Lesson 9 | Combining Summaries
Assignment: 2Co 4:16–5:11
Now it's time to put all the pieces together, proposing, testing, and proving our interpretation of a passage.
“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.”¹
Instructions:
This assignment starts in the same place as the last, except without a paraphrase given its length.
Now it’s your turn to:
- Examine the brackets/relationships of the completed pieces.
- Place a dot note on the relationship label (or star) representing the primary point of each piece and change the color of each dot note to match the relationship.
- Write sub-point summaries for each piece.
- Combine summaries in new dot notes and complete the bracket as taught in this lesson, minimizing lower-level dot notes as you do.
Note: You need not write a summary for the final bracket, as we will learn the art of main point summaries in the next lesson.
Complete the bracket by writing dot note summaries at every level.
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