How to write a summary

1. a short clip 2. Introduction on how to write a

summary 3. Read aloud! 4. Summary practice 5. quotable quotes

112/04/202011--Alice Y. Chang 2

Carol Dweck: The power of believing that you can improve

http://www.ted.com/playlists/225/talks_to_get_you_through_your

Reference 1: http://www.enotes.com/topics/how-write-summary#.VOxDUie-68Y.facebook

Reference 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGWO1ldEhtQ

1. include all the main points 2. as brief as possible concise 3. paraphrase using your own words 4. objective 5. basic structure of one paragraph summary:

Topic sentenceSupporting detail (1)Supporting detail (2)Supporting detail (3)

conclusion

Weekly journal

“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.”

— from Walden, Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau