500-Word Summary – Phase 1

For this assignment, you’ll summarize an article related to your major/career, and do it as a 500-word memo. Here’s the Format for 500 word summary

Phase 1 asks you to do the following:L

• Using the library’s databases and journal holdings, find five articles that are related to your major/career interests. They should be recent and rigorous.
• Using those five articles, create a memo that lists the bibliographic information of those articles in APA format. Follow this guide for periodical sources, “Articles in Journals,” https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/07/. Format your memo using the “heading element,” “opening element,” and “task elements” found in this guide: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/590/02/ . Then list each article’s bibliographic information. Save this document (feel free to post it on Open Lab — to do that, create a post, then click the box “Summary-1” in the Categories menu, and hit Publish). Print and bring one copy to class.
• Last, choose one of your articles that you would like to use for your 500-word summary assignment. Create a reverse outline of this article. The easiest way to do that is to read the first paragraph, then in your notebook, write a one-sentence summary of that paragraph in your own words. Then read the next paragraph, and skip a line in your notebook and write a one-sentence summary of that paragraph in your own words. Do this for each paragraph. As you write this reverse outline, identify the article’s argument/main point and identify the supporting evidence for the article’s argument/main point.