Monday, January 30, 2012

More Practice Summarizing

For this week's blog post, you are to complete exercise one on page 40 of They Say, I Say. The instructions for that exercise are as follows:

  1. To get a feel for Peter Elbow's "believing game," write a summary of some belief that you strongly disagree with. Then write a summary of the position that you actually hold on this topic. Give both summaries to a classmate or tow, and see if they can tell which position you endorse. If you've succeeded, they won't be able to tell.
Since we are doing this as a blog post, rather than giving this to a classmate, I want you to comment on at least one other student's blog. You are welcome to give any kind of feedback that you think may be helpful, but at minimum, you should comment on whether the summaries present any bias, and why or why not. Please have completed your comments by Monday, February 6.

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