Summary essay
Your first writing assignment of the semester is a summary of the reading you selected and studied above in Step 2. The purpose of your summary is to capture a concise yet comprehensive picture of the author’s argument for your reader who is not familiar with the source. The length of the readings in the readings list above varies, so the word-count for your summaries will vary, also. For this assignment, compose a summary that is about 20-25% the length of the source.
