February 12th, 2020 
Read “Lesson 5” (Cohesion and Coherence) and then draft an executive summary for each chapter.
The desired consequence of an executive summary is for an actual “executive” to use the summary information to decide:
what priority to assign the reading of the larger text,
what new and/or relevant information might be contained in the larger text,
whether (or not) to assign someone to prepare a more informative report on the larger text, and/or
1.adhere to the conventions of style which the discourse community (of the target audience) values,
2. refrain from introducing their personal opinions or comments into the summary,
3. refrain from using first-person pronouns in the summary,
4. keep the use of second-person pronouns to a minimum, and
provide a relatively-comprehensive synopsis, yet one tailored to the targeted audience.
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