Summary/response essay

From the readings below select two texts and write a thesis-based Summary/Response Essay (from 1200 to 1500 words) in 4 pages composed of a summary of the main ideas of both texts and a response (your personal critique or evaluation of the author's essay). It should:

1. Explain your view about the rhetorical effectiveness and ideas of the two texts.  Demonstrate an understanding of rhetorical concepts. 
2. Recognize the rhetorical strategies and stylistic choices made by both writers
3. Summarize each (2) writer's argument succinctly (in 150-250 words). 
4. Explain how each text tries to influence its readers rhetorically and how your comprehension of the text has expanded your thinking about its ideas 
5. Incorporate quotations, summary, and paraphrase using quotation marks, and MLA citation style.

Readings

• • Ten Ways To Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Students (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. by E. Shelley Reid
• • Composition as a Write of Passage (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. by Nathalie Singh-Corcoran
• • Critical Thinking in College Writing: From the Personal to the Academic (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. by Gita DasBender
• • Looking for Trouble: Finding Your Way into a Writing Assignment (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. by Catherine Savini
• • How to Read Like a Writer (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. by Mike Bunn

These texts are available at http://writingspaces.org/volume2 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Format for Summary/Response Essays:

1. Present the summary in a block of paragraphs, followed by the response in a block:

Intro/thesis
Summary (two to three paragraphs)
Agreement (or disagreement)
Disagreement (or agreement)
Conclusion