Day 3: Summarizing

1. Test your ability to recognize a summary HERE. Answers HERE.
2. Read/Annotate/Discuss: "Summarizing" (5). See also "Signal Phrases" (12). 
3. Read: "How to Do One Thing at a Time" (6). Underline the parts of the reading that correspond to the different parts of  the professor's summary and connect them with arrows.
4. In your group, summarize "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (4) in a MSWord document. 
5. Once you are satisfied with the summary, paste it HERE. To evaluate the summaries, go HERE

Homework

1. If you have not already, please submit your plan for revising "Hype" HERE. Responses HERE.
2. Write a new summary of "Hype." This will be piece #3 of your print portfolio.
3. Complete these two CUNY Test tutorials from John Jay College of Criminal Justice:

• Identifying good summaries for CATW essays
• Writing good summaries