WRITING CENTER "INFORMATION PICK-UP" (S.S.C.C.)
SUMMARY AND RESPONSE WRITING:
• WHAT IS A SUMMARY?
• WHAT IS A RESPONSE?
• WHAT ARE SOME POINTS TO CONSIDER WHEN WRITING THESE?
• WHAT KIND OF A WORD LIST WOULD BE USEFUL TO USE WHEN
"GLEANING" VOCABULARY FROM AN ACADEMIC READING?
General Information
TITLE OR HEADLINE: "__________________________________________________________"
AUTHOR: _____________________ DATE OF PUBLICATION: ________________________
PUBLICATION SOURCE: _______________________________________________________
Essay Analysis
TOPIC OR SUBJECT MATTER: __________________________________________
MAIN IDEA: (Write this in a complete sentence, please.)
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SOCIAL VALUE (Discuss
the value of the piece of writing to society and the public. For example, it could have entertainment,
educational, medical, social, scientific, artistic, or other types of value.)
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SUMMARY What actually
happened in the essay? Tell what
happened objectively and factually.
Tell "who, what, when, where, why and how":
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SOURCE(S) OF
INFORMATION: Where did the author(s)
get information for the essay?
(Did he/she use interviews, published sources, personal
observation, historical research, or other methods to get data? Do you exercise healthy skepticism?)
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Are these sources believable?
Why or why not?
I found the information sources BELIEVABLE or UNBELIEVABLE because: _____________________________________________________________
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STUDENT PERSONAL RESPONSE:
(Here, you may discuss your ideas in comparison or contrast to those of
the author’s ideas. You may discuss
your emotional response; the author’s style, tone, organization, beginning,
body or conclusion, and other factors.
Please use your own ideas and experiences of the world to respond.)
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NEW VOCABULARY WORDS FROM THIS READING SELECTION FOR THE INDIVIDUAL
STUDENT:
Note #1: If you find no "new" words, then
please review the meanings of "old" words--in their full
complexity. It is unacceptable to write
that you have absolutely no new words in the reading selections, which are
high-level readings.
Note #2: All sentences below should be the ORIGINAL
CREATIVE work of STUDENTS. DO NOT COPY
the sentence from which you took the new/review words. Use the words in sentences of your own
imagination and thinking.
WORD: ___________________________________________
PHONETIC SPELLING (for pronunciation): ____________________________
PART OF SPEECH: NOUN VERB ADVERB ADJECTIVE PRONOUN PREPOSITION OTHER
SYNONYMS:___________________________________________________
DEFINITIONS: __(1)_________________________________________________________
__(2)_________________________________________________________
__(3)_________________________________________________________
USE IN AN ORIGINAL SENTENCE (written by the student himself/herself): ____________________________________________________________
(Revised 1998)