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Long Beach City College-Child Development and Educational Studies.

Article Summary/Review- Due Sunday 4/19/20 at 6:00 PM

Purpose: This assignment will provide the student with the opportunity to explore one or more specific topics and connect these ideas to the textbook and course content. Reading and thinking about new information from professional journals provides the student with a gateway into the more detailed aspects of topics we have studied in a general way in class.

Skills/knowledge: In completing this assignment the student will practice their reading, writing, reflection and critical thinking skills. This assignment will provide the student with the opportunity to connect to multiple course topics and integrate new knowledge into existing understandings.

Task:

· For this assignment you will choose one of the journal articles provided about children and families and write a 2-3 page summary and reflection on the article Write a 2-3 page paper that is outlined as follows:

Summary

1. List the author and title of the article, the publication the article came from and the date of publication.

2. Paragraph 1: A 1 paragraph summary of the article

3. Paragraphs 2-4: A minimum of 3 paragraphs that describe in detail at least 3 main ideas from the article

a. Use quotes from the article to illustrate your points

Reflection

4. Paragraphs 5-7: A minimum of 3 paragraphs that reflects on the information by describing:

a. How the information from the article connects to what you have learned this semester in this course

i. Be specific-what topic(s) from class? How does it connect? (the course topics are related to each text chapter and to subheadings within each chapter)

1. Use text quotes to back up and frame your ideas.

b. How the information from the article connects to your learning- what new ideas or insights did it give you? What previous learning was expanded upon or confirmed for you?

c. How you think you will use or integrate the information from the article into your schooling, career and/or life? (be specific- and remember- don’t choose an article that you don’t find any connections to)

Read the rubric on page 2!!!!

Grading Rubric…

Presentation

Exceeds-meets expectations:

5-4 points

Meets-approaches expectations

3-2 points

Does not meet expectations

1-0 points

· Grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure and formatting are accurate with less than 5 mistakes

· The paper has a heading with the students’ name and course #

· The paper is standardly formatted) 1 inch margins, 12 point font, double spaced)

· Text and article quotes are present and cited accurately

· All quotes add meaning to the paper more than a simple definition

· Grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure and formatting are accurate with less than 10 mistakes

· The paper has a heading with the students’ name and course #

· The paper is standardly formatted) 1inch margins, 12 point font, double spaced)

· Text and article quotes are present

· Text and article quotes are mostly meaningful but not all

· Grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure and formatting are accurate with more than 10 mistakes

· Heading and/or formatting is non-standard.

· Text and/or article quotes are missing and/or do not really add any meaning or clear example.

Review/Reflection Content

Exceeds-Meets expectations

10-8 points

Meets/Approaches Expectations

7-6 points

Does not meet expectations

5-0 points.

· All response prompts are addressed, formatted into complete paragraphs and are directly related to the content of the article.

· Connections to course information is accurate

· Each of the three defined topics from the article each have at least one meaningful quote from the article

· The reflection portion has a minimum of 2 meaningful text connections

· All response prompts are addressed and formatted into complete paragraphs, most of the content is directly related to the article. A minimum of 3 examples are quoted from the article to emphasize and clarify ideas.

· Connections to course information is mostly accurate

· Each of the three defined topics from the article each have at least one text connection that may not be clearly meaningful and/or is not accurately cited.

· The reflection portion has a minimum of 1 meaningful text connection

· Some response prompts are not addressed and/or most of the content is not directly related to the article and/or less than three examples are quoted from the article.

· Text and article connections are missing and/or not meaningful (they are all simple definitions or incomplete thoughts).

· The assignment outline is not followed in one or more ways.