Summarize and evaluate with 750-1000 words
Position Paper (use Prospectus Paper file as base)
This paper will combine summaries and evaluations of at least five representative sources and provide background. Three of these must be scholar reviewed.
Your purpose will be to present this review so that your audience will have a clear sense of the field of your topic and of your authority as its interpreter. Part of your authority will come as a result of your properly using and acknowledging your sources – in accord with MLA format.
To summarize a source, read and reread the article or book carefully, annotating as you go. Then outline the selection in order to be sure that you have identified all the main ideas. The outline should then enable you to write a coherent summary, which should be in your own words (though you might quote some key terms or phrases) and should not include any examples or illustrations.
Evaluations generally include the following basic features:
•a well-defined subject (in this case, your summary of the source will define the subject);
•a clear and well-balanced judgment of the subject;
•a convincing argument for the judgment you have made, which might include some comparisons between the subject and other things of the same kind
•how you intend to use the source
