DB1 Additional Help Links

SAMPLE PAPERS

CLICK HERE to see Sample Papers written in the Summary, Analysis, and Response layout.  Keep in mind that for my ENGL101 Discussion Board assignment #1, you are not writing a full essay.  You will be writing a response post.  See the assignment directions in the classroom for more details on word count.

Step 3: Respond to the Strengths and Weaknesses of Source

1. OVERVIEW: Summary, Analysis, and Response Assignment
2. PURPOSE: Summary, Analysis, and Response Assignment
• Step 1: Summarize the Source [Purpose, Audience, and Context]
• Step 2: Analyze the Source
• Step 3: Respond to the Source

How to Write a Summary / Analysis / Response
ENGL101 DB1

Step 3: Respond to the Strengths and Weaknesses of Source

A source can be an advertisement, article, video, speech, cartoon, etc.  Follow the guidelines below to help you summarize your source.

T.R.A.C.E. = Text, Reader, Author, Context, and Exigence

T.R.A.C.E. 

stands for Text, Reader, Author, Context, and Exigence

Analysis requires knowing who the author is trying to persuade and what he or she wants the audience to think, do, or believe.

Step 2: Analyze the Source

1. OVERVIEW: Summary, Analysis, and Response Assignment
2. PURPOSE: Summary, Analysis, and Response Assignment
• Step 1: Summarize the Source [Purpose, Audience, and Context]
• Step 2: Analyze the Source
• Step 3: Respond to the Source

How to Write a Summary / Analysis / Response
ENGL101 DB1

Step 2: Analyze the Source

A source can be an advertisement, article, video, speech, cartoon, etc.  Follow the guidelines below to help you summarize your source.

For our ENGL101 Discussion Board assignment, you were asked to Describe the Rhetorical Situation of the video (purpose, audience, context). 

You will analyze the source—with the focus being the purpose, audience, and context of the video.  

Steps in Writing

Analysis requires knowing who the author is trying to persuade and what he or she wants the audience to think, do, or believe.

Step 1: Summarize the Source

1. OVERVIEW: Summary, Analysis, and Response Assignment
2. PURPOSE: Summary, Analysis, and Response Assignment
• Step 1: Summarize the Source [Purpose, Audience, and Context]
• Step 2: Analyze the Source
• Step 3: Respond to the Source

How to Write a Summary / Analysis / Response
ENGL101 DB1

Step 1: Summarize the Source

A source can be an advertisement, article, video, speech, cartoon, etc.  Follow the guidelines below to help you summarize your source.

Transition Words List

Transition Words List

Contrast	Adding Ideas	Emphasis
Although	In addition	Especially
However	Furthermore	Usually
In contrast	Moreover	For the most part
Nevertheless	In fact	Most importantly
On the contrary	Consequently	Unquestionably
Still	Again	Obviously

For a complete list, see my Hub "Easy Words to Use as Sentence Starters."

Sample Essays

[written in the Summary, Analysis, Response layout]

Students in my ENGL101 course will use the basics for this summary, analysis, response layout, but our assignment is not calling for a full essay.  Stick to the brevity mentioned in the actual assignment sheet for our class.

Different ways to indicate who said what (and how, and where)

Author Tag List

Author's Name	Article	Words for "Said"	Adverbs to Use With "Said"
James Garcia	"whole title"	argues	carefully
Garcia	"first couple of words"	explains	clearly
the author	the article (book etc.)	describes	insightfully
the writer	Garcia's article	elucidates	respectfully
the historian (or other profession)	the essay	complains	stingingly
essayist	the report	contends	shrewdly

Different ways to indicate who said what (and how, and where).

Content in blue boxes are the words of J. Dick.

Elaboration/corrective content by J. Dick, within Kearney’s writing, can be found in [brackets]. 

These brackets are not Kearney’s ideas. 

The bracketed content is infused by J. Dick for the edification of ENGL101 students.

Table of Contents                                       Next Page

1. OVERVIEW: Summary, Analysis, and Response Assignment
2. PURPOSE: Summary, Analysis, and Response Assignment
• Step 1: Summarize the Source [Purpose, Audience, and Context]
• Step 2: Analyze the Source
• Step 3: Respond to the Source

How Often Do You Mention the Author?

How Often Do You Mention the Author?

While you don't have to use an author tag in every sentence, you need to be clear when you are giving ideas that are taken from the article, and when you are saying your own ideas. 

Summary, Analysis, and Response [S.A.R.] Writing

Table of Contents

1. OVERVIEW: Summary, Analysis, and Response Assignment
2. PURPOSE: Summary, Analysis, and Response Assignment
• Step 1: Summarize the Source 
• [Purpose]
• Step 2: Analyze the Source 
• [Audience, Context, and Argument]
• Step 3: Respond to the Source 
• [Persuassiveness and Logic of the Argument]

Sample Format of Summary Starter Sentence

 Sample Format of Summary Starter Sentence

In the previous section, you were instructed to write down one sentence, in your own words, that conveys the main idea [purpose]. Start the sentence using the name of the author and title of the article (see format below).

Article with my Embedded Directions for ENGL101

Article with my Embedded Directions for ENGL101

To see Virginia Kearney’s full article about writing a response paper—without my notes and guidance for our specific assignment—you can follow THIS LINK. 

Otherwise, if you are in my ENGL101 course, please see her article, with my guidance in colored boxes on the next few pages, to help you construct your summary, analysis, and response argument based on the assigned video.

How to Write a Summary, Analysis, and Response Essay Paper—with Examples

Updated on May 17, 2017

By Virginia Kearney 

Virginia has been a university English instructor for over 20 years.

She specializes in helping people write essays faster and easier.

Content in blue boxes are the words of J. Dick.

Furthermore, elaboration/corrective content within Kearney’s writing can be found in [brackets].  These brackets are not Kearney’s ideas.  The bracketed content is infused by J. Dick for the edification of ENGL101 students.

Table of Contents                                       Next Page

1. OVERVIEW: Summary, Analysis, and Response Assignment
2. PURPOSE: Summary, Analysis, and Response Assignment
• Step 1: Summarize the Source [Purpose, Audience, and Context]
• Step 2: Analyze the Source
• Step 3: Respond to the Source

PURPOSE: S. A. R. Assignment

1. OVERVIEW: Summary, Analysis, and Response Assignment
2. PURPOSE: Summary, Analysis, and Response Assignment
• Step 1: Summarize the Source [Purpose, Audience, and Context]
• Step 2: Analyze the Source
• Step 3: Respond to the Source

What the Instructor is Looking for YOU TO LEARN in the Assignment

Summary, Analysis, and Response Assignment

Thinking About What the Instructor is Looking for in the Assignment

A professor often assigns such writing at the beginning of a course so that a student becomes fully aware of how student submissions will be reviewed by the professor, and it gives students practice being analytical when reading an argument.