Adding a High Tech Touch to
Writing Summaries!
New Spring 2007 -- Here is a flash
presentation that I put together over the past couple of semesters, with the
help of LaVonne Vichlach, who did a recent HIP grant on the use of Camtasia.
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Summary Unit Highlights in
Camtasia
Summary Unit
movie (opens up menu; click
on the individual item and hit play to hear narration) |
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a menu with several of the unit documents, and a brief narration of what to
do with them. The Summary Unit movie covers the following documents:: |
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Previewing
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How to Mark a Book
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Six Steps to marking up text
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The Water Model
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The Water article, part 1
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The Water article, part 2
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Overview of Summary
Writing |
| How
to Mark a Book
(tips on how to read actively & mark up text). This article was written
in 1940 and it's a classic example of good writing.
This has been updated, and now includes the ORIGINAL
article, as taken from the radical academy website.
http://radicalacademy.com/adlermarkabook.htm |
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The Water/Summary Packet
(Cherie's model of how to summarize an article, in six steps) |
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The Faigley Textbook, Power
Point presentation over part one (Chapters 1-4)
Notes from the Power point |
| The Faigley
Textbook, Part two power point presentation (Chapters 5-10)
Notes from
the PPT, Part Two |
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The Water article (The Water
article itself) Here is the one page article about the benefits of drinking
eight glasses of water a day for better health. |
Argumentative writing -- a
Review
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Please review the three
kinds of appeals: logic, ethics and emotion. Also, remember that there are four types of
evidence:
| Statistics |
| Research |
| Expert testimony |
| Examples |
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Cherie's
PowerPoint reviewing Persuasive Writing (Fall 2007)
Notes from the Power point
(in word for easy download) |
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| This assignment builds
on the practice summary activity. Students read and annotate an article
by Fareed Zakaria; they write a summary/critique which they revise and
then send off to Smarthinking, an online tutoring service. Based
on the suggestions of the tutor, they again revise and then turn in
their final version (along with the copy sent back from Smarthinking, so
that I can compare the two versions). |
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Beyond Bush (the article) |
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The worksheet (new
Spring 2008) |
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Beyond
Bush annotated with Cherie's comments |
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Fareed Zakaria's website
Select the "about" link for a brief bio
and background information
Select the "articles" link to go to an
archive of articles written by Fareed Zakaria |
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The assignment
(peer editing/grading slip) |
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The map
(dumped into word) |
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The map
(in Inspiration) |
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The map
(saved as an image) |
| Student sample |
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"Beyond Bush" -- Joshua Galvin's essay, from Fall 2007, with
comments by Cherie (used with permission by the student) |
| Research navigator has
some wonderful resources built into the site; this is part of the Mycomplab
website. Auto Cite is an online citation builder that is part of the
Research Navigator section of the cite.
http://mycomplab.com
Guidelines for both MLA and APA are included. |
| Keys for Writers --
Don't forget the wonderful section of the handbook about MLA and APA
documentation styles, including detailed examples and sample student papers. |
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Citing
Electronic Sources (HCC Library handout, updated Spring 05)
Here
are the guidelines for citing sources located by searching Ebsco Host,
Newsbank, e-books, and more.
Library Handout, in .rtf for easy download |
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Great Resources on the web for help with Documenting Electronic Sources
A collection of links for writers and writing teachers, broken up into
categories. Also includes graphic organizers, the 5 paragraph theme, how to
do an annotated bibliography & more!
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Using In-Text Citations -- As your witty Composition teacher
commented, "More than all you wanted to know!" (Dargan 32).
Updated version, Spring04
in .rtf |
