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Abraham Maslow suggested that our behaviors and motivations can be explained by our status of needs - if we are lacking in certain areas, we will consciously and unconsciously focus our energies into

Summary -2019

Summary Essay: This assignment includes two parts: reading an article, writing a summary.

See Chapter 18 in Evergreen for more information on writing a summary.

Basic Expectations: 1. Read and annotate article

2. Essay – Minimum 2 pages double-spaced, maximum 3 pages, 11pt. Times New Roman

3. Complete self-graded portion of rubric; total the points for both the essay and timeline

Topic: The article in Evergreen page 597-598 by Leonard Pitts “A Risk-Free Life”

Audience: Your instructor and your class peers, others of your choosing

Genre: Reading: Newspaper article

Writing: Summary

Format: MLA or APA format --whichever one you are most familiar. See pages 283-286 in Evergreen for a quick reference to both styles.

(ex. APA/MLA) Example in-text MLA: (Pitts 597).

Example in-text APA: (Pitts, 2002)

Action: Take notes while you read the article – annotating your questions, main ideas, vocabulary questions, author’s purpose or argument.


Just for fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi8RnDjELdc this video shows you a quick way to identify the main points of a story using the “Somebody Wanted But So Then” strategy.


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1. Essay description and details: For this essay, you will write to your audience using a formal tone about the article assigned. Be careful not to add your opinions about the topic, just summarize the article. In other words, the reader will know the article and its primary purpose without having to read it.

  1. Your writing style:

    1. Write with a formal style and tone -- like you would perform an academic report to your classmates. Be sure it is organized and easy for the reader to follow. Read it aloud to test this out! Better yet, read it aloud to someone else and get a peer review.

  2. Include all the things we have learned so far:

    1. Title

    2. Intro, Conclusion, Title

    3. Summary, Quotes, Plagiarism

    4. Subject/Verb agreement, Sentence Structure, Commas

  3. MLA or APA Format

    1. Include in-text citations for every reference to information from the article

    2. Include a works cited (MLA) or reference page (APA)

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