Reflective Journal Summary I learned a lot using the different techniques for journal writing. ... While taking notes during reading, I always found myself doing a summary of the reading. ... The Learning Log entry for the Internet book forced me to analyze the reading and recognize important issues and concepts. ... It was easier to search for objective accounts and information in the Weaver book that I agree or didn't agree with, especially since it was about Whole Language, which is my research topic. ...

• Word Count: 538
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The House On Mango Street Summary This book is about young Latino girl named Esperanza who is growing up in a poor neighborhood in Chicago. ... This book represents the struggle that minorities faced while living in ghetto communities. ...

• Word Count: 322
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

To give more clarity of what I was going to write, I gave a summary of the chapter. What my professor always stresses is the summary of our papers should only be no more of a quarter of the essay, followed by a majority of our response. This was exactly what I did; I provided a summary of the book and parts that interested me. ... I gave a summary of a chapter from the book that supporting why it did not work favorably, then discussed how to avoid those types of mistakes. ... To make my example more persuasive, I effectively used terminology from the book. ...

• Word Count: 653
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The essay begins with a brief introduction of Charles Handy's professional background as a former professor from the London Business School. Now, he is an independent writer and educator working for different organizations ranging from business, government, and health. He wrote a book, The Age...

• Word Count: 659
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

By the end of that introduction paragraph, the writer gets to his thesis statement: the best one- or two-sentence summary of the essay as a whole.  ... A writer who can combine the play-by-play announcer with the color commentator will be well on his way to mastering what teacher's call "development. " Even though the old saying tells us not to judge a book by its cover, readers of all ages make judgments about the way a text looks.  ...

• Word Count: 608
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

I t was this book that allowed Hinton to attend the University Of Tulsa. ... Both books were selected as Honor Books in the Chicago Tribune Book World's Children's Spring Book Festival. ... In this book by a now Seventeen-year-old author, it almost does the trick. ... Summary The Outsiders, an enthralling tale by S.E. ... The pace of the book is the main reason it won so many awards. ...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

BRIEF SUMMARY Explain where this piece fits into the overall narrative. ... Clarity Your summary for the first component should be clear and concise, covering the most important events but leaving out details that are not relevant to your selected passage. ... For a book assigned in class, you can use a simple parenthetical citation: (Douglass, p. 38) or (Brinkley, p. 321). ...

• Word Count: 1035
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

I have read everything from every golden book as a kid to every Mortal Instruments and Nicholas Sparks novel to date. ... I read my first chapter book in third grade and never slowed down after that. ... They would take my book and flashlight and tell me I had to go to sleep. ... We had a few weeks to write a paragraph summary on the chapters of Hatchet that we had read to us in class. ... Now, here in college, I have to write more book reports, research papers and essays much like this one here. ...

• Word Count: 1631
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The Tenth Muse is Bradstreet's most important book of poems because it gives her confidence in her writing. ... In summary, Bradstreet was a colonial key figure that inspired women to not "go with the flow" but to take on men's roles and not settle for less. ...

• Word Count: 823
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The very first day of school we got a school book called "Fibel", with which we learned to read and write small words containing three or four letters. ... In the later classes at school I wrote papers about my holidays, which were about three or four pages of an exercise book, in handwriting. ... Some lectures want you to write something about the author's life and give a short summary on the content of the literary work. ...

• Word Count: 914
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

However, as a "mature student," I have not seen the inside of a grammar book for twenty years until recently. ... For a concise summary I will rely on the words of Noam Chomsky; "When we study human language we are approaching what some might call the "human essence", the distinctive qualities of mind that are, as far as we know, unique to man" (Chomsky). ...

• Word Count: 1333
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His first book, "All Over But the Shoutin'," is about his mother. ... In the prologue of the book he writes, this is not an important book. ... The book quickly became a bestseller. ... Here is an excerpt from the prologue, which sets the tone for the rest of the book. ... Ava's Man is Rick's book about his maternal grandfather, a man he never knew, but had heard of through his ...

• Word Count: 4108
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

These books are used for BOTH English 1101 and 1102 Fall 2013-Summer 2014 so please do not sell back your book at the end of English 1101. ... You may use a used book or read it on an electronic device such as a Kindle or a Nook. ...

• Word Count: 6229
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School