How to Summarize the Summary with a Short Summarization

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Now that we have turned our summaries in, all we can do is wait for the dreaded grade *cue dramatic music* when Dr. Kyburz hands it back to us. Rooting out all the analytical fluff and past/future tense descriptions was a very big chore to me. What was your biggest difficulty in creating your final draft?

Nevertheless, we must press on! Onward to something called a Microtheme. This semester I'm learning so many new words (mainly from organic chemistry), and spell correct says they're all wrong. I'm beginning to think its a conspiracy- all these higher-level classes, they get together at the start of each semester and make up words just to confuse students! This week's conspiracy, Microthemes, is a short and concise summary of an issue or debate with a major focus on your personal reason for being involved with it. Atleast from what I can tell, its a hybrid of an opinionated essay and a summary analysis of a social issue or debate.

I don't fully understand what a Microtheme is about or how it will be graded, so I thought this blog could serve as a little brainstorming/informing area where we help each other understand what a Microtheme is. I am, however, assuming that I'm not the only one who doesn't know what a Microtheme is- hopefully I'm not alone in this boat! Anyways, it seems like this will focus on our ability to: present different sides of a topic without bias, explain the importance of the topic, and logically defend the topic though inquiry rather than fact-citing. What about the rest of you? Please feel free to correct me anywhere I'm wrong in my assumptions of what a Microtheme is!