Following this, we began looking at how to effectively summarize material. This work is setting us up for making use of the sources that people find in their future exploration research and will come in handy with our upcoming work on notecards for the project.
In class, I handed out a variety of responses to questions from the Reddit page "Explain Like I'm Five" where people ask questions with complex answers and other people with knowledge on that subject provide a response that summarizes the topic in an accessible manner. We are looking at these responses to discern what qualities an effective summary of complex material involves. After everyone had time to annotate and analyze these responses, we discussed trends that people noticed (see handouts for activity directions and questions). I wrote down key elements of this discussion on chart paper (see responses below).
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| Post-reading questions with a copy of the speech register chart Click Image to Enlarge |
- Follow step by step order
- Formal speech register and explained difficult/unfamiliar words (rather than using a casual register to avoid the words)
- Very direct, gets right to the point
- Provide examples to help explain
- Focus on what is essential
- Make comparisons to familiar things
- Use consultative register to bridge formal knowledge and casual understandings
- Starting off to the point
- Repeating key terms
Handouts:
Explain Like I'm 5: Activity
Homework:
Find a minimum of two sources for the "what" section of your future research project and record them on your works cited spreadsheet.
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