summary.

Length: 175 to 250 words and a works cited entry First draft due: Wednesday, Feb. 4

Total Points: 100 points Final draft due: Friday, Feb. 6

Assignment

Write a coherent, unified, accurate, and objective summary of “The Pay is Too Damn Low” in the coursepack. Your audience, of course, includes your classmates and me. However, because summaries are usually written to let people know about information with which they may not be familiar, think of your audience as also including people who have not read this excerpt. Your summary should include key points made by the author but exclude minor details. Although you will be summarizing most of the excerpt, you may need to paraphrase specific brief passages or quote significant words and phrases. Avoid quoting longer passages from the source. Nonetheless, if quoting a sentence would greatly enhance your paper, you may do so—but only once.

Organization

In the first sentence or two, introduce the author of the source, the title of the source, and the author’s thesis. Remember that the thesis should help the reader predict the content of the rest of the summary. The body and conclusion of the summary are thus determined to a great extent by its thesis.

In-Text Citation and Works-Cited Entry

Use a page number for anything you quote. Also place a page number at the end of material summarized from a particular page. If, for example, you have summarized material from page 3 in three sentences, put the page number after the third sentence. Include a works-cited entry for the source you summarized. For this assignment, the works-cited page does not have to be on a separate page.

Submission Requirements

Staple the following to the back of your paper, in the order specified:

· Previous drafts and peer-review sheets

· Preparatory work (function statements)

· This assignment sheet

Grading Criteria: Your paper will be graded according to the following criteria. Plagiarism will result in a failing grade for the paper and perhaps for the course as well.