Chapter 1 Linking Reading and Writing

1. Chapter 1 Linking Reading and Writing

2. Reading-Related Writing • Begins as response to reading • Includes some content from reading • Shows some knowledge of the reading

3. Reading-Related Writing Includes • Reading effectively • Underlining/highlighting • Annotating • Outlining • Summarizing in your own words • Writing a reaction • Writing a two-part response • Summary • Reaction

4. 5-min Break Grammar Assessment 40 minutes, max 10-min break

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6. Techniques for Reading Effectively Underlining/Highlighting Annotating Outlining

7. Underlining / Highlighting • Helps with concentration & focus • Four rules of underlining: • The mainidea(topic sentence) in paragraphs • The support for those main ideas • The answers to your questions • Only the key words

8. “Skim and Scan” • Often not possible to read word for word • What do you already know about topic? • What do you need to/want to know? • Learn to focus on key features • Titles and subtitles • Section introductory paragraphs • Bulleted and numbered portions • Highlighted or boxed material • Illustrations, graphics, charts • Chapter/section summaries

9. Annotating -writing notes in the margins • Related to underlining • Often appears along with underlining • Represents intense involvement • turns a reader into a writer

10. Your response in the margin may • Echo the author’s ideas • Critically question the author’s ideas • Relateauthor’s ideas to something else • Add to the author’s ideas

11. Written Responses to Reading Outlines Summaries Reactions

12. To write an effective summary • Write only about 1/3 as much as original • Concentrate on main ideas, not details • Use your own words (paraphrase) • But don’t change the author’s ideas

13. Effective summary (cont’d) • Seldom use direct quotations • Cite the author and title of text • Use author tags to indicate summary • “. . . , says York.” • “According to York, . . . ” • As York explains, . . . ”

14. When summarizing, Don’t . . . • . . . add ideas • . . . include personal comments

15. A Reaction Statement is text-based writing in which you incorporate your views

16. Reactions may • Require evaluation • with critical-thinking emphasis • Include summary and discussion • Bring in the writer’s experiences • Include opinionated comments

17. A Two-Part Response A clear, concise summary followed by a reaction response

18. Two-part responses • Are used for: • critical examination of text • problem-solving analytical assignments • Help avoid common problem of: • Students’ writing only a summary • Not writing a thoughtful evaluation

19. You Try It! “The Jacket,” by Jack Soto In-class reading, followed by a two-part response of a summary + reaction Read the short story and then write 40-50 words of a summary and 40-50 words of a reaction No more than half a page total Include your name and turn this in!

20. Kinds of Supports for Text-Based Writing • Explanations • Cause and effect • Contrast and compare • References • Author tags • Quotations • Taking words directly from a source and then properly citing (crediting) the source

21. Plagiarism Borrowing words or ideas without giving credit to the originators

22. Academic Honesty at PCC • Handbook of Student Rights and Responsibilities • (http://www.pcc.edu/about/policy/student-rights/student-rights.pdf) • See p. 9 on Academic Integrity Policy

23. Two Types of Basic Documentation • Informal documentation • Formal documentation: MLA • Modern Language Association

24. Informal Documentation: • Identify the source whose material you use • Document any borrowed original idea: • Quoted • Paraphrased • written in your words but not shorter • Summarized • written in your words and shorter

25. Formal MLA Guidelines: • Direct quote or borrowed idea: give author’s last name and page number • It has been said that “neat people are bums and clods at heart” (Britt 255). • Some believe that neat people are weak in character (Britt 255).

26. Formal MLA Guidelines (cont’d): • Author’s name used in introducing an idea or direct quote: page number only • Suzanne Britt says that “neat people are bums and clods at heart” (255). • Suzanne Britt believes that neat people are weak in character (255).

27. Basic Elements of a Works Cited Page: • Author’s name • Editor’s name, if applicable • Title (both chapter and book, if applicable) • Edition, publisher, date • Page number(s) Burns, Tyson M. “My First Real Fire.” Sentences, Paragraphs and Beyond with Integrated Readings. 5th ed. Ed. Lee Brandon and Kelly Brandon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. 120-122.

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