Behavioral and Social Aspects of Public Health july 30, 2025

Please select only one article to summarize.

Distal and Proximal Factors of Health Behaviors and Their Associations with Health in Children and Adolescent

How to write an Article Summary
When writing a summary, the goal is to use your own words to synthesize what you have read.
The summary should focus only on the article's main ideas and important details that support
those ideas. In a summary, you should not give your opinion or recommendations. You can give
these when you critique an article later in the semester.
Guidelines for summarizing an article:
• State the main ideas.
• Identify the most important details that support the main ideas.
• Summarize in your own words.
• Do not copy phrases or sentences unless they are being used as direct quotations.
• Express the underlying meaning of the article, but do not critique or analyze.
• The summary should be about one third the length of the original article.
Your summary should include:
• Introduction
o Give an overview of the article, including the title and the name of the author.
o Provide a thesis statement that states the main idea of the article.
• Body Paragraphs
o Use the body paragraphs to explain the supporting ideas of your thesis statement.
o The number of paragraphs will depend on the length of the original article.
▪ One-paragraph summary - one sentence per supporting detail, providing 1-
2 examples for each.
▪ Multi-paragraph summary - one paragraph per supporting detail, providing
2-3 examples for each.
o Start each paragraph with a topic sentence.
o Use transitional words and phrases to connect ideas.
• Concluding Paragraph
o Summarize your thesis statement and the underlying meaning of the article.
Adapted from "Guidelines for Using In-Text Citations in a Summary (or Research Paper)" by
Christine Bauer-Ramazani, 2020