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MLA style AND ACCORDING TO THIS RUBRIC 

Summary Rubric

Summary Rubric

Criteria Ratings Pts

A Sophisticated summary • Correctly surmises the thesis and includes all of the major supporting points • Likely does not mirror the original order of the article • Contains no misreadings; represents the authors arguments fairly and accurately • Contains no opinion or information not mentioned in the article • Uses attributive tags and/or citations consistently and correctly • Summarizes using own words and adequate paraphrases • Quotes sparingly but when done, quotes are smoothly integrated • Smoothly transitions between ideas, differentiating between more important and less important points • Contains fluid sentence-level prose

5.0 pts
B Clear and coherent summary • Summary contains the thesis and most of the main points • Contains few, if any, misreadings of article • Attributive tags and/or citations are used somewhat consistently and correctly • Quotes may not be integrated but they are explained • Paraphrases adequately • Uses competent transitions • Contains clear and concise sentence-level prose with some lapses

5.0 pts
C Competent summary • Correctly, or nearly correctly, surmises the thesis and some of the main points. • Summary may place too much emphasis on one main point or focus too much on minor points • Summary contains some misreadings but these misreadings don’t extend to the thesis of the article • Summary may too closely follow the organization of the article itself (a blow-by-blow paraphrase is not a successful summary) • Attributive tags and/or citations are used, but are used inconsistently and/or incorrectly • Quotes are unexplained and there may be too many quotes • Paraphrases may come too close to original though much of the original sentence is changed • Transitions exist but may be inappropriate or confusing • Sentences are mostly correct (the occasional fragment or run on) but may be awkward

5.0 pts
D Inadequate summary • Misreads purpose/thesis of article; may invent too different a thesis for the article; may read so much into the article that it is somewhat unrecognizable • Personal opinion may exist throughout • Fails to use attributive tags and/or citations to indicate the information presented is the author’s and not the student’s • Quotes are mostly unexplained • Paraphrases are too close to original • Transitions may be nonexistent • Sentences contain many errors and boundary issues though they are readable

This summary does not name the title of the source in the first paragraph. 
Fails to use attributive tags and/or citations to indicate the information presented is the author’s and not the student’™s

5.0 pts
F Failing summary Exam may fail for any number of reasons: the writer responds to the ideas in the article rather than summarizes; the writer grossly misunderstands or misreads the article; the writer copies sentences without quoting or citing; sentences may be impossible to follow

5.0 pts
Total Points: 
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