Summary Smarts
What tense should the summary of the Atlantic article/TED talk be written in?
Smith says,
Smith said,
Smith will say,
Present tense
Smith says
How many ADDITIONAL sources (not including Atlantic article or TED talk) must you include in your response?
What is at least 4?
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 letter in the English language begins more words than any other letter?
What is "S"?
What should you assume about your reader when writing the summary section?
What is you should assume your reader has not read your Article or seen your TED talk?
What does it mean to use the Atlantic article/TED talk as a “jumping-off point” for your response section?
What is to further the conversation started by the article/TED talk by offering your own ideas, experiences, and research in response to it?
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 is the shortest and oldest word in the English language?
What is "I"?
What are the two ways you should be using information from your Atlantic article/TED talk throughout 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/TED talk in your response section?
What is pointing out what you agree with, disagree with, what the author overlooked, minimized, or confused?
What information should you include in an MLA in-text citation? (2 things) What if that information is not available?
What is the author's last name and page number? What is the article title?
How many thousands of new words did Merriam-Webster add to their dictionary in 2025?
What is 5,000?
Including "hard pass," "dumbphone," "ghost kitchen," "photobomb," and "fanfic"
What should you not include in your summary section? (2 things)
What is your personal opinion or outside sources (unless they’re embedded in the Atlantic article/TED talk)?
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/TED talk?
What are 5 important things when it comes to the MLA Works Cited page formatting?
What is starting on a new page, title Works Cited, double spaced, hanging idents, alphabetical order, all sources you used in your paper?
What is the most commonly used adjective in the English language? (A descriptive word)
What is good?
What basic information about the Atlantic article/TED talk must appear in your introduction? (List at least 4 things)
What are the author’s full name, professional position, publisher, article title, and publication date?
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/show its credibility?
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)
Smith interviewed Molly Mannes, and she said, "quote."
How many letters long is the longest word in the English language? (Your guess needs to be within 2 letters of the correct answer)
What is 45-letters long?
It's a lung disease called "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"