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English 1301

Week 5 – Day 1

Tuesday, February 13, 2018Slide2

Just

a Reminder …

Always

come to class having read the assigned articles.

From this point onward, each article we read will be used in the essays for both Unit II and Unit III.

You

cannot complete

final essays without having read any of the articles / additional readings.

If you come to class having not read anything, then you

cannot participate

in class activities. Slide3

Topics &

G

oals of

the

Day

Topics

: Free

write,

listening to texts, conversations, practice summary

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UNIT II: Reading the Conversations

Over

the next few weeks, we will be reading four texts that are in explicit or implicit

conversation

with each other in our theme. You will need to select two of these texts to include in your

essay

Prensky

, Marc. “Games Are NOT the Enemy.” Don’t Bother Me Mom—I’m Learning: How Computer and Video Games Are Preparing Your Kids for 21st Century Success—and How You Can Help! Paragon House, 2006, pp. 1-15.

Gee

, James Paul. “Learning and Identity: What Does It Mean to be a Half-Elf?” What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy. Revised and updated ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 45-69

.

Ramanan

,

Chella

. “The Video Game Industry has a Diversity Problem—But It Can Be Fixed.” The Guardian, 15 Mar. 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/15/video-gameindustry-diversity-problem-women-non-white-people

“Video

Games Have a Diversity Problem That Runs Deeper Than Race or Gender.” The Guardian, 10 Sept. 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/10/video-games-diversityproblem-runs-deeper-than-race-gender Slide5

What is

a Summary?

Summary

means providing your readers with a condensed version of

an author’s key points from an entire article

.

A

summary can be as short as one sentence or much longer, depending on the complexity of the text and the level of detail you wish to provide to your readers.Slide6

Steps to Summarize

1

.

A summary usually begins with an introductory clause that states the article’s title and author.

Example:

In “Games Are NOT the Enemy,” Marc

Prensky

…

2

.

Write a summary in your own words. Do not use quotes.

3. A summary should contain all of the

major points

(

audience + purpose

) of the original text. Do not focus entirely on the fine details, examples, or illustrations.

4. A summary must contain

only

the ideas of the original text.

Do not insert

any of your own opinions, interpretations, deductions, or comments into the summary.Slide7

Free Writing

Ramanan

,

Chella

. “The Video Game Industry has a

Diversity Problem—but It Can Be Fixed

.”

Write me a summary (one paragraph) of this article.Slide8

SUMMARY WORKSHOP

Mention the

title of the article

and the

name of the author

.

Mention and discuss a

specific audience

/ Mention and discuss the

purpose

.

Provide context for article and

comprehensively yet selectively

explain author’s reasoning or how they make the argument. Your goal is to explain the argument for the reader, but you can’t include EVERYTHING.

What is important and relevant?

Summary must accurately, fairly, clearly convey the

author’s main point, thesis, or claim

, usually using an active transitive verb.

Include

strong verbs

. Include vivid

and specific

adjectives. (Example:

Munnecke

contends

.

Munnecke

asserts.

Munnecke

challenges

…)Slide9

What is paraphrasing?

Paraphrasing

involves putting a

passage (

a paragraph, a few sentences, etc.

) from source material in your

own words

.

Paraphrased

material is

usually shorter than the original passage

, taking a somewhat broader segment of the source and condensing it.Slide10

Steps to Paraphrase

1. When reading the paragraph that you will paraphrase, make a note

only of the author’s basic point

(or points). You don’t necessarily need to use full sentences.

2. In your notes, you should already be

translating the language of the original text

into your

own words

. Capturing the original idea matters most here.

3. When you are ready to write the paper,

rely on your notes rather than on the author’s work

. You will find it much easier to avoid borrowing from the original passage because you will not have seen it recently.

**Whenever you paraphrase,

remember that the paraphrase must be in your own words

. You

must do more than merely substitute phrases and words

: you must create your own sentence structures using your own words and phrases. Finding new words for ideas that are already well-expressed can be difficult, but changing words should not be your chief aim. Slide11

In a paraphrase you must…

Refer explicitly to the author

in your paraphrase. 

Analyze

.

 Tell your reader, who has never read this passage before,

what is important

to know about this passage.

Only include

the details that are most

important

to your paraphrase.

Not all of the details from the original passage need to be included in the paraphrase

. Since you are the one communicating these ideas to another human, it is up to you to decide which details are most important.Slide12

Passage from Oliver Sacks’ essay “An Anthropologist on Mars.”

Original Passage

Poor Paraphrase

The cause of autism has also been a matter of dispute. Its incidence is about one in a thousand, and it occurs throughout the world, its features remarkably consistent even in extremely different cultures. It is often not recognized in the first year of life, but tends to become obvious in the second or third year. Though Asperger regarded it as a biological defect of affective contact—innate, inborn, analogous to a physical or intellectual defect—

Kanner

tended to view it as a psychogenic disorder, a reflection of bad parenting, and most especially of a chillingly remote, often professional, "refrigerator mother." At this time, autism was often regarded as "defensive" in nature, or confused with childhood schizophrenia. A whole generation of parents—mothers, particularly—were made to feel guilty for the autism of their children.

The cause of the condition autism has been disputed. It occurs in approximately one in a thousand children, and it exists in all parts of the world, its characteristics strikingly similar in vastly differing cultures. The condition is often not noticeable in the child’s first year, yet it becomes more apparent as the child reaches the age of two or three. Although Asperger saw the condition as a biological defect of the emotions that was inborn and therefore similar to a physical defect,

Kanner

saw it as psychological in origin, as reflecting poor parenting and particularly a frigidly distant mother. During this period, autism was often seen as a defense mechanism, or it was misdiagnosed as childhood schizophrenia. An entire generation of mothers and fathers (but especially mothers) were made to feel responsible for their offspring’s autism.Slide13

Passage from Oliver Sacks’ essay “An Anthropologist on Mars.”

Original Passage

Good Paraphrase

The cause of autism has also been a matter of dispute. Its incidence is about one in a thousand, and it occurs throughout the world, its features remarkably consistent even in extremely different cultures. It is often not recognized in the first year of life, but tends to become obvious in the second or third year. Though Asperger regarded it as a biological defect of affective contact—innate, inborn, analogous to a physical or intellectual defect—

Kanner

tended to view it as a psychogenic disorder, a reflection of bad parenting, and most especially of a chillingly remote, often professional, "refrigerator mother." At this time, autism was often regarded as "defensive" in nature, or confused with childhood schizophrenia. A whole generation of parents—mothers, particularly—were made to feel guilty for the autism of their children.

In

“An Anthropologist on Mars,” Sacks list some of the known facts about autism. We know, for example, that the condition occurs in roughly one out of every three thousand children. Sacks also reveals that the characteristics of autism do not vary from one culture to the next. Moreover, the condition is difficult to diagnose until the child has entered the second or third year of life because, as Sacks points out, a child with autism will not show signs in the first year of his life. Sacks observes that researchers have had a hard time agreeing on the causes of autism. He sketches the diametrically opposed positions of Asperger and

Kanner

. On the one hand, Asperger saw the condition as representing a constitutional defect in the child’s ability to make meaningful emotional contact with the external world. On the other hand,

Kanner

regarded autism as a consequence of harmful childrearing practices. For many years, confusion about this condition reigned. One unfortunate consequence of this confusion, Sacks suggests, was the burden of guilt imposed on so many parents for their child’s condition.Slide14

Just

a Reminder …

For

Thursday, February

15

, you will read the following: