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Article Summary Assignment 2021
Article Summary Assignment 2021
Select and read an article from the collection of four articles from the journal Scientific American
available on Chamilo. Then write a summary of your chosen article.
Requirements
- Length: around 500 words
- Your submission must be written using the Ense_1A_Summary_Template document available
on Chamilo.
- Submit the document in the format required by your teacher.
- Please DOUBLE-LINE-SPACE your work and make sure the grading grid at the end of the
template is fully included in your document.
- You are required to submit your summary via Chamilo (your group – “assignments” - NOT
“documents”).
- DEADLINE: as required by your teacher.
- You must write in paragraphs and use complete sentences.
- The summary must be in your own words.
- It will include only the most essential or significant information.
- It will emphasize the conclusions or recommendations the article makes.
- No new information should appear in the summary.
Criteria
Language
- Vocabulary
- Syntax - developed sentence construction appropriate for a formal written text
- Grammar
- Register - Appropriate for formal, scientific, professional writing context
Content
- Content - selection of main ideas of source; appropriate focus; No added material
- Clarity of ideas - selected ideas clearly conveyed
- Organisation of ideas - clear paragraphing, logical progression of information
Here is the list of articles:
• The H2 Solution
Peter Fairley
Scientific American, February 2020, Vol. 322, No. 2, pp 36-43
Hydrogen energy could make a comeback as an important piece of the all-renewable energy puzzle