{"id":1692,"date":"2024-10-01T15:06:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T19:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/?page_id=1692"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T19:06:15","slug":"are-cats-good-an-important-studyusing-a-meme-article-for-teaching-writing-of-analytic-summaries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/are-cats-good-an-important-studyusing-a-meme-article-for-teaching-writing-of-analytic-summaries\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAre Cats Good? An Important Study\u201d:Using a Meme Article for Teaching Writing of Analytic Summaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wei Xu and Hongni Gou<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assignments &amp; Activities Archive<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Xu-and-Gou-AAA-contribution.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Xu and Gou-AAA-contribution.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-f45d2ba9-33b3-4811-8b72-cddb8fc92194\" href=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Xu-and-Gou-AAA-contribution.pdf\">Xu and Gou-AAA-contribution<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Xu-and-Gou-AAA-contribution.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-f45d2ba9-33b3-4811-8b72-cddb8fc92194\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Activity Description<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">This activity is designed as part of the major project \u201cAnnotated Bibliography\u201d in a first-year writing course. At the time the activity is implemented, students should have learned the purpose, context, and audience of an annotated bibliography and that both summaries and evaluations are required for the annotations. This activity thus aims to teach students how to write an analytic summary for each bibliography entry. In this activity, students are firstly presented with the four areas in an analytical summary for an academic source. Students then read two sample summaries and are guided to identify the four areas in each sample. Finally, by reading and summarizing an academic meme article, students were guided to learn how to locate the information in an academic source and practice writing an analytical summary in small groups and then independently. The meme article \u201cAre cats good? An important study\u201d (Owen &amp; Lamon 1) that we purposefully selected for the practice writing activity well follows many conventions of an authentic academic text (e.g., the overall structure, use of academic language). Compared with a real journal article, this one-page text is more manageable and fun for students to use. Nevertheless, a reminder should be provided that a meme article has no scientific rigor, and each section is presented in an oversimplified way. The students are then guided to construct an analytic summary for the meme article collaboratively before they independently write 2 summaries for their own bibliography entries. With this scaffolded activity, students are expected to build their writing skills and internalize the genre knowledge through \u201cdeconstruction,\u201d \u201cjoint construction,\u201d and \u201cindependent construction\u201d as promoted by Caplan and Farling (566).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wei Xu and Hongni Gou Assignments &amp; Activities Archive Activity Description This activity is designed as part of the major project \u201cAnnotated Bibliography\u201d in a first-year writing course. 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