3.3: In a Grove-- Summary Assignment
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85 points
Rationale:
Summary is an essential skill for all academic writing. In order to position your writing in relation to other writing and research, you must be able to effectively comprehend and summarize another’s ideas. This first formal assignment is meant to sharpen your skills of annotating texts for identifying and comprehending main ideas, as well as summarizing the author’s thoughts.
In addition to practicing this essential skill, we will also be learning about audience and purpose, as well as how summary is a building block for writing that you will do in this course and beyond.
Your completion of this assignment will demonstrate your fulfillment of the following English 101 course learning outcomes:
- Engage in a recursive process of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading
- Engage in a reflective process of evaluating their own drafts and those of others
- Employ a voice, style, and tone appropriate to the topic selected and the rhetorical situation
- Establish a clear framework of essay and paragraph organization appropriate to the writing task and the thesis
- Employ rhetorical strategies consistent with the purpose of the writing task
- Revise work to enhance coherence and clarity while communicating with relevant discourse communities
- Summarize, analyze, and evaluate the arguments, counterarguments, and evidence in the writing of others
Assignment:
For this paper, you will summarize the short story “In a Grove” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. We will read and annotate the short story together and discuss the themes. After we have annotated, you will individually write a summary (in between 250-300 words) that covers the main points of the short story.
Audience:
The audience for this summary is a person who is not familiar with the short story. This means you will need to provide all essential information about the text so that the audience will understand what you are summarizing without having read the text.
Purpose:
The goal of a summary is to highlight and explain the main ideas or topics of a text in our own words. Summary is not argument or analysis; therefore, you should not add your thoughts or responses about the text to the writing assignment.
Writing Process Assignment and Point Values:
Annotations activity—10 pts
Final Draft—75 pts
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A-Range Paper |
B-Range Paper |
C-Range Paper |
D-F Range Paper |
No Credit |
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Content Development (45 pts) Score/Comments: |
Introduces topic in first sentence. Thesis statement is clear, detailed, and includes all supporting details. Each supporting detail sufficiently contributes to the development of the thesis. Includes thoughtful, thorough explanation of main ideas. |
Introduces topic in first sentence. Thesis statement is clear, but may lack detail. Most supporting details sufficiently contribute to the development of the thesis. Includes some explanation of main ideas. |
Introduces topic at some point in the paper. Thesis statement is present, but vague and may omit key items developed in essay. Some supporting details sufficiently contribute to development of thesis. Includes few/brief moments of explanation of main ideas. |
May fail to introduce topic. Thesis statement is not present, or difficult to identify or comprehend. Most supporting details do not contribute materially to development of thesis. Includes hardly any moments of explanation of main ideas. |
Submitted assignment is not a summary, or summarizes an inappropriate document |
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Organization (20 pts) Score/Comments: |
Clear introduction sentence, supporting details organized in a clear manner with transitions, concluding statement. |
Introduction sentence, supporting details mostly organized in a clear manner, concluding statement. |
Sentences throughout may appear out of place or are extraneous to argument. |
Unclear organizational pattern. |
No detectable organizational pattern. |
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Spelling/ Grammar /MLA Format (10 pts) Score/Comments: |
Almost entirely free of spelling/grammar errors. Correct formatting. |
Some minor spelling/grammar errors. Minor formatting issues. |
Several spelling/grammar errors throughout. Generally incorrect formatting. |
Several spelling/grammar errors throughout, inhibiting comprehension. Incorrect formatting. |
No attempt at MLA formatting detected. |