Memo

Date: Jan 6, 2014

To: Senior English Students

From: Mr. Schmidt

Re: Intro to summary writing

In college you will be asked to write summaries.  To prepare you for this, we will be writing a number of summaries this quarter. Our first summaries will focus on a group of skateboarders from southern California. 

The technical aspects of writing a summary will be discussed in a handout.  

The formal aspects of this first summary require the following elements:

1. MLA format
2. Proper use of attribution tags
3. Correctly written
4. Summary is written in present tense
5. At least ¾  of a page in length
6. Include a  correctly done Works Cited entry for an on-line newspaper article
6. Due tomorrow to turnitin.com by the beginning of class. (ERWC 8:59 a.m.).