Overview: Summary Essay
Overview: Summary Essay
In this module, we'll begin right away with working on our first brief essay, the Summary Essay. It will allow us some practice with the fundamentals: accessing material from the library, accurately summarizing a source, accurately paraphrasing a source, and covering the basics of citation.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of this week, you should be able to:
- Create and share a completed Google Doc, using Google Drive, with editing enabled
- Use the discussion forum to make an original post and submit replies to other students
- Identify methods of persuasion that have worked on you, personally
- Select a topic for essay 1
- Identify the thesis of an assigned reading for summary purposes
FOR FURTHER PRACTICE
These resources are not (usually) mandatory, but will often prove valuable in helping you complete other assignments within the unit. Use them at your discretion.
- Purdue's Online Writing Lab: "Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing" Links to an external site.
- "Writing Summaries" Links to an external site. from Columbia University
Finally, just for fun, a humorous overview of what an argument is (and is not!):
Argument Clinic - Monty Python
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