Chapter 4: Supporting Details
Lab Activity 19: Creating a Summary from Annotations
 
Objective:
To complete a summary after reading from annotations made during reading.

arrow.gifStep 1: Read the following passages from the college textbook, A Short Guide to Writing about Art, and then identify each sentence as the main idea, major supporting detail, or minor supporting detail.

      Passage C

negative (in which tones or colors are the opposite form what we normally see) made in a camera, none of these qualities is necessary. Photographs can be made without cameras (by exposing a light-sensitive material directly to light). They can be generated without negatives (color slides and Polaroid prints are familiar examples of what are known as direct positives). They also can be pieces of fabric, leather, glass, or metal. They can even be a still image on a computer screen. All that you need to have a photograph is a substance that changes its color or tone under the influence of light and that can subsequently be made insensitive to light so that it can be viewed.

—Adapted from Barnet, Sylvan. A Short Guide to Writing about Art, 7/e. Longman, 2003, 82.

11. "Photographs can be made without cameras (by exposing a light-sensitive material directly to light)."  

 
 
 
      12."They can be generated without negatives (color slides and Polaroid prints are familiar examples of what are known as direct positives)."  

 
 
 
      13. "They also can be pieces of fabric, leather, glass, or metal."  

 
 
 
      14. "They can even be a still image on a computer screen."  

 
 
 
      15. "All that you need to have a photograph is a substance that changes its color or tone under the influence of light and that can subsequently be made insensitive to light so that it can be viewed."  

 
 
 
     

 

     

 

     

 

     

 

     

 






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