Now that you’ve followed Alex step-by-step through his integrated reading and writing project, here is an integrated reading and writing project for you to complete. If you have trouble with any particular step, you can review Alex’s example in “Step-by-Step Guidance for Integrated Reading and Writing Projects” for help.
If you have ever studied a long chapter in a textbook, you know how difficult it is to remember everything in the chapter at test time. One method students use to learn the information in long chapters is to make lists of important terms, dates, definitions, and so on, and to memorize those elements. This is a good strategy for learning about the particular details in a text.
But what about the major themes and ideas? What if your instructor asks you to compare an idea at the beginning of the chapter with an idea at the end of the chapter?
For example, a chapter in an environmental science book may begin with a presentation of the water cycle the way water evaporates and eventually becomes rain, falling to the earth again. The same chapter may end with a discussion of the effects of global warming. An exam may ask students to explain the connections between the water cycle and global warming. To be able to explain the connections, you will need to have studied both particular details and the major ideas presented in the text.
To understand how the details connect to the major ideas in a text, you might find it helpful to write a summary. A summary is a shortened version of the source. It con-tains, in your own words, the main idea of the text its thesis statement -and the major supporting points that develop the thesis statement. A summary also includes some of the important supporting details used to develop the major supporting points. Because the purpose of a summary is to provide a brief, objective overview of a text, when you write a summary, resist the temptation to add your own views on the topic or text.
For this project, you will read a text carefully and write an accurate summary. The readings in this project will concern mindsets–the beliefs we have about ourselves and our abilities and their effects on our lives.
down below i will upload pictures from the textbook along with the article that needs to be read