Reviewing the WSM and Cohen's Article |
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Introduce the Class Session and take roll (1-2 minutes) |
By referring to your agenda on the
board or by previewing the day's goals/objectives, introduce the
class session for your students. You might say something
like: Today we're going to review summary and the Writing
Situation Model. We'll also work on some revision strategies
for summary writing. Hopefully this will help you with some
of the challenges you may have experienced in writing your summary
of Cohen's article. |
Sample Transition to Next ActivityConsider using a transition such as the following: Now that we've reviewed the process and concepts of summary, let's expand on those by looking at the Writing Situation Model again. |
Sample Transition to Next ActivityConsider using a transition like the following: Looking at the responses we've just compiled, why is it important to think critically about a text's writing situation? Why is it especially helpful to do so before writing an academic summary and response to an author's text (like you'll do in Portfolio 1)? |