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Assignment -

Need to write a summary as per the instructions given.

Case Study - Arranging a Marriage in India

In a summary / response essay, the opening paragraph addresses the summary. The summary must be objective. That is, it must report only what you have read; it does not include your opinions or interpretations, Therefore, a well-written summary should never include the personal pronouns I or me, On the other hand, the response, which follows the summary, is subjective and consists of your interpretations of and opinions about the material summarized at the beginning of the essay.

A summary / response organization, with examples from the writing model, looks like this:

Introductory Paragraph - The summary appears in the opening paragraph(s). It identifies the author, topic, and title of the reading and states the main ideas, usually in the sequence of the original. The final sentence can restate the topic or transition into the response.

First Body Paragraph - The response appears in the remaining paragraphs. The first paragraph of the body transitions into the response and states the central claim of the reaction (thesis).

Transition: restates the author's name and recycles language from the previous paragraph.

Thesis: states his belief that the author's life might have been easier if his parents had done things differently.

Subsequent Body Paragraphs - Each subsequent body paragraph states a main supporting idea to your claim and supports it with examples, details, and explanations.

Paragraph 3: parents could have spoken English as well as Spanish at home.

Paragraph 4: parents could have exposed the author to both Spanish-speaking and English-speaking cultures.

Paragraph 5: his father need not have displayed his own bitterness toward "Gringo" culture.

Concluding Paragraph - The last paragraph restates the central claim of the response.

Paragraph 6: If the Rodriguez parents had been more thoughtful, their relationship with their sons might have been better.

The two parts of the summary and response are closely linked. A reader may not accept the arguments of your response if the summary is inaccurate or incomplete. Therefore, you must take special care to ensure that your summary is accurate, clear, and concise. You must likewise construct a clear and well-supported response that addresses the issues raised in the summary.

WRITING THE OPENING SUMMARY - Follow this procedure to prepare your summary.

1. Preview the reading. Scanning the material before starting to read it will help you see its general organization and main ideas. In textbooks, look for chapter objectives or chapter-ending summaries. In long articles or chapters in a book, look for headings that identify central ideas. And in any work, look at the opening paragraph, the first sentence of body paragraphs, and the conclusion.

2. Read the selection carefully. Then read slowly, highlighting or underlining topic sentences and making notes in the margins. Do the same with supporting ideas. Reread difficult passages until you are sure that you understand them.

3. Take notes and plan. Return to the parts you have highlighted or underlined. Then jot down a list of the ideas you want to include. Focus on the main ideas, not on supporting details.

4. Organize your ideas. List or outline the main points in a clear and consistent arrangement. In most cases, you will follow the organization of the original, presenting the information in the same sequence.

5. Draft a thesis statement that captures the main point of the material you are summarizing.

6- Write the summary in the present tense since you are explaining what the material says' now-as you read it-even though the author wrote in the past. Do not copy sentences or parts of sentences from the original. Paraphrase the material, and, if necessary, quote short phrases from the original. If you omit words when quoting, you can use ellipsis marks (. . .) to show where they are omitted.

7. Introduce your response in a transitional 5eatence, either at the end of the summary paragraph or in the first sentence of the second paragraph.

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