4. ESSENCE (Writing, Feedback, Collaboration)
Description: In this challenging protocol, students write several summaries of a lecture, repeatedly reducing the length.
Application: Use this interactive lecture protocol with factual, conceptual, or informational content that can be effectively summarized.
Process: Ask students to listen carefully to the presentation (or video, etc.), taking notes. Create teams of three or four. After the lecture, ask teams to prepare a 32-word summary of the lecture. Listen to the summaries from different teams and select the best one. Ask teams to then rewrite the summary in exactly 16 words, retaining the key ideas and borrowing thoughts and words from other teams’ earlier summaries. Repeat the process, asking teams to successively reduce the length of the summary to eight, four, and two words. Finally, ask each student to write an individual summary of appropriate length and turn in.
Description: In this challenging protocol, students write several summaries of a lecture, repeatedly reducing the length.
Application: Use this interactive lecture protocol with factual, conceptual, or informational content that can be effectively summarized.
Process: Ask students to listen carefully to the presentation (or video, etc.), taking notes. Create teams of three or four. After the lecture, ask teams to prepare a 32-word summary of the lecture. Listen to the summaries from different teams and select the best one. Ask teams to then rewrite the summary in exactly 16 words, retaining the key ideas and borrowing thoughts and words from other teams’ earlier summaries. Repeat the process, asking teams to successively reduce the length of the summary to eight, four, and two words. Finally, ask each student to write an individual summary of appropriate length and turn in.
Reference and/or for more information:
4. Essence
http://www.leo.stcloudstate.edu/style/wordiness.html
4. Essence
http://www.leo.stcloudstate.edu/style/wordiness.html