Short english 1301 assignment (one-paragraph): read details below
This assignment is a one-paragraph summary of the Jeff Jacoby’s “Bring Back Flogging” (which is linked to just below). 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; work hard at recreating the argument concisely yet comprehensively in your own words.
Link mentioned above is at: http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6758/bring-back-flogging
Requirements:
Formatted to MLA Guidelines
One Paragraph
200-250 words long (or 20-25% of the sources length)
Saved and posted as a DOC or DOCX file
Begin with a sentence that identifies
the author by full name, the author’s credentials, the name of the article/speech, the name of the publication, and the year the source was published.
In every sentence following the first sentence, use attributive tags to attribute the ideas to the author:
use the author’s last name or he/she
and use phrases such as “according to” and precise signal verbs.
Use transitions and other signposts to show the relationship between the ideas, capturing the structure and flow of the source’s ideas.
Use quotations sparingly, if at all.
Represent the source’s ideas accurately, fairly, objectively, and comprehensively yet concisely.