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Part One: Summary

Now that you have received some feedback from your peers, revise and edit your summary for final submission. Your summary should:

  • Accurately convey the texts main ideas
  • Be around 250 words
  • Provide appropriate context and brief explanation of any key terms to
    show an awareness of audience (that is, assume that your reader has not
    read this text and knows nothing about it)
  • Focus on authorial action (what does the author do in the text?)
  • Demonstrate clarity and organization
  • be proofread, relatively free of grammatical and mechanical errors

Part Two: Reflection

After you have revised your summary, compose a short (150-300 words) reflection on the changes you made to your summary. What did you change, and why?