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3.2 Assignment

Objectives:

• Summarize main ideas
• Distinguish between summary and response
• Respond to a source's main ideas
• Search for credible sources using the MC Library's databases
• Cite a source and create a Works Cited entry

Instructions:

In this assignment, you will summarize two articles on college education read last week. Since you need to be objective when writing a summary, you'll also get to explore whether you have an easier time being neutral when you agree or disagree with what you are summarizing. You will get a chance to respond to both articles, but it is important that you separate your summary from your response: In other words, you need to represent both articles fairly and neutrally before you respond to them. Finally, this assignment is your first chance to practice using in-text citations, signal phrases, and Works Cited pages.

To do this assignment, complete the following steps:

• First, before beginning this assignment, re-read the education articles linked in the last week folder.
• Start with the article which you personally find least convincing.
• Summarize the article. Stay objective, so, even though the article you’re summarizing disagrees with your own opinion, you still need to explain what it says in a neutral, unbiased way. Don’t forget to include signal phrases (“Miley writes that…” or “Macklin defends the view that…”) to make it clear to readers that you’re giving an author’s opinion, not your own. The summary of the article should be one paragraph long (200-300 words).
• In the same way, summarize the second article as objectively as possible in a second well-developed paragraph of 200-300 words. Avoid stating your own opinion.

• Next, in a third paragraph of a similar length, explain which article you find more convincing, and why. Build on your discussion of personal context dimensions last week. In addition, briefly explain whether you had a harder time writing objectively about the article you found least convincing or the one you found more convincing.
• Finally, view the videos on MLA in-text citations and Works Cited located in this weekly module. Review your summaries for unintentional plagiarism - missing signal phrases or citations when you have restated the article's content in your own words. Also, compare your own in-text citations to the examples in the presentation, Purdue video, and other given resources to be sure the in-text formatting is correct.
• For the two articles you summarized, create a Works Cited page that follows the guidelines in the MLA Works Cited video and Purdue video.
  
  
• Suggested length: Approximately 600-900 words.

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