Article Summary #1
ESC 100 Article Summary #1 Directions and Grading Rubric
This article can come from the newspaper or you can get it online from a reputable news source. The news article needs to be recent (no more than 2 years old) and needs to show an aspect of environmental science in the report. This means it could address such things as: climate change, pollution, energy initiatives, oil use, renewable energy sources, population issues for various animals/insects/plants due to environmental or habitat changes…
Choose a news article pertaining to any area of environmental science
Introduce the article and the topic it pertains to in our class (paragraph 1)
Summarize the article (Paragraph 2)
Provide an analysis (your thoughts on the matter) (Paragraph 3)
Conclusion (Paragraph 4)
Include the web address of where you found the article
Works Cited (Website of the article)
the presence of all 4 elements (introduction, summary, analysis, conclusion)
following directions
Formatting (APA Formatting – title page, headers, references, in-text citations) Please see the APA formatting section on the main page assignment should be at least a page long – a minimum of 4 well developed paragraphs
Works Cited (Website of the article}