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Assignment Introduction
The ability to write a clear and concise summary in your own words is an important skill for success in this class and throughout your college career. This semester, you will be expected to incorporate summaries into your papers in order to respond to another author’s argument or to support your own argument with outside information. However, while the basic concept of summarizing a text may sound quite simple, it is actually a process that involves closely reading and annotating the text, fully understanding a complicated argument in its entirety, and the ability to properly paraphrase an author’s argument and ideas in your own words.
Assignment Objectives
Students will learn how to actively read a text in order to understand both an author’s overall argument and the main points or ideas the author uses to support and develop his or her main idea. Students will then demonstrate their thorough understanding of the text by producing a clear and concise summary that effectively incorporates paraphrases and quotations (while avoiding plagiarism, of course). Additionally, students will demonstrate that they can write in clear, properly-punctuated complete sentences, and students will also practice writing in complete paragraphs.
The Writing Assignment
Read, annotate, and outline Jason Stanley and Vesla Weaver’s article “Is the United States a ‘Racial Democracy’?” published in The New York Times (located on in this unit folder/module). Once you thoroughly understand the authors’ argument and main points, write a 350 – 500 word (1 or 2 paragraph) summary of the article’s main ideas and key supporting points. Be sure that your summary includes at least 2 quotations from the article (full or blended). Also, be sure to introduce your summary with a full signal phrase and to use short signal phrases throughout your summary to remind your readers that they are reading a summary. Lastly, be sure to proofread and edit your summary carefully.
Do note that there are two key points in the authors’ argument. First, they critique some issues they see in the criminal justice system, and then they address the impact these issues have on the democratic process. Be sure that your summary addresses both main ideas.
Unit Modules and Skills
Before you begin planning and drafting your summary, you are going to work through a few learning modules to help you acquire the skills you will need to produce an effective summary, and we will be using and adding to these skills throughout the semester. To successfully complete this assignment, you need to work through the following lessons and modules:
Unit 1, Module 1: Avoiding Plagiarism and Learning to Paraphrase: In this module, you will learn what constitutes plagiarism, how to identify it, and some strategies for a avoiding it.
Unit 1, Module 2: Quoting and Integrating Source: In this module, you will learn the various ways to properly use quotation marks in your writing and some strategies for incorporating outside sources into your work. You will also learn how to use signal phrases to introduce sources and quotations.
Unit 1, Module 3: Strategies for Writing an Effective Summary: In this module, we will look at some of the best practices when writing a summary (what to do and what to avoid).
Unit 1, Module 4: Drafting and Revising Your Summary: In this module, you will read and take notes on the assigned text, plan your summary, draft it, and then revise it. This module will also include a few prompts to help you plan and draft your summary. We will then discuss some strategies for proofreading and editing your written work. Finally, once you have drafted and revised your summary, you will submit it to the Turnitin Dropbox located at the end of this unit folder. See the course calendar for the due date.
Resources Covered in This Unit
• Chapter on Summary from the book They Say / I Say, located on Blackboard.
• Chapter 54: “Citing Sources; Avoiding Plagiarism” from The Bedford Handbook (10th).
• Chapter 55: “Integrating Sources” from The Bedford Handbook (10th).
• Chapter 37: “Quotation Marks” from The Bedford Handbook (10th).
• Purdue OWL webpages on quoting, paraphrasing, summary, and plagiarism. Links to
these webpages can be found in the “Purdue OWL Webpages on Quotation Marks, Paraphrasing, Summary” folder in the Additional Course Resources section of Blackboard.

By reading this article: “Is the United States a ‘Racial Democracy’?” By Jason Stanley and Vesla Weaver. This article was published on The New York Times website on January 12, 2014.

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Include a personal statement explaining the extenuating circumstances that prevented you from registering by the add deadline or paying your tuition fees by payment due date if applicable.

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You will select an issue to explore from Beggars in Spain, come up with a claim backed by reasoning and evidence, argue your issue from the fictional context of the novel using analogies from the real world to back up your reasoning, and provide a refutation. Your reasoning and evidence will come from the novel and from the real world (outside sources). BS needs to be a part of every step. Meaning, you will back up your claim with reasons from BS and your evidence will come from BS and outside sources (sometimes the evidence will be from a source, but other times it will come from your own cleverly written analogies and/or prior knowledge).  or more reasons and pieces of evidence to support your claim
3 or more refuting points and pieces of evidence to explain how the opposition falls short
6 or more academic sources are used and properly cited (quotations and paraphrases) in order to help develop your claim (at least 3 of which must be scholarly, meaning peer-reviewed or an academic journal)

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A full-length academic writing paper: 3-5 page literary analysis paper with a central thesis and strong supporting arguments (required). 

