EFFECTIVE SHARINGSUMMARY WORKSHOP ENG 101 Effective Sharing Everyone

EFFECTIVE SHARING/SUMMARY WORKSHOP ENG 101

Effective Sharing Everyone faces each other. Read aloud clearly, making sure everyone in the group can hear you—but people in other groups can’t. Be tactful—respond as you’d like to be responded to. Be a listener as well as a contributor. Don’t argue with your readers. They read what they read, hear what they hear. Make sure everyone has time to share and get response —but don’t rush, either. Use the time to good advantage. The goal: To help each other improve your writing.

They Say/I Say on Summarizing: Believing Game: “Readers should not be able to tell whether you agree or disagree with the ideas you are summarizing. ” (29) “You will need to tell your readers enough about [the author’s] argument so they can assess its merits on their own, independent of you. ” (30 -1) Closest cliché syndrome: not summarizing the author’s view, but a familiar cliché the reader mistakes for it. (31) Summarize with an eye toward the author’s central claim and how it fits with your agenda (31 -33) Avoid list summaries (33)

Summary Workshop 1. 2. Read your summary aloud to the group. As a group, help each other answer these questions (and revise the summaries!): Does the writer introduce the summary with a signal phrase? Does the writer identify the essay’s thesis? Is the summary accurate? Does the writer get the facts straight? Is it fair? Does the writer use precise verbs? Does the writer avoid including his/her own beliefs? Is the summary in the writer’s own words?