Definitions
An overview of the main points
What is a summary?
To write a really good summary you must be able to suspend these for a while
What are your own beliefs?
List summaries have the ability to do this
What is put a listener to sleep?
When introducing summaries, you should try to avoid these
What are bland formulas like "she says" or "they believe"?
The title of this chapter of the book
What is "Her Point Is: The Art of Summarizing"?
Inventories the original author's viewpoints without focusing on a larger claim
What is a "list summary"?
The Zinczenko summary in this section of text is about this topic
What is the fast-food industry (obesity)?
The writer of the response to the article "Don't Blame the Eater" blames this group for children's obesity
Who are the parents of the children?
Name two verbs used for making a claim
What are argue, assert, believe, claim, emphasize, insist, observe, remind us, report, or suggest?
To do justice to the authors you cite, when summarizing or introducing a quotation, you should use these
What are vivid and precise signal verbs?
When you try to inhabit the worldview of those whose conversations you are joining
What is the "believing game"?
One of the main problems with the summary of Zinczenko's article that is written in this section
What is it is an unfair distortion of what the writer actually says?
A good summary will have a focus or spin that allows the text to fit your own agenda while also doing this
What is staying true to the text you are summarizing?
Name two verbs used for expressing agreement
What are acknowledge, admire, agree, endorse, extol, praise, corroborate, reaffirm, support, or verify?
The person who came up with the "believing game"
Peter Elbow
When a writer fails to provide enough summary and what gets summarized is not the view the author actually expressed
What is "closet cliche syndrome"?
If your assignment is to respond to a single author, according to the text, you must do this
What is tell your readers enough about the argument that they can assess the merits on their own?
To avoid the problem of summarizing a text on one issue when the text actually focuses on another issue, you need to do this
What is make sure your "they say" and "I say" match?
Name two verbs used for questioning or disagreeing
What are complain, complicate, contend, contradict, deny, qualify, question, refute, reject, renounce, or repudiate?
"They celebrate the fact that __________________" is an example of ???
What is a template for introducing a summary or quotation?
When a writer deliberately gives his/her own spin to someone else's argument in order to reveal a glaring shortcoming
What is a satirical summary?
When you do not go back to what "others" have said and examine their work very closely, you end up conversing with ??? according to the text
What are imaginary people who are a product of your own biases?
The list summary by Sanford J. Ungar in this chapter focuses on this topic
What is a liberal arts education?
Name two verbs used for making recommendations
What are advocate, call for, demand, encourage, exhort, implore, please, recommend, urge, or warn?
The title of the David Zinczenko article referenced in the text
What is "Don't Blame the Eater"?