SSH 205 : REVIEW NOTES FOR SSH 205 Week 1 to 5.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 205
• Professor: Scott Clark

Document Summary

Debate or analysis: debates tend to organize info into a 0-sum game: either i"m right or you"re right, they aim for convincing rather than analyzing. Opinions: opinions are definitive; they stifle both debate and analysis, they tend to be generated by carefully pondered questions, but: what kind of pet would best suit my friend? . Ideas: an unexpected question; a puzzling observation; an anomaly you have noticed; the exploration of an implicit question. Summary: an abridged version of the text that highlights its main points. Summaries tend to give readers a good idea of what to expect in the work they are about to read. What are the ideas your text absolutely cannot do without: get rid of redundancy. Do not repeat yourself: decide what is the main idea of the text and lead with it in your topic sentence, do not editorialize! Although summaries rarely include citations, be sure to acknowledge them if you use them: be brief!