Assignment of Article summary: Article: Callahan, D. (2004) The cheating culture: Why more Americans are doing wrong to get ahead. Orlando: Harcourt. Criterion Description Main Idea: Accurately conveys the Main Idea of the Article You have to accurately explained the main idea of the article in your own words. Support: Selects appropriate supporting ideas You have to choose the correct supporting ideas from the article to show how the author has made his/her claims and stated them in your own words. You have to provided clear statements of the authors ideas without providing excessive information from examples or evidence used by the author. Content: Provides sufficient and appropriate information for understanding You have to provide enough information from the article that a person who has not read it could understand the main point and the supporting points and evidence. No unnecessary information is provided and no necessary information is missing. Clarity of Writing: Logical Order of Ideas Your ideas follow a logical pattern throughout the paper. Information is provided where a reader would need it to understand the topic and information is not repeated unnecessarily. You have used transition words such as "further," "however," or "similarly" to show the relationship between ideas. Clarity of Writing: Paragraph Structure You have to compose clear paragraphs with topic sentences that state the main idea of the paragraphs followed by sentences that relate only to the topic introduced in the topic sentences. Clarity of Writing: Word Choice You have to choose words that are appropriate and make sense for the topic you are writing about. Few or no words are misused or are too informal for the assignment. Mechanics: Sentence Structure You have to use correct sentence structure throughout, with correct subject-verb placement, and minimal errors in use of modifiers and transition words. Mechanics: Grammatical Errors You must have minimal errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Citations: Signal Phrase You have to include a correct APA signal phrase with the author's last name and publication date. Citations: In-text Citations You have to include a correct APA-style parenthetical citation at the end of the summary. You have to include citations with author's last name, date and page number for any quotations taken word for word from the article. All quotations are also correctly indicated with quotation marks. Citations: References You have to include a correct APA-style References citation at the end of the paper. Correct citations include all required information and are formatted correctly with a hanging indent.

Assignment of Article summary: Article: Callahan, D. (2004) The cheating culture: Why more Americans are doing wrong to get ahead. Orlando: Harcourt. Criterion Description Main Idea: Accurately conveys the Main Idea of the Article You have to accurately explained the main idea of the article in your own words. Support: Selects appropriate supporting ideas You have to choose the correct supporting ideas from the article to show how the author has made his/her claims and stated them in your own words. You have to provided clear statements of the authors ideas without providing excessive information from examples or evidence used by the author. Content: Provides sufficient and appropriate information for understanding You have to provide enough information from the article that a person who has not read it could understand the main point and the supporting points and evidence. No unnecessary information is provided and no necessary information is missing. Clarity of Writing: Logical Order of Ideas Your ideas follow a logical pattern throughout the paper. Information is provided where a reader would need it to understand the topic and information is not repeated unnecessarily. You have used transition words such as "further," "however," or "similarly" to show the relationship between ideas. Clarity of Writing: Paragraph Structure You have to compose clear paragraphs with topic sentences that state the main idea of the paragraphs followed by sentences that relate only to the topic introduced in the topic sentences. Clarity of Writing: Word Choice You have to choose words that are appropriate and make sense for the topic you are writing about. Few or no words are misused or are too informal for the assignment. Mechanics: Sentence Structure You have to use correct sentence structure throughout, with correct subject-verb placement, and minimal errors in use of modifiers and transition words. Mechanics: Grammatical Errors You must have minimal errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Citations: Signal Phrase You have to include a correct APA signal phrase with the author's last name and publication date. Citations: In-text Citations You have to include a correct APA-style parenthetical citation at the end of the summary. You have to include citations with author's last name, date and page number for any quotations taken word for word from the article. All quotations are also correctly indicated with quotation marks. Citations: References You have to include a correct APA-style References citation at the end of the paper. Correct citations include all required information and are formatted correctly with a hanging indent.