Essay 2: Summary and AnalysisPurpose: Your purpose for this essay is to summarize two voices in a conversation, specifically, Lehman,“The Student Loan Trap…” and Opoku-Agyeman and Addo, “Student Loan Forgiveness CriticsAre Wrong…” You can find these articles in the Essay 2 folder in Brightspace. Your job is to, first,compose two comprehensive, accurate, brief, independent, and neutral summaries and,second, briefly analyze the choices made by the authors. You will maintain neutrality in this essay; that is, you will fairly and accurately represent eachposition so that the author of each position can recognize their argument in your summary. Wewon’t know how you feel about the opinions you summarize. Even for the analysis section, youwill report what you see not assert whether you agree or not. You will use ID tags and signal verbs in virtually every sentence of your summaries. You will rely on paraphrasing, primarily. Although, you may use word-for-word quotationssparingly, if at all. Keep in mind that a summary is putting another’s words into your own words.If you overuse quotations, you aren’t summarizing. The goal for this essay is to help you master summary skills, become familiar with thecomplexities of a controversy, as well as gain practice listening to and accurately representingwhat others say in a complex debate. Additionally, you will analyze how the authors use certainmoves common to academic writing.Audience: Your audience for this essay will be concerned, interested, yet uninformed citizens who arelooking to you to provide an unbiased, accurate representation of the voices in this debate.Format: Format your essay in MLA styleStructure:First paragraph:o You need to begin in a way that introduces your readers to the conversation. You don’twant to begin with the first summary. Instead, you want to briefly introduce the issueand the two voices that are taking part in the conversation.o Explain for your readers the basics of this conversation and offer a sense of why thisconversation is important.o For example, you may want to begin by telling your audience who this controversyaffects, how the outcome of the controversy may affect them, and why this controversyis important—answer the questions “Who cares?” and “So what?”o To briefly introduce the varying positions within the conversation, give readers a verybrief glimpse into what each of the authors says. This will help you briefly introduce thedebate for your readers before you dive into the summaries. Here’s one way to do that: In response to the question “How does technology affect our thinking and ourconnection to others?” Nicholas Brody, Nicholas Carr, Sherry Turkle, and AgustinFuentes agree that technology impacts us in significant ways, positively andnegatively. Brody argues that smartphones ______. In contrast, Carr contendsthat smartphones ______. Sherry Turkle agrees with much of Carr’s position, butshe adds that ______. Agustin Fuentes, on the other hand, focuses on ______and argues that ______.Body paragraphs:o CABIN SUMMARIES: This is where you will compose a CABIN (comprehensive, accurate, brief,independent, and neutral) summary of each article, one after the other. You canuse the summaries you’ve already written for Lehman and Opoku-Agyeman andAddo. Use one paragraph per summary, for this essay. Make sure you use ID Tags throughout, carefully selecting the most accuratesignal verbs for what the authors are doing. Use transitions to capture the flow of the authors’ ideas. After the first summary, you will need to transition to the 2nd summary and attimes, as part of the 2nd summary, mention how the 2nd author’s ideas compareor contrast with the 1st author’s ideas. You can do this simply by saying, “WhereLehman argues X, Opoku-Agyeman and Addo argue Y” and so on. You can find anumber of helpful templates in the “Index of Templates” link in the Essay 2Assignment Sheet folder.o ANALYSIS of WRITING MOVES the authors make: After your two summaries, you will identify writing moves that the authorsmake. Which moves? In the Essay 2 folder in Brightspace, you will find four chaptersfrom our book They Say / I Say. Each chapter discusses different moves writersmake in academic writing, and the They Say / I Say authors give readers varioustemplates they can use to make those moves. Your job is to compose one paragraph in which you identify three differentmoves Lehman makes. You need to identify the move and where you read about that move(again, you will find these moves in the They Say / I Say chapters in theEssay 2 folder), like this:o In Chapter 3 of They Say / I Say, Graff and Birkenstein discusswhat they call the Quotation Sandwich move—which means… You will then quote Lehman to show that Lehman did use that move. Do this for two more and different moves. Then do the same for Opoku-Agyeman and Addo in a separate paragraph. This means your essay should have five paragraphs: intro, two summaries, twoanalyses.o For each of these analysis paragraphs, have a topic sentence that begins the paragraph.Offer your three academic moves and quotations. Use transitions to create coherencebetween your sentences. Remember: you aren’t judging how well the writer uses themoves; you are simply show that they used the moves.Concluding paragraph:o There is no need for a concluding paragraph since you are not drawing any conclusionsand your introduction will say all you need to say about the significance of the issue.
Directions: Write 350-500 words in response to the following topic: Topic Persuade an audience about your major or pathway. Explain to the audience why your choice of major is important and relevant.
Directions: Write 350-500 words in response to the following topic: Topic Persuade an audience about your major or pathway. Explain to the audience why your choice of major is important and relevant. Include at least 3 reasons why others should pursue your chosen field. This persuasive essay may be written