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English 1130 – Summary Guidelines For this assignment, please read “Silence and the Notion of the Commons” (in The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose 327-332) by Ursula Franklin and summarize it. This assignment will comprise of two main steps. 1) Preliminary work: The first step will be to write a point-by-point outline of Franklin’s argument (print it out and bring it to class on the date assigned) and to complete the MLA citation exercise. Full completion (of both the outline and MLA exercise) will count for 1% of your final grade. 2) Summary: The second step will be to write the final summary individually and then submit a copy via Blackboard by the deadline. Students who are not comfortable using Blackboard are welcome to submit a paper copy to me instead. The final summary should be typed, double-spaced, and should be between 300 and 500 words long. In the strongest examples, the summary distills and connects the ideas that are most crucial and most relevant to the author’s argument and does so in language that might be read and understood by students in the class. Remember that your reader should be able to follow your writing regardless of whether or not they have read the primary material that it treats. The summary should begin with a bibliographic entry of the reading in MLA format, and then your summary should cite the Franklin text only. In other words, please do not use any outside (internet, etc.) sources. Finally, please double-space the summary, and no title page is necessary. Below is the bibliographic information of “Silence and the Notions of the Commons.” Note that MLA formatting can be found on page 144 of Little Seagull or in the free handout provided at the Douglas Library website: https://library.douglascollege.ca/guides/cite-sources/mla Title: Silence and the Notion of the Commons Author: Ursula Franklin Pages: 327-332 Title of Anthology: The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose Edition: Third Canadian Edition Editors: Laura Buzzard, Don LePan, Nora Ruddock, and Alexandria Stuart Place of Publication: Peterborough, ON Publisher: Broadview Press Date of Publication: 2017 Learning Outcomes: The summary bridges previous work focusing on writing paragraphs with upcoming work where you will be asked to more explicitly incorporate secondary sources and/or research into your own writing. Thus the summary should help you to “Paraphrase and summarize readings accurately and appropriately,” “Employ diction

and tone suitable to academic discourse in grammatically-correct writing,” and “Present papers and document sources according a recognized styles,” three learning goals outlined on the syllabus, but also to “Read source material actively and critically.” Evaluation: Each summary will be evaluated according to how clearly it relays the central argument of Franklin’s text and how she develops it. Each summary will thus be graded holistically, according to the following criteria: accurate and precise summary of Franklin’s argument that is rendered in clear and precise language. As I mentioned in class, a few short quotations should be integrated in your writing. Finally, I expect that the MLA bibliographic entry that fronts your summary will be correct. I would suggest that you have a look at the following checklist prior to submitting your work: My summary  is typed, double-spaced, and submitted on time  presents the full title and the author’s full name (first and last) in the first line  treats the entire text (does not stop summarizing 50% through)  presents the main ideas and gives a sense of how they are connected (throughline)  contains an MLA bibliographic entry and cites the original text when appropriate  is entirely my own work (and, if not, it acknowledges in writing/documentation

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