Paraphrasing Worksheet

MGMT 640 - Paraphrasing Worksheet

For this activity, you will prepare a summary for the article Why So Many Organizations Stay White and a summary for the video The Urgency of Intersectionality that is directed towards specific people.

1. Identify a specific person/people who could benefit from learning the information you gained from Why So Many Organizations Stay White and The Urgency of Intersectionality. They can be a manager, coworker, friend, family member, neighbor, professor, etc. They will be the target audience for your summaries.

In the space below, write their initials and role(s)/relation to you. This can be 1 or more people.

Initials:  Role/relation to you:

2. Think about special considerations regarding your target audience -- such as their social identities / group memberships, values, biases, privileges, triggers/defensiveness, skepticism, resistance, etc. -- that might affect their reactions to Why So Many Organizations Stay White and The Urgency of Intersectionality.

In the space below, describe these special considerations (1-2 sentences each).

1. Article - Special Consideration #1:  2. Article - Special Consideration #2:  3. Video - Special Consideration #1:  4. Video - Special Consideration #2:

3. Write a summary for Why So Many Organizations Stay White and a summary for The Urgency of Intersectionality with the person/people you identified above as the target audience. That is, use your own words to paraphrase the information you learned in such a way that it will be understandable and digestible to someone who has never taken this class. 

Summary #1: Why So Many Organizations Stay White

Summary #2: The Urgency of Intersectionality