HW 46 - Research and Writing

For this HW, due the morning we return from Spring Break, please;
1. Finish reading your novel, book, or article(s) of more than 40+ pages which relate to your chosen topic.
2. Write a short one-paragraph summary of the text. Describe, in a few short sentences, the main arguments or action of the text.
3. Write a short one-paragraph summary of how the text relates to your topic.
4. Write an additional paragraph or two analyzing and interpreting the text, in relation to your topic.

If you still haven't found a text, or have switched topics, please find a text that relates to your topic. Don't forget ERIC - the most comprehensive source. If your primary text is less than 40 pages please supplement it with additional sources until you get to roughly that page count.

For steps 3 & 4 - a summary includes description - "Chocolate War's depicts the majority's fear of the minority's cruelty which strongly relates to my topic of interpersonal dynamics in schools." You re-state an aspect of the text succinctly and accurately - virtually any intelligent reader would agree with your restatement.

An analysis or interpretation includes your original or interesting connections and opinions, "Chocolate War demonstrates that the individual can not ultimately resist the force of the institution - and since we're all individuals in institutions, that's an important insight, especially for my topic of how individual students should orient themselves to schools." Analysis or interpretation can provide more creative or daring claims of what a text suggests than summary.

For more discussion of the very important difference between summary and interpretation please click here - you can simultaneously press "CONTRL", "OPTION", "APPLE", and "8" to reverse the colors.