Target Grammar Application Sheet (TGAS)


Filling out this sheet will help make visible your application of the target grammar for this assignment. For each item,
write three examples from your paper that show how you applied the target grammar. Include this sheet with your
final draft.

Assignment name: Summary

Target Grammar/Skills: Paraphrasing, collocations, signal phrases/reporting language

Examples Explanation/ details

Paraphrasing

I was able to combine two independent

“The first is that simple living -as an effort to re-
duce consumption and waste- paints human be-
ings as only being capable of harming the planet
and ignores humans’ capacities to restore it.”
sentences into one. The first sentence sig-
naled the point involving harm, while the
second was about humans being able to
restore the planet. Through this sentence,
I was able to nullify the need for the rest
of the paragraph, which gave examples of
how humans could restore the planet.

In this sentence I was able to address a

paragraph’s worth of historical examples,
“Jensen both opens and closes the piece by invok- which help illustrate an important point
ing the memory of past global crises to support without needing to actually mention the
his claim that what is required is a movement of specific examples. Rather, I wrote about
activists.” the purpose of the examples.
In this sentence I turned the phrase “…
confront and take down those systems…”
“…this would involve dismantling the system…” into “…dismantling the system…”, using
word choice to create a distance from the
author’s own words.
Collocations

Waste is often seen as a negative, so there

“…lessen waste creation…” were several collocations for creating less
waste. I used “reduce” a couple of times
in my summary, so instead of “…reduce
waste creation…” I wrote “…lessen waste
creation…”.
 I originally intended to write “…voting in
“…engaging in elections…” elections…” but chose “…engaging in
elections…” because Jensen includes more
political actions that can be taken during
elections other than just voting, actions
such as running for office.
Because I used the phrase“large corpora-
“…sizable corporations…” tions” a couple of times before, I simply
switched “large” out for “sizable”.
Signal phrases/ reporting language

The signal phrase “Jensen concludes…”

“…Jensen concludes that large agents of capital- was useful because I was able to refrain
ism -such as large corporations, agribusiness, and from using “Jensen claims…”. Not only
some government actors- are most responsible for that, but the “concludes” distinguishes
the aforementioned crises.” whatever follows as an important point
over others.
“Identifies” implies that Jensen picked-at a
“Specifically, Jensen identifies four flaws in the notion and based on this, was able to
logic of simple living.” make claims.

Like with “concludes”, the word “argues”

“Ultimately, Derrick Jensen argues that an indi- distinguishes whatever comes next as a
vidualist solution like simple living would be inef- very important point. This is better than
fective.” using “Jensen claims…” or “Jensen
says…”