The summary was somewhat difficult for me to write. When I write, I typically over write and add too much extra “fluff”; therefore, when I was writing the summary, I had to be more concise. Because I was trying to be more to the point in my writing, I felt that it was too choppy when I read it out loud. After some revisions, I felt that it was not too choppy, but still concise.
When my peers read my summary, they gave me helpful feedback regarding grammar and vocabulary. I tend to overuse commas, and they helped me fix that. They also aided me in changing some weak vocabulary words that may have been too casual for the assignment.
The hardest part of the assignment was making sure I accurately summarized the article without basically reciting exactly what it said. I also struggled with deciding which style to write the summary in. Since I am a journalism major, I will primarily use AP style; however I felt that I did not have enough knowledge on how to write in AP, so I chose MLA instead because I had prior experience with it.
I think in future papers, I need to follow an actual process more. With this summary, I just wrote, read it aloud, and then revised in the same doc. Next time I think it would be better to create a new document for revisions so I can see what I changed. With how user friendly Google Docs is, I think I could be quite organized with my writing process.
In my final product, I felt confident that I accurately describes the events from a baseball game to someone who may have never seen a baseball game before. I think I used an appropriate mixture of quotes and summarization. Obviously, as this assignment was a summary, I did not use as many quotes as I did my own summarization.