Title: uses own title, not the article's title
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Form: includes title,
author, and periodical
in the body in MLA format
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Topic Sentence: states
the controlling idea
of article in the first sentence
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Main Idea: displays all of the main ideas of the article
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Content: answers who,
what, when, where --
no extra information
Good Average Poor
Organization: follows
sequence of article
and uses transitions
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Conclusion: sums up the
ideas included
in the summary
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Length: matches the assigned length
Good Average Poor
Grammar: uses a variety of sentence patterns
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Punctuation: has correct, spelling, capitalization, commas and periods
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