Jigsaw Activity: Writing A Brief

Jigsaw Activity: Writing a “Brief”

The purpose of writing these briefs is to summarize and review the main points of a longer document for a reader who has not read the document. Identify and distill key points, keeping in mind that your audience will need to know all of the important information in the document without reading the actual document. Include the following elements:

1. Overview:

What is the chapter/article about? What is the central point the author is trying to communicate? Try to sum this up in your own words in a few sentences.

The article describes the key construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction and/or analysis of a narrative between a novice interviewer in graduate school and his classmate in his psychology class. The central point that the author is trying to describe emphasizes the narrative analysis, narrative research and the hermeneutic used to interpret the content. The author references key theorist in the field but gives narrative research credit to the philosophical anthropologist Mikhail Bakhtin, whose ideas of dialogue are discussed in a novel transformation.

2. Purpose:

What is the author’s aim in writing this? Does the author suggest a way of framing an issue or a course of action? Try to summarize this in

Both the interviewer and the interviewee are taking the same psychology class. The narrative is characterized as a tragedy and a romance and written as a novel. The story describes a woman with an identity surrounded by a promising singing career. The current project is a life narrative about a female, graduate student named Teresa. Teresa life was defined as an upcoming opera singer who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. After having surgery, her life, career, and family was transformed. Through these trials, Teresa shifts focus on singing, challenges her intellect, and finds healing through the transformation. She is