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Article Summary Assignment

If you were to ask someone about his/her day, you would not expect a moment by moment, second by second recap of everything from waking up and going to the bathroom to the knife he/she selected before putting mayonnaise on a sandwich.  You would expect the important points with perhaps some attention to detail.  When you summarize, you are only pointing out the highlights, providing an outline in sentence form.  You do not use the exact same words nor should you even look at the source.  Keeping these things in mind:

1. . Review: Look back at your Causal Analysis essay (Essay #3). You are going to be using this as your baseline for this assignment as well as Essay #4.

3. Reflect: Now is the time to use the internet! You are going to be searching for TWOarticles. These articles should focus on the causes or the effects (whichever the topic you chose for Essay #3 was focused on). The purpose of these articles is to provide evidence to support what you already argued for or about in your Essay. Thus, consider what the source is before you take the next steps. Remember, you need to pick reliable and credible sources.

4. Research: When we are curious about something, we now simply default to Google, do a quick search, and more often than not, we look at the first or second result and base our opinion on what we see. However, as a college scholar, you should start being more critical and invest in information that is research-based. Therefore, there are several ways you can locate reliable, credible sources. I have provided this video    (double click that mp4) to help.

Use the library’s databases. http://dcc.libguides.com/az.php  I would suggest using EBSCOHost. Once you pick EBSCOHost, then select Academic Search Complete, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, and SocIndex to help narrow this down.

            Keep in mind that simply searching for articles based on the topic is going to be far too vast. You are doing this to enrich what you already said, so search for ___ causes obesity or ___ is a positive effect of television. If your body paragraphs have strong topic sentences, then this is what you can search for, and you will have evidence to prove each of the points you made in your essay. If you are feeling stuck, think of other ways to say something similar (for example, “children raising children” is similar to “teenage pregnancy” and this will yield different results).

5. Scan: Scan some articles. Decide which two appeal to you – not based on length, but based on content (subject matter). Now, put one aside (DON’T LOSE IT!).

-          Read one. Then, read it again. Perhaps on a sheet of paper using a pen or on a blank computer document, without looking at the article, jot down what you remember most about the article. This can be in the form of sentences or as a list.

-          Next, read the article for a third time while noticing what you have jotted down.  If there is something else you think may be important, take a mental note of it, but do not write it down word for word.

-          Now do the same thing for the second article.

6. Set up: Remember, this is an assignment, so you need to set up your document according to MLA standards –double spaced, 1 inch margins, Times New Roman, 12 point font, header (last name page number), heading (student name, professor name, course and section, date).

7. Summarize: You are now ready to summarize.  When you summarize something, you should not have the item sitting next to you or open on the computer with you.  Again, you are not consulting the source and writing a play-by-play account of everything in it.  You are simply summarizing what you have read, so use the notes you took.

-          The first sentence of your summary should identify the article title (use quotation marks) and author.

-          Using the notes you jotted down, write the summary like a paragraph.  It should be approximately three-fourths to one full page (approximately 12-15 sentences) summarizing what the article is about.  If there was anything else you remembered that you wanted to include when you reread the article for a third time, try to insert it without referring back to the article.

-          Then do the same for the second article. Yes, right there on the same document, you will write a second paragraph summarizing the second article.

8. Cite: Once you have completed your summary, you need to include the appropriate MLA citation for the articles you summarized. Again, look back on the week’s readings. This will be noted on a separate page of the same document. To do this:

-          After you have typed your summary, click enter.

-          Click “Insert” and then “Page Break”.

-          Center align the words Works Cited.

-          Click enter, then left align to begin typing the citations.

Remember, the citations go alphabetically according to the author’s last names. This might not be the order you wrote the summary paragraphs, and that’s okay! MLA 8 is the version you need to be using.

9. Submit: Save your document in a Rich Text Format and submit it THIS WEEK to the Summary Assignment link. This is worth 200 points.