1. The 3-minute summary Getting started First Year Series Writing Center
University of North Florida

2. Workshop Overview Thinking versus talking versus typing versus penning
Digital technologies limits and delimiting them (AKA you’re smarter than an iPhone and Word)
Summary opportunity
This slide presents the overview for today’s workshop.

3. Listening & Transcribing
How many words can you write per minute? How well does your memory work to capture the exactness of language or an idea? How well does Siri or Cortana or any digital recording device work to capture the same?

4. How a summary works Summaries are brief and encapsulating
What you include depends on scope
A paragraph fits less information/details than a page or two pages of summary
You can identify broad strokes
You can identify supporting information
You can quote
BUT you need to decide which information is the most relevant to your scope

5. From notes to draft Revision is key
Just as you wouldn’t submit a first draft for a grade, your dictated notes need your attention:
Check for errors in transcription
Check for importance

6. WorkshoP summary
Theory: you can talk almost as quickly as you can think
Digital technologies can capture your thinking more ably than typing/penning
Now: Guided practice through the summary of a filmic text:
George Lakoff, “Idea Framing, Metaphors, and Your Brain”:

7. Guided Practice Tell the “story” of the text you aim to summarize:
Start with a container sentence that identifies the text/author (rhetorical situation)
Ask yourself or peer what the text is “about”
Ask yourself or peer what the author(s) is doing in the text
Ask yourself or peer what steps the author(s) takes to get from start to finish
Ask yourself or peer what keywords or examples the author(s) uses

8. Artifact-Based Practice
Use your smartphone or pair up with someone else to have a conversation about the text of your choice (e.g., Wimsatt & Bearsdley’s “The Intentional Fallacy” or Gee’s “What is Discourse Analysis?”