1. If you had to describe the article to someone else, how would you describe it? What is it about?
What was something specific you learned from the article that you didn’t know before?
What is something specific you read in the article that you already knew?
What is the difference between a “group” and a “community”?
Based on the definition Smith provides us, what is an example of a community you belong to?
Discussion Questions

2. AGENDA ANNOUNCEMENTS Attendance Announcements Discuss “Community”
Attendance
Announcements
Discuss “Community”
Summary
ANNOUNCEMENTS
We won’t be meeting for class on Monday!
(you will be completing the lesson and activity online)
SCHEDULE YOUR CONFERENCE!

3. Keep working on your reverse outline
For Monday
Read pg ; ; 67-69
Keep working on your reverse outline
Complete the “Reading Scholarly Sources” lesson online posted to the homepage of the course website
For Wednesday
Read pg ;
U1WD1

4. U1WD1 = Working Draft 1
Working Draft 1 is an initial draft that displays the progress you’ve made so far on the project. It should show you have not only started but have made significant progress, though that progress may be displayed in the form of a lengthy free-write, extensive notes, a complete outline, or an unfinished draft of your essay. To receive credit, you need to submit a minimum of 1 full page of writing.
Submission: Upload to the designated dropbox in Blackboard by 9:00am on Wednesday, January 24th

5. If you had to describe the article to someone else, how would you describe it? What is it about?
What was something specific you learned from the article that you didn’t know before?
What is something specific you read in the article that you already knew?
What is the difference between a “group” and a “community”?
Based on the definition Smith provides us, what is an example of a community you belong to?
Discussion Questions

6. SUMMARY
“Summarizing is a skill worth developing because it requires you to master the material you’re reading and make it your own.”
To write a good summary, you have to distinguish between the essential points and the support or extra information in the original.
Summaries do NOT include specific details, anecdotes, digressions, or elaborations.

7. CHARACTERISTICS OF A SUMMARY
1. The summary covers the original as a whole.
2. The summary is unbiased.
3. The summary is a condensed version of the original written in your own words.

8. PREPARING TO WRITE A SUMMARY
To write a good summary it is important to thoroughly understand the material you are working with.
PREPARING TO WRITE A SUMMARY
Adapted from: Swales, John M. and Christine B. Feat. Academic Writing for Graduate Students, Essential Tasks and Skills. Ann Arbor: U Michigan Press,

9. Preview the text and consider the rhetorical situation
Record the bibliographic information of the source (author--first/last name, title, date of publication, volume number, place of publication, publisher, URL, etc.) 1

10. Read, mark, and annotate the text
Identify the main idea of the original
Highlight or underline topic sentences and key passages 2

11. Note supporting points or evidence
Reverse outline
Describe the purpose or major point of each paragraph in your own words
Note supporting points or evidence 3

12. Read the text again, comparing your outline to the original, making any necessary changes
Make sure you have used your own words
Eliminate any non-essential information and details

13. WRITING A SUMMARY Use your own words!
Include a thesis statement identifying the author, title, and main idea of the original
Follow the outline of the original – start by identifying how the original starts and conclude by identifying how the original concludes

14. “The author/article ____________”
Utilize signal phrases to guide your readers and to identify how the major points relate to the main idea and each other
“The author/article ____________”
states
reveals
remarks
recommends
reports
claims
repeats
refutes
explains
confirms
argues
criticizes
discusses
mentions
contends
disagrees
illustrates
observes
suggests
concludes

16. PREPARING TO WRITE A SUMMARY
STEP ONE: Preview the text and consider the rhetorical situation
STEP TWO: Read, mark, and annotate the text
STEP THREE: Reverse outline

18. Reverse Outline Identify the purpose AND major point of the paragraph
What is the function of the paragraph?
Why is it there? What does it do?
What does it say?

19. Purpose: To provide context and history on the definition of community1
Major point: There have been and are many different definitions of "community”

20. Working with your partner
Reverse Outline
Working with your partner
Identify the purpose AND major point of the paragraph
What is the function of the paragraph?
Why is it there? What does it do?
What does it say?