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Essay Assignment: Summary-and-Response
Timeline _____By no later than Midnight
Sunday, October 29, 2006: Post your completed
rough draft to your Writing Group—25 points _____By no later than Midnight
Thursday, November 2: Respond
to the posted essays of each member of your Writing Group by offering
constructive criticism and encouragement—25 points _____By no later than Midnight
Sunday, November 5: E-mail your completed essay to me for grading: jroth@scc.spokane.edu Value—up to 100 points Required Content: 1. An introductory paragraph that summarizes your
article. 2. A second paragraph that acts as a transition and
states your thesis sentence at its end.
(Please see the essay on pp. 417-419 for an excellent example of a
first and second paragraph.) 2. Three to four effective response paragraphs to the
article that blend words from the article and credit the article
correctly. (Please follow the examples
given in other assignments.) 3. An appropriate, elegant conclusion.
Paragraph
1—Summary Paragraph
2—Transition and thesis sentence Paragraph
3—Response #1 Paragraph
4—Response #2 Paragraph
5—Response #3 Paragraph
6—An elegant conclusion Steps to follow: 6
Perhaps print this page out and check off the steps as you
complete them. ___1. Review
again and again Steps to Writing Well—Reading
and Discussion #6: The Summary-and-Response Essay Structure. ___2.
Choose one of the following four essays to summarize and respond to: Let’s Really Reform our Schools—in our Course
Documents folder Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name—in this week’s Assignments
Folder Still Learning from My Mother, pp. 319-320 Don’t Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgments, pp. 347-350 ___3. Write a competent summary of the essay you chose,
carefully following the advice on pp. 171-172. This will be paragraph #1 of your essay. ___4. Write
a second paragraph that serves as a transition and states your thesis
sentence. An excellent example is paragraph #2 of the student essay on p.
417. ___5. Write
three response paragraphs, each incorporating words from the essay you chose
and then presenting your support, examples, position, opinion. ___6. Write multiple
drafts until you have something worth sharing with your reader. ___7. Post your rough
draft (in either Microsoft Word or as an .rtf file) to your Writing Group no
later than midnight Sunday, October 29. ___8. Read and respond to the posted essays of other members
of your Writing Group—be sure to keep responses constructive and helpful—by midnight Thursday, November 2. ___9. Incorporate into
another revision as many of your Writing Group’s comments as you think
appropriate and revise again. ___10. Review the Essay Grading Sheet to see how your
essay measures up and make necessary adjustments. Please remember that more
will be expected from this essay than from the one before it. ___11. Submit your final draft by the due date. ___12. E-mail your final draft to me as a Microsoft Word
attachment or as an .rtf file no later
than midnight Sunday, November 5. |
