Astrit Terziu

The experience of finding an article for the 500 Words Summary.

For me the hardest step in writing the summary was to find the article. Because there are so many choices out there, it was difficult to decide which article was the best fit for the assignment. After I decided on which topic to write about, it was then the turn to search for the article. But it is not very easy to navigate through the online library to find what you want.

For this assignment I used Jstore library to find the article. And the article I chose was

“Electric Vehicles: Climate Saviors, or Not?”  by Jack Barkenbus.

During the summary assignments, I found some difficulty at first choosing my topic. After much research and assistance from the librarian I was then able to narrow my online search for peer reviewed journals. The writing of the 500 words summary using the peer reviewed journal was a challenge since it required me to read a few times to pick out the main points to focus my writing on.

The challenges that I had during this assignment where finding a technical or scientific article that was valid and long enough to write 500 words about it. Another challenge that I had was summarizing the key aspects of the article without it sounding subjective.  In the end I think I did a solid job on assignment.

Hello everyone,

Doing this 500-word summary was challenging. It was challenging because I did not know what article to chose. I had to find a credible source and I was looking for an article that interested me. Looking through so many articles was difficult for me and a bit boring to be honest. When I found an article I could work with the challenge became breaking it apart and looking at the main points. After reading the article many times it was possible to write the summary. The most challenging part for me was breaking the article down to get the main points across with enough information for the reader to understand.

While writing the summary, the first problem I encountered was how to start writing it after reading the article a couples time. Another problem I encountered was that the article was kind of lengthy and I needed to trim off parts that I thought were not important or redundant to the reader. Lastly, summarizing the entire article proved to be difficult as there was a lot going on and I couldn’t write more than 500 words in the body of the paper.

While Doing this assignment I learned a couple things. I realized that a lot of information can be concise and summarized since in my article a lot of the content was just restated to prove or to support a point previously made. However, when it cam to technical information I found it very hard summarize, it all seem relevant and very specific.
Overall, the assignment forced me to be more concise and help me to find ways how to convey a lot information with few words.

Overall I felt the technical summary was not the hardest thing I’ve had to do in my college career. Due to not taking an English composition class in years I felt that the initial start phase of finding the article and starting the summary was the hardest. Once I found an article I felt comfortable writing about starting the actual summary was very difficult. Once I outlined the things I needed to talk about and the things I should talk about the writing part became a lot simpler. I actually had a hard time not staying under or at the 500 words once I was in stride. So the hardest part was starting the writing and the easiest part was when I was in the middle of writing.

I found the summary to be difficult in that the material is very dry. When I summarized the information I found that my words became very robotic. There was also difficulty in trying to pin point what was very important since my article was very technical and gave off a lot of information about the topic. Trying to summarize and reword very straight forward information was also very difficult.

For me one of the hardest part of this assignment was trying to take all the points the author was stating, and write them more fluent in my summary, instead of just kind of listing them. When I was done with the summary, one thing that I was pleased was how efficient I was able to pick out the main points. The only little problem that I had what the transition between the points.

At first i was uncomfortable with the assignment due to using the Ursula Search Engine. From my experience articles from the libraries database tend to be long and use words and math equations that look foreign to me. However when i started it i found the article I wanted to do it on. It was difficult to summarize with the constraint of 500 words because there was 11 pages of information to evaluate. Although I did learn from this project  to remove redundant information and keep the important information within the constraint of 500 words.