Explain how the tips helped you improve your Summary/Response essaY

 

Summarizing a text —boiling it down to its basic ideas —helps us to see and understand its main points, think about what it says, and incorporate it into our own writing. Responding to that text then prompts us to think about-and , say what we think. Together, summarizing and responding is one way that we engage with the ideas of others. In much of the writing that you do, you'll need to cite the ideas of others, both as context for your own thinking and as evidence to support your arguments. One way of introducing what you have to say is to frame it as a response to something others have said about your topic. A good way to do that is by summarizing what they've said, using the summary as a launching pad for what you say. This chapter provides advice for summarizing and responding, a description of the key elements of a summary/response essay, and tips for writing one. W-12a Key Elements of a Summary/Response EssayA dearty identified author and title. Usually the author and title of the bext being summarized are identified in a SIGNAL PHRASE in the first sentence. The author or title may then be abbreviated in the rest of the essay.

A concise summary of the text. The summary presents only the main and supporting ideas in the text, usually in the order in which they appear.Leave out supporting EVIDENCE, ANECDOTES, andCOUNTERARGUMENTS unless they are crucial to understanding the text.

An explicit response with support. Your essay should usually provide a concise statement (one sentence if possible) of your overall response to the text. Your response should be supported by reasons backed up with evidence from the text.An explicit response with support. Your essay should usually provide a concise statement (one sentence if possible) of your overall response to the text. Your response should be supported by reasons backed up with evidence from the text.

 

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