Lesson Materials:
- Summary Worksheet
- Summary PPT
- Spain Article Annotations
- Spain Article Section Summaries
- Spain Article Entire Summary
- Article Summary vs. Executive Summary
Homework: Check the daily schedule.
Common Issues in Your Summary Draft:
- Missing introduction of the source & thesis of the article (Refer to
Summary Worksheet) - Missing coherence: A lot of your summaries are more like "a list of ideas" rather than a piece of writing. A summary should be a piece of writing with a coherent structure (with a beginning, middle, and end), well-connected sentences, and logical flow. In order to ensure that your summary has a coherent structure (i.e., your summary tells a "story"), you should...
- Have a clear "big-picture" (a thesis statement of the whole article) before looking at the details. Ask yourself - "what is the gist of the story?"
- Group paragraphs together based on their main ideas (they don't have to be located right next to each other in the article). See this example.
- Discover RELATIONSHIPS between these groups of ideas (develop super- or sub-categories)
- Put #1-3 together as a STORY
- Missing author-tagging and reporting verbs (Refer to Summary Worksheet)
