2.1 Summary Writing

Outline for this lesson:

• Identify common introductory phrases for summary writing, practicing correcting weak phrases.
• Understand purpose and variation in summary reminder phrases, practicing correcting weak phrases.
• Identify strengths and weakness in sample summary texts.

A. Before writing a summary

Discuss the following questions:

• What do you need to do before writing a summary?
• What are the qualities that a good summary have?

Writing a good summary requires these things 


B. Exercise

What are strong and weak summaries?
click here to practice. Please only look at page 1

Task 8 & 10: click here


C. Homework:

Read article #1 "Alternatives to animal testing gaining ground: Researchers, regulators develop new systems for experiments", and summarize it 1/3 of the original length.
DUE: Next Monday, 09/28 by 11:59pmvia Compass2g website