Nontraditional forms of Assessment and response to student writing.

Guidelines for Writing a Summary Theoretical Paper Assignment: Choose one of the articles we have studied. Write a one-page summary of the author’s main idea and supporting details. This summary is intended to provide you with practice in a) summarizing writing material you read b) documenting journal articles in APA style. Guidelines: • Choose an article among the articles you have studied in the course. • The one-page summary must be 400 words in length approximately. The text should be in Times New Roman, 12-point font, 1.5 space, margins 3, 3, 2.5, 2.5. • Read the article carefully. Identify the author’s main purpose in writing the article. Figure out the structure of the article. What are the main sections? • Use the following links to help you writing the summary.
http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/AEP/EN104/summary.htm http://twp.duke.edu/uploads/media_items/summary-method-and-genre-handout.original.pdf https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/1/
• Document your summary in APA style. •
• The summary contains all of the key ideas in the original, including complete and accurate information about the source.
• The summary has a clear topic sentence and several sub-topic that explain key ideas from the – original. The summary is organized.
• All sentences paraphrase the original source completely. Good use of APA style. • All sentences are clear, accurate and complete
•The summary is free of errors