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A Summary of Deborah Tannen's "Who Does the Talking Here?"

This summary outlines the different communication styles between genders that Deborah Tannen discusses in her article "Who Does the Talking Here?"
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Iva's feedback:

"Your summary is off to a good start: it is concise and objective, and it effectively uses direct quotations to highlight main ideas. However, to be stronger, it needs revisions to the introduction and body paragraphs as well as the addition of a conclusion. To start, in your introduction, make sure you are providing context. Currently, you have the article's title, methods, and findings but are missing the author (giver her name not her position) and a description of what she set out to do (i.e., what led her conduct her study? Where did she conduct it? With who?). Next, in your body paragraphs, you make claims but infrequently support them. For example, in the first body paragraph, you say that "statistical counts don't yield any major results" - what does this mean? Explain it. Similarly, in your last body paragraph, you mention "different language barriers between the roles of genders" but do not elaborate on what this means and how it is reaffirmed in Tannen's work. As for the missing conclusion, it hurts you because, without it, your summary ends abruptly. There is no tying together of Tannen's main findings and what they mean when looked at as a whole. Consequently, your summary feels incomplete. On a different note, make sure that your in-text citations come before, rather than after, the period of the sentence they're in. Then, after a final round of proofreading with a focus on ensuring that you have no sentence fragments or run-on sentences, your summary will be ready to submit!"

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