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Assignment 1: Considering Reading and Writing Strategies

In this assignment, you will analyze reading or writing strategies. You will also examine prewriting techniques that help you to choose a topic or discover ideas about a topic prior to writing your essay.

You will be required to complete this assignment in two parts.

Part One

Identify two reading or writing strategies covered in this course that you found most useful. Then, do the following:

  • Describe the reading or writing strategies in your own words.
  • Explain why you found them valuable and how you plan to use them in your future courses or beyond.

Write a 1–2-page essay in Word format. Use at least two different prewriting strategies to help you format your thoughts.

Part Two

Then, based on your work in Part One, complete the following:

  • Write a two-paragraph summary of the two prewriting strategies you used and explain how you applied them.
  • Compose an additional paragraph that explains which of the two strategies was more effective and why.

Develop the three-paragraph summary in Word format.

Compile the 1–2-page essay and a three-paragraph summary in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A1.doc.

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Running head: READING AND WRITING

Reading and Writing
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READING AND WRITING

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Part One
Summarizing is the first most useful strategy that was covered. It entails reducing the
large section of text into its bare essentials. Summarizing is a distillation, reduction or
condensation of a large piece of work into its basics which are deemed more important. A
summary is an overall idea of a piece of work in its brief form. Summarizing is a reading and
writing skill that involves stripping away the additional verbiage and focusing on the heart of the
matter (Robinson, 2001). It also involves finding the key phrases and words which when came
across later can still enable one to capture the gist of the original text. The aim of summarizing is
to enhance understanding by attempting to capture the main ideas and the essential details that
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