Skype Class - an introduction to summary writing

23 Março 2020, 16:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

In preparation for the summary writing evaluated exercises that students will now submit on 8th April (the second written evaluated exercise is either a 500-word literary narrative text or a 500-word summary of the academic essay "Representations of the 'Self' and the 'Other' in Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature" by Birgitt Flohr which is on pages 54-59 of the manual) we did an animated reading followed by summary writing exercises with James Thurber's short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty".
Example summary below: 

In James Thurber's short story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, first published in The New Yorker magazine on 18 March 1939 James Thurber tells the story of Walter Mitty. Thurber humorously presents the protagonist, Walter Mitty as, a nondescript, inept and weak-minded character, who fantasizes about himself as a hero while he is hen-pecked by his overbearing, critical wife as he does mundane tasks. The events occur while Mrs. Mitty is getting her hair done and Mitty has to run errands for her before going to meet her at the local hotel, their agreed meeting point. The tone of the story is quite humorous, even of Mitty shows himself to be inept while performing the smallest tasks like parking the car or remembering what he needs to buy. 

This is the type of model to follow for the evaluated exercise.

For Weds class students must read the first page of Flohr's essay.