Draft #1 Summary/Response

Let's check on the rhetorical situation here:

Genre: summary/response essay which is very similar to a book or movie review.

Audience: someone who has NOT read the original (so they would not need to). This is an artificial requirement; many of your readers WILL have read the article, but you are writing as though we had not.

Purpose: to provide a clear, unbiased account of the article, and then share your reaction to it.

Homework:

1. Reread your article and work on revising your draft. The second draft is due on Tuesday.

2. I'll be checking journals next week also. You'll need at least twenty vocabulary words plus assigned work (see past entries of this blog.)

Summary/Response

Draft #1 is due tomorrow. You MUST have both some summary and some response in this draft to get credit for it.

Go work on it now.

Homework:

1. Create Draft #1 of your Summary/Response.

2. One vocabulary word. You should have 20 words by the end of this week. I will be checking journals next week for midterm grades.

Summary/Response Examples

I hand out two examples of Summary/Response papers that meet this assignment.

You read the first one and label the places where this writer includes the items listed on the back of your assignment sheet for this paper.


Here are links to the articles that the two handouts refer to:

Barbara Ehrenreich's "Teach Diversity--with a Smile"

"'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey"

Homework:

1. Continue to read your article. In your journal create a page of notes that pin down the main point and present the organization of the article-- graphically, if you prefer. List the author's support or sources; decide which are key and which don't need to be mentioned.

2. One vocabulary word.