ASSIGNMENT: Write formal summaries of articles from professional journals about two of the works listed below. You must choose one Hawthorne piece AND one Poe piece. You will find a formal critique written on each of the pieces you select. Each summary should be approximately TWO FULL pages in length–typewritten, 12-point type, Arial or Times New Roman, and double spaced. (2 pages plus one line on the third page means the 2 pages are full.)
KEEP IN MIND: A formal summary is NOT saying that you agree or disagree with what is written. It is only summarizing what is written. Also, it is not giving the plot to the story but only what the actual article states.
SUGGESTION: It would be strategic to make one of the two summaries over the story your group is presenting. This will help you gather more information about your story, as well as become familiar with what critics are saying about it. This information can help you with your group presentations.
“The Minister’s Black Veil” (pp.636-645)
Using this website: https://nerd.wwnorton.com/nerd/180310/r/goto/cfi/1054!/
Use MLA Style Manual for citations and internal notes for direct quotations within the summary. Give the citation at the beginning of each summary (at the top of the page).
CAUTION: ALTHOUGH YOU ARE REQUIRED TO READ THE LITERARY WORKS BEFORE READING THE CRITIQUES, YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS NOT TO SUMMARIZE THE LITERARY WORKS. RATHER, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO WRITE FORMAL SUMMARIES OF THE CRITIQUES THAT WERE WRITTEN ABOUT THE LITERARY WORKS.
Follow the directions below:
Summaries of Critical Articles.
l. Write a bibliographic entry for the article at the top of the page on which your summary is written. See MLA Style Manual for the appropriate format for a bibliographic entry.
2. Begin your summary by identifying the author and title of the article. Also, include in parentheses the date (or month, or what is available) of publication. For example: In an article titled “Symbolism in Toni Morrison’s Jazz” (English Journal, Fall, 1992), Mary Collins states. . . . (Make a generalization stating the main point or thesis of the article.)
3. Express the main points and key supporting details of each paragraph in you own words. Do not simply rearrange the words. Introduce major points with the source’s name, using present tense verbs.
4. Quote from the article only to illustrate key points. Limit your quotations to one quote per paragraph.
a. Remember if you use three or more consecutive words of the author’s, you must enclose those words in quotation marks, or you are guilty of plagiarism. Remember that a comma or period (if needed) goes inside the closing quotation mark.
b. Remember to introduce quotes and important points with the author’s name.
c. Remember to use ellipsis dots when you omit words in a quote. Use three spaced periods to indicate an omission within a quote and four spaced periods with no space before the first period to indicate an omission at the end of a sentence.
d. Remember at the end of the quote to show the page number from which the quote was taken. The period goes outside the parentheses.
5. Devote the same percentage of space and emphasis to ideas as the author does.
6. Use the same order for presenting the ideas as the author does.