Today we worked on evaluating an article for the purpose of creating an exit exam summary. Remember, there are four general areas of interest when it comes to annotating with the exit exam in mind:
1. Thesis
2. Main Ideas (topic sentences or supporting ideas)
3. Examples (especially expanded narrative examples)
4. Facts and Statistics
Note the major division beteen number two and number three. One and two make up the argument itself. Numbers three and four consist mostly of support. What gets tricky is when an author uses narrative example as his or her primary method of support, thus creating an argument that has "hidden" or implied main ideas.
Remember, we will be writing next class, so come prepared.
No comments:
Post a Comment