Q Who is on this journey, and what kind of journey is it? Click to view rubric before starting this assignment (click on the title and then "View Rubric" button) For your first formal assignment, you are summarizing, and critically responding to the story “A Journey” by Colm Toibin (the link is in your reading and assignment schedule in the course content folder, near the interview video of the author). We will be modeling the process by using other short stories and articles. FORMAT: This paper should: • Be 2-3 pages plus a Work Cited page. • Be double-spaced, with one-inch margins • Use 12 point font (Times New Roman). • Use MLA format for in-text citations and Works Cited page. • Be attached as an MS Word, doc, docx, pdf, or rtf file (DO NOT COPY/PASTE INTO THE SUBMISSION BOX) Before you submit it for a grade, make sure it also meets these guidelines for content and organization: • Hook your reader, and in second or third sentence, identify the author's name, story’s title in quotation marks, and assert your thesis. • Summarize the story using transitions and verbal clues. See the link in this folder to suggestions for transitions, which create fluidity, walking your reader through the ideas in the story. Use verbal cues, words that tie each sentence to the one that preceded it. • Keep reminding your reader that these are the writer’s ideas, not your ideas by inserting reminders every other sentence or so. • Critically respond to the story, using specific passages to support your response. Brainstorm ideas you take away from the story and discuss how any of us might connect to it. Who is on this journey? Can you reflect on, as our main character does, choices you have made that have altered your life’s journey? • Vary your word choice (Diction). If you keep writing "he says" or "he states," try a different introductory verb, like "He argues" or "He asserts." • Do not quote from the story when summarizing it, but do quote in your response. Be sure not to over-quote, however, or to make the quotes too long. • Make sure any quotes or paraphrase MLA format (All direct quotes should be put in quotation marks and introduced with signal phrases, introducing the quote for your reader.). • Use MLA format to cite the source in the text. • Use MLA format to create your Works Cited page, which should contain a single entry for the story. • Check out the rubric I'll use to grade it, and think about how well you think you'll do in each category.