Course Learning Outcomes:

Analyze college-level texts to distinguish motivation, structure, and cohesiveness of argument.

· Articulate the main message in a piece of communication

· Outline the structure of a piece of communication

· Summarize a piece of communication

Description:

An effective summary demonstrates a student’s ability to provide a concise and accurate rephrasing of a text with enough information so that the reader can understand the main idea and purpose of the original text based on the summary.

Directions

· Review your lesson materials on summarizing.

· Using the annotation and paraphrasing skills we worked on in class, prepare a written summary of one the three essays posted on BB.

· Submit your word-processed summary in a Word document or PDF via Bb by next class.

Checklist

· First sentence introduces the author’s full name, year of publication, title of the text, and text’s main message or thesis

· Consistently uses the author’s last name throughout the summary to clearly give credit to the author’s ideas

· Incorporates reporting verbs to link ideas to the author

· Is entirely written in the student’s own words (paraphrased). Includes no more than one short (5 words) direct quotation from the text.

· Is approximately one quarter to one third the length of the original text.

· Does not include student opinions or interpretations

· Follows APA referencing (summary in-text citation, Reference citation).