My subject happened to be a Communications major, and although English is not the only major to use summaries as a curriculum, they may not use it as much as we do for work. But as C, my subject, had expressed that she felt that she used the process of a summary more when she was a Freshman and Sophomore as opposed to her Junior and Senior year. This part of the transcript stuck out the most to me when I was transcribing it,
S: Yeah… so do you
understand what a professor is expecting from you when they ask you for a
summary?
C: Uh, yes, I mean
I feel like we have learned that so young and it has been embedded in our minds
since we were in preschool and just the basic so I feel like now in college
it’s almost second nature to ya know to pick a summary, to outline a summary or
to do a summary.
Although it should be second nature to us at this point and time in our lives, it isn't and a lot of people are unaware of what a professor is expecting from us in a summary because we automatically assume to do a recap of what the piece is about. So I think when interviewing my next two subjects I will ask them how they feel about this statement and how they think it can be fixed among others.
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