Article Report

  

Article Report Instructions

1. Your article report study will include a current business article of your choice. “Current” means not older than 30 days. This report will be a summary of an article you have selected from a current national news magazine, newspaper, or website.

2. You MUST use the Central Texas College Oveta Culp Hobby Memorial Library to find your articles for the reports. They have many online resources for journals, articles, and e-books.

3. You MUST use the Article Report format: busi1301_article_rpt_1_.rtf

4. Write a three to five sentence summary of the article. You will briefly summarize the article by stating the main points in your own words in a few complete sentences (just enough to capture the gist of the article). DO NOT include your opinion in the summary section of the report. A summary includes only information that is contained in the article--it is not an essay.

5. Write at least a half-page, double-spaced opinion section about the article. Provide your conclusions or opinions about the article in accordance with the prescribed one-page format. Your thoughts/opinion should only appear in the opinion section.

6. The report must be in the correct format with all items completed, all information typed, and it must not exceed one typewritten page. The writing must be correct with regard to grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure.

7. You MUST include a copy of the article or a web link to the article with the completed Article Report.

8. Substantiate your answers with quotations from the text and give parenthetical citation. The correct format would be (Author, 102). Do not forget to substantiate your answer with direct quotations from the book. Do not cite a broad range of pages as the source for the answer. In other words, do not cite pages 33-55; be specific. If there is no summary or text citations, there could be a substantial percent deduction.

It must be submitted following the instructions below:

· Create your assignment in a word processing software program on your computer.

· Name it Name_AR1 (example: Joe Smith would name his JSmith_AR 1.rtf) and save on your computer or memory device as an .rtf document (rich text format).

· When you are ready to submit it, select the link above (the assignment name).

· When the new screen opens locate ATTACH LOCAL FILE and select the BROWSE button to navigate to the document.

· Navigate to your document.

· Select SUBMIT when you have found it.

· Do NOT paste your assignments in the comments box; this is meant for short notes to the instructor and will not provide enough space to hold an entire assignment.

Open the links below to access the link to turn in your Article Reports

Scoring Criteria for Article Reports

The following criteria will be used in assigning a grade to each written report:

   

Scoring Criteria for Reports

 

Criteria

Points

 

1.   You must submit a copy of the article with your report. A link to an online   article is acceptable.
 

NOTE: If no copy/link is included, maximum possible report score   is 25 points since items 3 and 5 cannot be scored without a copy/link of the   article.

5 points

 

2.   Your summary must be no more than 3 lines.

5 points

 

3.   The article must be business related, current, and of sufficient length to   support a college-level report. “Current” means not older than 30 days.

10 points

 

4.   The report must be in the correct format with all items completed, all   information typed, and it must not exceed one typewritten page.
 

Do not include your opinion in the summary.

10 points

 

5.   The report must be predominantly in your own words, as opposed to quotes, and   all quotes must be indicated by quotation marks.
 

(NOTE: A significant number of uncredited quotes will result in   a zero grade for the report).

5 points

 

6.   The writing must be correct with regard to grammar, spelling, punctuation,   and sentence structure.

10 points

 

7.   The report should make a connection to what you are reading in the textbook   and establish a correlation between the textbook materials and article chosen.

5 points

 

Total

50 points