English Paper

For your first summary you should summarize pages 15-23 in Pond Life (“Temperature Layering” through “Food Pyramids”). In writing your summaries cultivate an impersonal tone; avoid all personal pronouns and personal opinions; just give the facts and most important claims. The only quotations you may use are words and phrases that are “terms of art,” that is, words or phrases that would be difficult to express using other terms, such as “fall overturn.” If you use any other quotations, I will require you to rewrite this assignment because the purpose of this assignment is to learn how to communicate information in your own words. I have provided you with two discussions of summary writing, one from The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook and the other from The Bedford Handbook. The first discussion includes an example of a summary. This writing assignment should be between 700 and 800 words and double spaced. MLA FORMAT. NO PLAGIARISM TOLERATED. DUE AT 6 AM (eastern)