english easy course

Assignment 13: Submitting first draft of Summary Essay on Research Project

Purpose

1. Get critical distance on content of sources surveyed in the research project. 2. Practice citation mechanics 3. Practice revising for PRE and Contract observance. 4. Experience intellectual growth during revision stage of the writing project.

Objectives

1. Submit an essay that integrates quotes from sources with your own thoughts.

2. Demonstrate correct use of citation mechanics (in-text and bibliography). 3. Demonstrate revision skills similar to those exhibited by the instructor. 4. Demonstrate deeper engagement with metaphors in your writing

Reading Assignments

• The assignment explained: Chapter 9: esp. p. 200 - 1. • How to cite sources in paragraphs: Chapter 10: p. 221 – 7. • Rationale for this research topic: Chapter 9: p. 195 - 7; 205 - 7.

WRITING ASSIGNMENT Treat this essay as an intellectual autobiography, as it is explained on p. 200 - 1, but when you describe your experiences do the following:

1. In your opening and closing paragraphs, use a metaphor deliberately to describe your experiences with this project.

2. Quote one or two sentences from the scholars you quoted in your research paper

3. Use at least one quotation from the chapter in the textbook on this research topic, especially pages 195 - 7; 205 - 7.

4. Explain how the information surprised you or changed the understanding that you had had about that topic.

5. Also, use taglines that have vivid verbs (this means that in your final draft, don’t use “According to,” or “Frye says”), but use taglines like, “Frye noted,” or Frye argued,” AND

6. Put the tagline in a different place for each quotation (as explained already on p. 225 - 6).

7. Then you will need a Works Cited page for those sources. 8. This essay is very similar to the summary essay that you wrote at the end of

the Reading chapter assignments, so you might want to take a look at that

essay to remind yourself how citations mechanics work, and avoid the citation errors you had with those essays.

Length: 700 to 900 words COMMENTS The essay gives you a chance to:

1) organize the thoughts you had about the research project as it went along and

2) tell me what you thought of the research project, its strengths and weaknesses.

WHAT TO SUBMIT

• First draft of summary essay • An assessment of its weaknesses and strengths (10 points) • Any questions or concerns you want me to address