Summary :) | English homework help

Length:  2 pages typed, double-spaced, one inch margins, 12 pt Times New Roman or similar font.

Citations: MLA in-text citation method

Outside Sources: None, use only the assigned reading and class discussion.

The paper is semester is a Jon Gertner’s “The Futile Pursuit of Happiness” 

There are four basic writing skills fundamental to the assignment:

 thesis and its chief supporting evidence and arguments.

accurately and effectively introduce and incorporate

quotations and paraphrasing. You must be careful not to let any direct language—phrases or sentences—slip into your summary without being quoted.

Along those lines, your summary should remind your reader from time to time, that these are not your ideas or arguments, but those of the author of whatever essay you summarize. Use attributive tags).

4.) Your summary should represent, in miniature, the general shape and argumentative logic of the original and should be readable as a coherent and rationally structured essay itself (with an introduction/first sentence that introduces the essay you summarize and its central thesis, a body that explains the supporting evidence, and a conclusion. AVOID THE “LAUNDRY LIST” error. A summary is much more than a random listing of things taken from the original source.

 MOTION the professors ( Gilbert – loewntein kahnemann wilson )

iclude ( impact bias – empathy gap – psychological immune system)  

COVER THE ARTICAL’s CONCLUSION 

 a Works Cited page is required. It will have only one source cited