Ask students to summarize and then critique sources to have students practice synthesizing, contextualizing, and communicating the ideas of source authors and the students own evaluation of these ideas.

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Action:

  • In oral or written form, ask students to both summarize and critique a source. Ask students to separate their summary and critique.

Reason:

  • Separating their summary and critique can help illustrate the differences in content and structure.
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