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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. ___7. For more help in how to borrow words and give proper
credit to them, please visit Working
with Words from a Source. |