The poem to analyze is : Still I Rise by Maya Angelou 

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The subject matter of communication of entities regarding science

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Critically discuss Emile Durkheim’s work on suicide and reflect on its applicability to the trends and types of suicides in South Africa

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Cell phone usage while driving causes automobile wrecks.

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1. I've posted a short clip to the 1987 vampire movie, The Lost Boys.  It's in the Readings, Images, Media area.  Please view it and refer to it for the discussion question below.
   Write:  Here's today's discussion question.
   Yesterday you wrote about fears and desires in Victorian England and how they are reflected in the novel, Dracula.  As you know by now, a theme for this course is that some fears and desires stay the same and some change. After viewing the clip from The Lost Boys, what do you think about the vampires' interactions with Michael? What do they seem to want from him?  What does he seem to want from them?  What kind of a twist does this scene seem to put on the vampire story?
   As a bonus question--what was going on the U.S. in the 1980s, and how might this take on the vampire story have reflected that decade's concerns?
   As always, please write at least 300 words,
   
   https://bb.wpunj.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-2426105-dt-content-rid-18159418_1/courses/20202521228/The%20Lost%20Boys%20%283-10%29%20Movie%20CLIP%20-%20Maggots%2C%20Worms%20and%20Blood%20%281987%29%20HD.mp4

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1. List five highly credible sources that will help in understanding the scope of a current and unresolved issue (nursing shortage) in your field (nursing) and the audiences who have decision-making authority over it.
   2. After annotating the five sources, list the academic discipline (nursing-based) and a narrowed research question. 
   Below that, write a two paragraph synthesis essay where the following is addressed:
   •    Identify connections and differences seen among the sources you annotated
   •    Explain how they are responding to ideas you see in other articles. 
   •    Identify the leading candidate for your audience that emerged from your research. 
   •    Cite the sources accurately using APA. 
   3. End Page Reflection
   

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Your main objective in this assignment is to explain and assess Bregman’s argument for a Universal Basic Income. Your secondary objective is to comment on his wider argument about how social change occurs. The essay should be 4-6 pages in length, with a 12-point font, double-spaced. All citations to Bregman’s text should include a page number. You do not need to include additional sources, though you may choose to do so (including videos or other materials from our classes). Make sure to include a “works cited” with any additional sources.

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4-5 pages (land on page five)
Write the entire essay in third person. Write the body paragraphs (about the story) in the present tense.
Have a strong, arguable thesis
Have a topic sentence for body paragraphs
Use quotes from the primary text to prove your thesis
Use quotes from the secondary sources (3) as well
Incorporate the textual quotes into your sentence; for example
You need a works cited page for this essay.
Double-space, 12 pt. font, Times New Roman
MLA format
Word document or HTML

Primary Source(s)

Glaspell, Susan. “A Jury of Her Peers.”  Web. ELearning 30 June 2020.

Glaspell, Susan. Trifles. Web ELearning 30 June 2020.

Secondary Sources

Bendel-Simso, Mary M. “Twelve Good Men or Two Good Women: Concepts of Law and Justice in Susan Glaspell’s ‘A Jury of Her Peers.’” Studies in Short Fiction 36.3 (1999) 291+. Web. Literature    Resource Center. 30 June 2020.

Holstein, Suzy Clarkson. “Silent justice in a different key: Glaspell's Trifles." The Midwest Quarterly 44.3 (2003): 282+. Web. Literature Resource Center. 30 June 2020.

Marsh, Kelly A. “Dead Husbands and Other Girls’ Stuff: The Trifles in Legally Blonde.” Literature Film Quarterly 33.3 (2005): 201-206. Web. EBSCO. 30 June 2020.

Glaspell topics (choose one):

How does the setting contribute to the overall theme of the play? Include symbols that may be part of the setting.

The title of the play suggests the motive for the murder. How do the female characters use their attention to trifles to solve the mystery? Include in your essay their reason for keeping the information to themselves.

How do the men’s attitudes toward women and trifles affect their inability to discover the motive?


You may choose your own topic, but make sure you have a strong thesis that you can prove with textual evidence.


Due date July 26 by midnight.

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Describe your short- and long-term professional goals and how enrolling in the Penn State Master of Finance program would help you achieve them. It should also include your expectations of the Master of Finance program and the skills and strengths you would bring to the cohort. Upload your one-page statement to the online application.