Day 30: Writing Effective Summaries

Objectives
Students will be able to

• identify what kind of information should be included in a summary.
• assess the summary from Hass' article.
• write a 5-6 sentence summary of the second source for the GRP.
• put together their GRP Annotated Bibliography.

I. Writing a good summary
a)  Read the summary you wrote for Hass' article. Do you think it is a complete summary? If someone who hadn't read this source read your summary, do you think he/she would have a good idea of what Hass wrote about?

b)  Use Handout 1 to review your summary for completeness.
c)  Check this PowerPoint Presentation on this topic.
d)   Handout 2 can help you effectively write an academic article or paper.
e)   Work on improving the summary for Hall's article.

II. Writing an annotated bibliography for a new source
The rest of the class will be dedicated to the writing of the annotated bibliography for one more GRP source.

Homework
Assignment 4 (10 points):  GRP Annotated Bibliography with two sources is due on Sunday, April 7.