Summaries Read the following two passages. First, compose one…

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  Summaries Read the following two passages. First, compose one…

Summaries
Read the following two passages. First, compose one summary sentence for each paragraph. You have three options for determining an appropriate summary statement:

1) Copy an acceptable sentence from the paragraph; include appropriate citations.

2) Compose a comprehensive summary sentence using short key quoted phrases from the paragraphs; include appropriate citations.

3) Compose a comprehensive summary sentence in your own words; include appropriate citations.

Paraphrases
Then, compose first a literal paraphrase and then a free paraphrase for each of the two paragraphs (you will turn in four paragraphs).  Include appropriate citations in the free paraphrases.

Passage 1

I have no doubt that we will one day  end executions in America. It will come sooner if people like me who know the truth about executions do our work well and educate the public. It will come slowly if we do not. Because, finally, I know that it is not a question of  evil in Americans that prompts our citizens to support executions. It is, quite simply, that people don’t know the truth of what is going on. That is not by accident. The secrecy surrounding executions makes it possible for executions to continue. I am convinced that if executions were made public, the torture and violence would be unmasked, and we would be shamed into abolishing executions. We would be embarrassed at the brutalization of the crowds that would gather to watch a man or woman being killed. And we would be humiliated to know that visitors from other countries—Japan, Russia, Latin America, Europe—were watching us kill our own citizens—we, who take pride in  celebrating human rights as the model of democracy in the world. 

Helen Prejean, from Dead Man Walking 

Passage 2

In the storied old days, a person invented something in the attic or basement, got a patent on it, began building and selling it, and made a pile of money, all pretty much alone. Today’s inventor, with some isolated exceptions, is likely to be a salaried lab hand working in almost complete anonymity for a large corporation. If he or she gets any reward for building a better mousetrap, it may only be a smile and a pat on the back from the supervisor.  Those few individual inventors who do make it big—like Land, or Steve Wozniak of Apple Computer, or William Hewlett and David Packard of the company that bears their name—are all the more exceptional for being successful entrepreneurs and industrialists as well as inventors. 

Oliver E. Allen, from “The Power of Patents”