The re-writing game: summarizing an argumentative text

Abstract

The paper presents activities specifically conceived to stimulate high school students in the first two years to read, summarize and comprehend argumentative texts. Specifically this article describes exercises on contrastive summaries which, synthesizing a text, express an “assent-or-dissent” position with regards to the thesis expressed in the source text. These exercises have proved to be effective for students to reflect on vocabulary and some grammatical and textual structures.

Keywords

• writing teaching
• summary
• argumentative writing
• modalisation
• upper-secondary school