Comparison and Contrast: Showing Similarities and Differences

Summary Quiz for “Dearly Disconnected”

Question 16.13

1. Read “Dearly Disconnected” and summarize the selection below. Be sure to put the summary in your own words and to avoid using the sentence structure of the reading selection. Remember that your summary should restate the author’s main idea (or thesis) and that it should include only the author’s most important supporting ideas. When you have completed your summary, “submit” your work.

Here is an example summary of this reading selection:

In “Dearly Disconnected,” Ian Frazier remembers the importance of the pay phone in his own life and his wistfulness about their disappearance in favor of the cell phone, which is more reliable, allows users to talk while moving, in restaurants—wherever. A Romantic, Frazier now thinks of the pay phone as a relic of the past to be remembered for the momentous personal events they helped foster.

Your summary will differ from this one in the way it is written, but it should include roughly the same information.