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http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/12/health/social-media-brain/ 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/understanding-elite-athlete/

 

 

 

1. Write a 300-500 word summary of the article. This summary will consist of a fewparafraphs that summarize the main and supporting points of the article.

objectives

2. Master pre-reading and reading strategies for different texts

3. Determine the logic to the ordering of ideas in a text and identify the transitions as signposts to the different parts of texts

4. Annotate a reading by identifying main ideas and supporting evidence

5. Summarize accurately

To complete this assignment successfully

*Read and annotate the article, noting in the margins the main purpose each paragraph.

 *Underline the main points of the article and number the evidence that supports it.

*Try making an outline of the article

* Determine the article's thesis (implicit or explicit)

* Make a list of what to include in your summary.

* Draft, paying careful attention to attribution of ideas and/or citations.

* Review paraphrases .

*Revise

Checklist

 Content:

Do you correctly surmise the thesis of the article?*
o Do you accurately report all the main and supporting points for this thesis?

 o Have you represented the author's ideas clearly without distortion?

o Have you represented the authors ides concisely without including unnecessary detail?

 o Have you used attributive tags to discuss the author's arguments?

o Have you used your own words with few quotes and adequate paraphrase?

 o Have you followed summary conventions mentioning the title and the author of the article? o Have you included a works cited page?

 Organization:

o is your summary organized logically so as to clearly present the argument of the article (without necessarily mirroring the original order of the article)?

 o Have you used transitions to smoothly link the supporting points to the main points?

 o Do you differentiate (if necessary) between more important and less important reasons through transitional words?

Style:

 o Is the summary typed and double spaced?

o Is the essay clean stylistically, using concise and clear sentences, strong verbs and active voice, and sentence variety?

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