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Anna Mills, Instructor
Summary Paper
Your assignment is to summarize the chapter “The big melt” in The Rough Guide to Climate Change
Due Dates: Rough Draft: Thursday, February 21 Final Draft: Tuesday, February 26
Checklist: Submit a folder with all of the following:
- Blank grade sheet
- Cover letter (see cover letter handout)
- Final draft
- Rough draft with in-class comments or a stamp from a Writing Lab session if you were absent or had no draft on peer review day
- Outline
Requirements/Grading Criteria:
- Accurate representation of the ideas in the chapter.
- Completeness. Coverage of the important points in the chapter, including the main ideas of each of the subsections. The suggested minimum to cover all the points is two pages.
- Conciseness. The summary paper must be a maximum of three pages, double-spaced in twelve-point font.
- Focused paragraphs. Each paragraph should have one topic sentence with related sub-points.
- A variety of transition words used to show the relationships between paragraphs and also between ideas within paragraphs.
- An introduction that mentions the author and title of the chapter summarized and includes a thesis which summarizes the chapter in one sentence.
- Your best Standard English, including grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and word choice.
- Of course, no plagiarism. No four words in a row should be the same as in the book.
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