentence in a focused way.

• Development: assignment guidelines specify 10 – 12 sentences.

• Coherence: sentences should logically and coherently link.

WR115 Summary and Response (1) Assignment Guideline

Rough draft due Wednesday, April 13th

Please write two well developed paragraphs, one summary and one response in response to one of the following essays: “Becoming a Writer,” “What’s in a Name,” or “Salvation.” Consider your audience to be someone who has not read the essay but is interested in these ideas.

Summary Paragraph: Write a well developed summary paragraph (10-12 sentences). Structure your summary paragraph in the following way:

1. Topic Sentence: Introduce by stating the title, the author, and the main idea in your own words. For example: In his essay “Superman and Me,” Sherman Alexie illustrates the importance of reading in all our lives.

2. State the main supporting points.

3. Show how the writer supports the main points. (Here you may want to use quotations from the text.)

4. For your conclusion, summarize the author’s conclusion. For example: The author concludes

with the idea that . . . or The author’s final point is . . . .

Response Paragraph: Write a well developed paragraph (10-12 sentences) in response to the essay you’ve summarized.

Structure your response paragraph in the following way:

1. Write a topic sentence that

• Provides a smooth transition between the summary paragraph and your response paragraph. This will ensure that your reader understands when your writing moves from the summary of someone else’s ideas to your own ideas in response.

• Provides focus for this paragraph.

Choose one of the following questions to focus your response paragraph.

✓ “What’s in a Name”: Write a paragraph about your name and the way it helps or fails to help you present yourself to the world. Develop your paragraph by narrating a short example of a time when it helped or hindered.

✓ “Becoming a Writer”: Write a paragraph about a time when you discovered an interest and an aptitude in some new activity, skill, or talent because you decided to do it “for yourself.”

✓ “Salvation”: Like the young Hughes, we sometimes find ourselves in

situations in which, for the sake of conformity, we do things we do not believe in. Consider one such experience you have had and write a focused paragraph about it.

2. Develop your response to the source essay in the body of your paragraph.

Remember your conclusion statement.

Final Draft of WE #2 and Summary /Response 1 due Friday, April 15th

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