Article Summaries
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Each nine weeks, each chemistry student must read a science article and write a summary. The article may come from a magazine, a newspaper, or the Internet. The summary must be from 1/2 page to 1 page in length. Points will be deducted if your summary is too long or too short. You must attach a copy of the article to your summary. Your source must be documented. You are to write your documentation on the top two or three lines of the page, skip two lines, and then begin your article summary. The format for documenting your source is below. Follow the format exactly, or points will be deducted.
Since the article summary is assigned at the first of the nine weeks, it is due the Friday before the end of the nine weeks whether you are present or not. The summary may be turned in early, but twenty percent will be deducted for each day it is late.
| Example for Documentation of Magazine Articles: (List
in order: author, date, title of article, name of
magazine, volume, and pages) Barko, Naomi. (1995, November). Is our universe expanding? There may be life out there. Scientific American. 71, 125-129. |
| Example for Documentation
of Newspaper Articles:
(List in order: author, date, title of article, name
of newspaper, and pages) Jaeger, Richard M. (May 16, 1998). New discoveries may end insulin injections for diabetics. Arkansas Democrat Gazette. A3. |
| Example for Documentation
of Internet Articles:
(List in order: author, date, title of article,
and Internet address) Harlen, Wynne. (1998, April). Making sense of the research on dinosaur artifacts. Available Internet: http://www.scre.ac.uk/n160harlen.html |