Writing 2111F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Golf Cart, Gerund, Summer Term

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Writing proposals and reports: a few notes on excutive summaries, and final. *peer review of assignment #4 monday to thursday week 12. In this final brief set of notes, a few comments on the question of writing/revising. Take a look at the example ( rolling meadows golf club") contained in locker/findlay. It is very long, and contains a great deal of non-essential (from the reader"s perspective) information. Remember: in assignment 4 you are writing an informative executive summary" (see. Locker/findlay call it) the logical skeleton of the piece being summarized: its thesis (usually, recommendation[s]) and the proof (reasons) supporting that thesis. So, if we look more closely at the rolling meadows summary, we can begin to try to figure out what is essential, and what isn"t. Take a look at the exercise first yourself, write down some comments, and then go to the next pages of these notes and see whether your responses parallel those below.

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