briefly summarize. Use your own words to summarize the passage. Next, provide your commentary about the selection you just summarized by taking an idea, issue, conflict, theme, etc. and exploring it. Consider some of the following questions as you respond: What word was the author attempting to define? How has it altered your point of view on the topic? How was the author persuasive? What questions do you have about the text? Finally, review the text as if it were a peer's essay. Consider the following criteria: What elements make this piece a part of the "Report" genre? How did the author relate the word to our current culture? Does the author have an attention getter and is it effective? Does the author have a thesis? How does the author incorporate background? What sources does the author choose to include and are they effective? How is the author objective/bias? Which style elements would you mimic in your own report? What elements did the author lack?

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