Keywords
student writing, teaching young adults, research summaries
Preview
The due date. That dreaded day when 50% of my students have worked their way through the writing process and are ready to turn in their essays ON TIME. They chose topics, researched, organized, wrote rough drafts, edited and revised repeatedly, peer-reviewed, more editing and more revising, cited their sources, formatted, and even applied the hanging indentation to their works cited page. And as the other 50% trickle in their late papers clearly lacking some of these important steps, my next responsibility begins: I start to read 175 essays. With my rubric ready to start assessing, I see a frustrating trend: the essays are full of summary. Simply regurgitating points on the plot chart does little to show an understanding of reading beyond events in the text.
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Susan E.
(2025)
"Moving Beyond Summary,"
The Utah English Journal: Vol. 53, Article 12.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/uej/vol53/iss1/12