Summative Activity — Overview
The following activities are required if you are completing this workshop for credit in a course you are taking. You have to earn at least 80 points total for the 8 questions in the summative activity in order to get credit for completing this workshop. If you do not earn 80 points on your first attempt, the librarian will send you suggestions for improvement and you can re-submit your activity to try to earn at least 80 points.
If you earn a passing score (80%) on the Summative Assessment the librarians will record your completion in case this workshop is a required assignment in a future class. We will be able to provide you with a record of your workshop completion.
Student will:
- detach the Summative activity sheets from the packet.
- indicate on the activity sheet if you were assigned by a professor to do the activity.
- complete the activity. Try to write as legibly as possible so the librarian can easily read what you have written.
- mail the completed activity to the library.
Librarian will:
- use the rubrics below to score and write feedback.
- record your completion.
Library/DL office will mail the student’s work and librarian feedback to the student.
Summative Activity – Questions
Your Name _______________________________________
Date you completed the activity _____________
Your Mailing Address:
Your Course Name (only if you are taking this workshop because it was assigned in a specific course)
_________________________________
Your Professor’s Name (only if you are taking this workshop because it was assigned by a specific professor)
_________________________________
Before you start, decide which citation style you will be using for this activity. Circle the citation style you have decided to use:
APA MLA
Notice about citation style: Along with this workshop, you received a guide to MLA citation. If you are using APA citation style in this activity and you would like to get the APA citation guide, please write to the library to request it.
You will need to use the citation guide to write citations in this activity. The citation rules were not covered in-depth in this workshop, but they are covered in the citation guides.
1. Read the article we provided in the Appendix section titled “Article to Use for the Summative Activity”. After you have read the article, choose a short quote from it that is related to this statement:
Protected areas, like national parks, can help animal species to survive climate change.
Follow the rules we covered in this workshop to properly format your quoted material. Review the section titled “Mark the Boundaries When Writing Your Draft” Scenario 2, for a refresher about formatting short quotations. Write your chosen quote with the boundaries marked by a lead-in and in-text citation and format the quote correctly.
- To mark the boundary of the quote, write a lead-in to the quote by mentioning the author and the author’s qualifications as well as anything else you want to say