Poetry as lifesaver" 1.

You'll need to read either Rob Baker article "Jimmy Santiago Baca: Poetry as lifesaver" 1. Introduce your summary like this: a. In [name the text—use quotation marks or italics, as appropriate], [full name of the writer] + b. [descriptive verb like suggests, claims, comments, concludes, illustrates, insists, observes, points out, argues, believes, thinks, writes, says, etc.] + c. the overall point of the text. 2. Summarize the text using your own. 3. Write in 3rd person point of view. No "I" or "you." 4. make the summary for an audience who has not read the text you're summarizing. Start a new paragraph for your response as signal to yourself and your audience that the summary portion is over. The response portion should be written in 1st person in no less than hundred and fifty words. 1. How do I feel about the writer's overall point? 2. What does this text teach me about writing/communicating/reading? 3. How is this text similar or different than what I've learned/experienced/read previously in regard to writing/communicating/reading? Acknowledgment of each quotation, paraphrase, or summary in the text you are writing. These are often called "In-Text Citations