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Question: Read the excerpt from Hidden Figures. Shetterly describes what happened when Katherine Goble asked if she could attend editorial meetings with the engineers she worked with. "Is there a law against it?” Katherine retorted. There wasn’t, in fact. There were laws telling her where she might answer nature’s call—a law she ignored at Langley—and which fountain to drink from. There were laws restricting her ability to apply for a credit card in her own name, because she was a woman. But no law applied to the editorial meeting. It wasn't personal: it was just the way things had always been done, they told her. Read Sahil’s summary of the excerpt. Katherine Goble asked if it was against the law for her to attend the meetings. While there were many unjust laws that restricted her freedom, she was only being excluded from the meetings because the engineers did not want to change their procedures. Which summarizing mistake does Sahil make? He includes a personal viewpoint. He includes a minor detail. He paraphrases instead of summarizing. He does not include the main idea.
He does not include the main idea. Katherine asking if it is against the law for her to attend the meetings and her exclusion based on longstanding procedures are points Sahil mentions, but he misses the central idea that there were no laws prohibiting her attendance. Instead of focusing on the crucial element—that the restrictions she faced were based on tradition rather than law—he emphasizes the engineers' reluctance to change procedures without clearly stating why. This weakens the summary by not clearly presenting the main idea.
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