I found that “They Say” and “Her Point Is” are very good example for me to learn how to make sure that bring to light the opposite side of the argument to help the audience understand the response and make it clear for them. And I also notice that my summarizing skills are way off compared to the authors suggestions. He made it very clear on how to make sure to write a good summary of the original text. I have written in depth about the parts that I found important and I also cited from the author’s original text.
As I was reading (“They Say” and “Her Point Is”) I found parts that looked very important to me. The speaker was taking about how Dr. X’s work was great without mentioning anything about the opposing side, which was very confusing …show more content…
I think it’s an important rule to help me be successful in summarizing and analyzing others’ summaries. Other thing that I found it important to be learned is that if I want to write a good summary, I must be able to suspend my own beliefs for a time and put myself in the shoes of someone else. This means playing what the writing theorist Peter Elbow calls the “believing game,” in which you try to inhabit the world view of those whose conversation you are joining and whom you are perhaps even disagreeing with and try to see their argument from their perspective (HPI31). To be a better writer and summarizer, I think that is very important to master the believing game. As the author mentioned that as a writer, when you play the believing game well, readers should not be able to tell whether I agree or disagree with the ideas I am summarizing (HPI31). The author gave an advice that I found very important regarding summarizing in Her Point Is. His advice is to make sure that “they say” and “I say” are well matched. Also he states; aligning what they say with what I say is a good thing to work on when revising what I’ve written. One last important thing that he emphasizes; is that writers who often summarize without regard to their own interests fall prey to what might be called “list summaries” summaries that simply inventory the original author’s various points but fail to focus those points around any larger overall claim
As I was reading (“They Say” and “Her Point Is”) I found parts that looked very important to me. The speaker was taking about how Dr. X’s work was great without mentioning anything about the opposing side, which was very confusing …show more content…
I think it’s an important rule to help me be successful in summarizing and analyzing others’ summaries. Other thing that I found it important to be learned is that if I want to write a good summary, I must be able to suspend my own beliefs for a time and put myself in the shoes of someone else. This means playing what the writing theorist Peter Elbow calls the “believing game,” in which you try to inhabit the world view of those whose conversation you are joining and whom you are perhaps even disagreeing with and try to see their argument from their perspective (HPI31). To be a better writer and summarizer, I think that is very important to master the believing game. As the author mentioned that as a writer, when you play the believing game well, readers should not be able to tell whether I agree or disagree with the ideas I am summarizing (HPI31). The author gave an advice that I found very important regarding summarizing in Her Point Is. His advice is to make sure that “they say” and “I say” are well matched. Also he states; aligning what they say with what I say is a good thing to work on when revising what I’ve written. One last important thing that he emphasizes; is that writers who often summarize without regard to their own interests fall prey to what might be called “list summaries” summaries that simply inventory the original author’s various points but fail to focus those points around any larger overall claim