What is Shower Sentence?
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A term derived from the graduate working group of a professor at a research-one university in Southern California. A shower sentence refers to the "take-home" message of a text. A good shower sentence is characterized by one's ability to easily recall the main point of an article or other piece of literature--so good that even when waking up and barely conscious in the shower, one is able to remember the main point clearly.
<Students reading Legacies by Portes and Rumbaut>
Teacher: What is the shower sentence of Legacies?
Students: The shower sentence is that the assimilation trajectory of immigrants and their children is directly related to the immigrant groups' mode of entry into the U.S.
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