Reader Response 2

After reading ALL of the assigned readings, summarize them into two-page minimum in total in WORD, and submit through BB. Please summarize your readings with facts only not your opinions. After the due date is missed by one week a zero will be recorded and cannot be submitted.

(1) it is shorter than the source,

(2) it repeats the ideas of the source in different phrases and sentences. 

The purpose of the summary essay is to convey to others an understanding of a text you have read, without their having to read it themselves. Thus for your readers, your summary essay functions as a substitute for the source that you are summarizing. You don’t want to misrepresent your source or mislead your audience. Certainly, an important feature of the summary essay, then, is its fidelity to the source; you must represent your source accurately and comprehensively, with as little of your own interpretation as possible. (Anytime you read and repeat a source, of course, you are interpreting it; but the summary essay asks you to minimize your interpretation as much as possible. Do not add your own examples, explanations, nor opinions for instance.) A summary does not need a conclusion.