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See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228608809 What's the Gist? Summary Writing for Struggling Adolescent Writers Article · January 2003 CITATIONS 27 READS 49,772 3 authors: Nancy Frey San Diego State University 159 PUBLICATIONS 2,104 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Douglas Fisher San Diego State University 255 PUBLICATIONS 3,195 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Ted Hernandez San Diego Unified School District 1 PUBLICATION 27 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE All content following this page was uploaded by Douglas Fisher on 14 July 2014. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. page 43 Voices from the Middle, Volume 11 Number 2, December 2003 Frey, Fisher, and Hernandez | “What’s the Gist?” Summary Writing for Struggling Adolescent Writers “What’s the Gist?” Summary Writing for Struggling Adolescent Writers Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Ted Hernandez T he ability to write a tight, concise, accurate summary of information is an essential entry point to other writing genres, especially analytical and technical writing. The purpose of a sum- mary, after all, is to convey correct infor- mation in an efficient manner so that the reader can learn the main idea and essen- tial details through a piece that is much shorter than the original. It must also contain the necessary references so the reader can locate it. The summary is not meant to replace the original document. As writing teachers of struggling readers and writ- ers, we knew our students had difficulty with re- stating information in an organized and accurate way. When prompted to summarize a reading, many of our students focused on minor details, interjected their own opinions and experiences, or simply recopied entire sentences from the text. We recognized that this inability to convey pre- cise information impeded their writing in other classes as well, especially in developing research papers and essays in their content classes. Download 159.47 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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