Summary Smarts
What tense should the summary of the Atlantic article be written in?
Smith says,
Smith said,
Smith will say,
Present tense
Smith says
How many additional sources must you include in your response?
What is at least 4?
What information should you include in an MLA in-text citation? What if that information is not available?
What is the author's last name and page number? What is the article title?
What should you not include in your summary section?
What is your personal opinion or outside sources (unless they’re embedded in the Atlantic article)?
What is one thing you should make sure you do with each paragraph in your response section because this is a summary-response type of paper?
What is connect it back to the Atlantic article’s ideas and author?
Create a signal phrase for this scenario: You’re quoting a 2023 Atlantic article by Jane Doe titled “The New Age of Loneliness."
Dr. Jane Doe regularly contributes to The Atlantic, The New York Times, and NPR, and she previously served as a faculty member at the University of Michigan. She is a media sociologist who focuses on digital communication, technology ethics, and the intersection of media and mental health. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University and has spent the last 15 years researching how digital life affects human connection, loneliness, and community structures.
What is: According to Jane Doe, _____relevant credential here_____, "quote"
What two ways should you cite/refer to the Atlantic article in the summary section?
What is a mixture of direct quotes and paraphrases?
List at least three different ways you could respond to the Atlantic article?
What is pointing out what you agree with, disagree with, what the author overlooked, minimized, or confused?
Identify two punctuation mistakes in this sentence:
According to John Smith, a former writing professor at Grand Valley State University “the revision weeks are the most important weeks of the semester”.
What is missing a comma after University and period needs to be inside the quotation marks?
What basic information about the Atlantic article must appear in your introduction?
What are the author’s full name, professional position, publisher, article title, and publication date?
What does it mean to use the Atlantic article as a “jumping-off point”?
What is to further the conversation by offering your own ideas, experiences, and research in response to it?
What are 5 important things when it comes to setting up the MLA Works Cited page?
What is starting on a new page, title Works Cited, double spaced, hanging idents, alphabetical order, all sources you used in your paper?
What should you assume about your reader when writing the summary?
What is that the reader has not read the Atlantic article?
What should you do the first time you bring in an outside source in your response section?
Make up an example!
What is introduce it with a signal phrase?
Example: John Smith, a former Grand Valley writing professor,
If your Atlantic article author was John Smith and he interviewed Molly Mannes, how would you cite what Molly Mannes said?
According to Molly Mannes, "quote" (qtd. in Smith).
blah blah blah (Mannes qtd. in Smith)