3-2 Written Response: Summaries, Quotes, and Paraphrases

Overview

In this assignment, you will continue working with the text you chose for the project by summarizing, quoting, paraphrasing, and using in-text citations. Specifically, this assignment will prepare you to summarize details of the text that are relevant to the core idea and support your analysis of the core idea with quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text. You will continue to develop these skills in future assignments as you prepare to complete your project.

Directions

For this assignment, you will first write a brief summary of the text. Next, you will choose a sentence from the text and incorporate it as a quote in an originally crafted sentence of your own. Then, you will take the same sentence and incorporate it as a paraphrase. This assignment will help you practice summarizing information and also integrating a direct quote and a paraphrase, in the same way you will integrate these into your project.

Keep in mind that these skills are intended to build on your own writing, in that you will use a summary, quote, or paraphrase to support a point of analysis you make about the text in your project. For this week, however, just focus on practicing summarizing, quoting, and paraphrasing. Ensure you use in-text citations throughout the assignment. You are encouraged to review the Module Guide for information about how to frame a quote or paraphrase within your own writing. Complete this assignment using the template linked in the What to Submit section.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

1. Summary: Write a brief summary of the text chosen for the project. Focus on providing a high-level overview of the information that the author shares, as you understand it.
   1. Your summary should be three or four sentences long.
2. Quote: Incorporate one sentence directly from the text as a quote in an original sentence.
3. Paraphrase: Incorporate a sentence from the text as a paraphrase in an original sentence that restates the author’s ideas clearly and communicates an interpretation of the author’s intended meaning.
   1. Focus on restating the author’s ideas in your own words. What do you think the author is trying to say in this quote? Share this in the paraphrase.
4. In-Text Citations: Use in-text citations throughout the assignment to properly cite the writer’s ideas according to APA or MLA standards.
   1. Use either APA or MLA standards to properly cite the writer’s ideas in your summary as well as in the sentences where you quoted and paraphrased the writer’s work.