Questions?
Summarizing and Quoting
They Say, I Say chapters 2 and 3.
Try It
In groups, write a paragraph that summarizes Sarah Rainey’s “The extraordinary female codebreakers of Bletchley Park.” Assume that the summary is part of an argument about how accurately Enigma portrays the roles of women at Bletchley Park. Include a quotation from the article in your summary, or in a separate paragraph (or part of a paragraph) that could be part of the same argument.
Put your paragraph(s) in this Google doc for discussion.
Comments
Summaries have a purpose, which defines what information from the original needs to be included.
Keep this purpose in mind as you summarize. Beware the temptation to let the summary drift into some other argument or purpose.
Feel free to provide details from the source about those things relevant to your reason for having the summary.
Quotations (and anything else that steps out of the main line of an argument, e.g., figures or graphs) need framing, i.e., preliminary text that introduces the source of the quotation and reason for using it, and follow-on text that explains how you interpret it in light of the argument you’re using it in.
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Peer reviews of draft Enigma essays.
Bring either a sharable online document, or 2 paper copies of the draft.
Bring your computer.