Week 2: Tuesday, September 3rd - Friday, September 6th
Goals for this Week
- Revisit
the concept of summarizing. Review the notion of objectivity versus fairness
and discuss the three types of summaries: main point, key point, and outline
summaries.
- Strengthen
students’ understanding of the writing situation model by applying it to an
example of public discourse, Peter Singer's essay, “The Singer Solution
to World Hunger” (http://www.petersingerlinks.com/solution.htm)
- Discuss
the importance of purpose, audience and context for writing summaries.
- Assign Peter
Schrag's essay, "High Stakes are for Tomatoes" (http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/08/schrag.htm).
- Discuss
effective use of paraphrasing and quoting. (See page 194 in PHG.)
- Introduce
the concept of responding. Describe the three types of response used in
this course: agree/disagree, interpretive/reflective, analytic/evaluative.
You’ll find a discussion of these types of response in the teaching guide
on summarizing and responding at https://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/summaryresponse/.
Activities for this Week
Detailed lesson plans are available for the first four weeks
of the course. Beginning in the fifth week, you will be expected to choose
activities from a set of suggested activities and/or develop your own
activities that will help you and your students achieve the course goals for a
specific week.
|
