English 302: BB1
George Mason University

Summer 2009

 

Summary

This assignment asks you to summarize Clay Shirky's “Thinking the Unthinkable” in less than 250 words (one double-spaced page)

The audience for a summary would be those who have not read the original; perhaps they'll read the summary to decide if they need to consult the original (that's the purpose of a scholarly abstract). For this reason, the summary must make sense to someone who has not read Shirky's original text.

Although you will all summarize the same text, each summary will be slightly different; the act of summarizing is also an act of interpretation. You will need to decide which points to include and which to exclude for reasons of space. Whatever you decide, the summary must be accurate and as complete as possible given the word limitation.

 


 

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