Summary Evaluation

o What was the most challenging part of writing the summary? What was the least challenging? Why?
o Did you get the grade you expected on this summary? Why or why not?
o Based upon my comments, the summary rubric and the concept handout, what do you think your strengths are?
o How will you improve for the next summary?

The most challenging part of the summary for me was to know how to use the transitions smoothly. I had trouble trying to find a good flow for my summary to not have it repetitive. Grabbing the things I wrote in my outline had to be altered and edited to make it fit and to make sense in my summary. The least challenging part of the summary was relating to it. It was an interesting topic to summarize because I can relate to it and I have experienced what Tan was talking about. I received the grade that I was anticipating. If I revised it thoroughly maybe I would of caught on to the changes that Susie wanted me to make and receive a slightly higher one, but overall I was satisfied with the grade I received. My strengths based on Susie's comments seemed to be the summarizing and paraphrasing portion. I seemed to capture Tan's ideas in my summary. I believe in this because of that connection I mentioned earlier, if I couldn't understand or relate to what Tan was writing about I wouldn't of been able to re-illistrate her ideas. On the next summary I will probably improve in taking the reading concept handouts and focusing on structuring my summary on the tips that they give. I feel if I focus more on the tips and format the Reading Concept Handouts inform me about then my summaries should be stronger.