Steps to Writing Well--
Please
note: Our next essay will be a Summary-and-Response Essay. The following assignment will teach you the
structure you will need to master to be successful, so please study this
carefully and follow all steps in order.
___1. First,
please read and reread pp. 414-417 "Writing the Summary-and-Response
Essay" advice in our text Steps
to Writing Well.
___2. Next, please turn to pp. 171-172 of our text
and study "Writing a Summary." Look particularly closely at the
sample summary toward the bottom of p. 172 (just after Guideline #6).
___3. After this, please turn back to pp.
169-171 of our text and read the essay "Our Youth Should Serve"
by Steven Muller. This is the essay from which the sample
summary you just read was derived.
___4. Return again to the sample summary (toward the
bottom of p. 172) and compare it to the full essay you just read. Look
carefully at how the sample summary was derived from the essay itself.
___5. Finally, turn to pp. 417-419 and read the Sample Student
Essay "Youth Service: An Idea Whose Time Has Come." This is a
sample of a complete essay.
___6. Our next essay will follow this
Summary-and-Response essay structure with one addition. We
will blend some of the original essay's words into our essay and
give proper credit to those "borrowed" words.