AI Option #1: Research Summaries (standard variant)

Assignment Overview: Research Summaries

Assignment Overview: Write a one-page (8.5x11) paper summarizing a specific source you discovered in your research. Put your name in the top left hand corner and list the author's name and the full citation information of the piece you're summarizing; set margins at 1 inch, spacing at single, and font at 12 pt. Do not exceed a page in length.

Specifics: Offer a concise but thorough summary of the position this source is advocating. Stay as close to the text as possible, quoting the author's exact words at times to tie both you and your readers to the original text itself—cite page numbers for any quotations in parentheses after the quote (just the page numbers; no pp. or p.). Your aim is to hand over to your readers your understanding of WHAT this text is arguing for. Phrases such as "Smith says/notes/states," or "according to Bell," etc. will help you designate what is called intellectual property. You will not have room to cover all the points an author makes, so you will need to synthesize the information for us, tell us what position the author is advocating and then offer quotes from the text itself to demonstrate (to show us) that the author is arguing what you say s/he's arguing. Do not offer your own comments, opinions, or arguments about what the text says, and do not offer a rhetorical analysis of the writing. Stick to content: what is the author saying in this text? What position is s/he advocating?

Assignment Overview: Write a one-page (8.5x11) paper summarizing and then commenting on a specific source you discovered in your research. Put your name in the top left hand corner and list the author's name and the full citation information of the piece you're summarizing; set margins at 1 inch, spacing at single, and font at 12 pt. Do not exceed a page in length.

Summary Section: The first three quarters of the page should be a concise but thorough summary of the position this source is advocating. Stay as close to the text as possible, quoting the author's exact words at times to tie both you and your readers to the original text itself—cite page numbers for any quotations in parentheses after the quote (just the page numbers; no pp. or p.). Your aim is to hand over to your readers your understanding of WHAT this text is arguing for. Phrases such as "Smith says/notes/states," or "according to Bell," etc. will help you designate what is called intellectual property. You will not have room to cover all the points an author makes, so you will need to synthesize the information for us, tell us what position the author is advocating and then offer quotes from the text itself to demonstrate (to show us) that the author is arguing what you say s/he's arguing. Do not offer your own comments, opinions, arguments about what the text says, and do not offer a rhetorical analysis of the writing, either. Stick to content: what is the author saying in this text? What position is s/he advocating?

Comments Section: In the last quarter of the page, briefly analyze the rhetorical approach of this piece (textually and contextually) and point to connections between what this text is arguing for and what other texts you've read in your research are arguing for—how do they intersect and/or differ?