These Reading Summaries, in my opinion, served mainly as an auxiliary to the RWDs, in that, whereas the RWDs focused mainly on extracting the key point from the assigned reading, the Reading Summaries were meant to rephrase the main argument and the evidence the author used to support it. In this way, after analyzing a text with both an RWD and a Reading Summary, the reader can have a detailed understanding of what the author meant to say just at a glance. What I found to be most interesting about the Reading Summaries is that they were meant to serve as practice for the essay assignment, so that we could have practice in locating the true intent of the author. Since I wrote my essay on a paper on which I had already written a Reading Summary, this made the process much easier. As for how this project related to the “What Writing Is” graphic, I would say that it most closely relates to the category of the rhetorical strategy of analyzing, designing, and communicating, since the work in question is not my own, but I have to take apart the key components and rearrange them into a comprehensible summary.
