2007-2008
ARTICLE REVIEWS
ARTICLE REVIEWS are written summaries of a newspaper
or magazine article about current scientific topics. The articles these summaries are taken from
are to be no more than 1 year old from current date. The summaries are to be TYPED, on normal paper (typing/computer paper) using 12 pt.
type (font) with 1" or less margins on left/right sides (on MSWord you’ll have
to set them on FILE then PAGE SETUP because the default setting is different
than this). The information at the top of the page is to be SINGLE SPACED
and located in these general locations:
|
"Article
Title" in quotes First/Last
Name Newspaper /Magazine
Name (underlined or in italics) Class Name Date of Newspaper or Magazine Due
Date Internet address and/or Pg. # of the article (The summary is to be DOUBLE SPACED, a
minimum of 10 complete lines long, with the same margins as before. Any direct quotes from the article must be
in "quotation marks"--remember, this is to
be a SUMMARY of an article—quotes no more than ¼ of your review!) |
A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE YOU ARE TAKING YOUR SUMMARY FROM MUST BE
STAPLED BEHIND YOUR SUMMARY.
Reviews not handed in following these directions
will either be returned immediately (late grade) and/or points will be reduced. Article
Reviews with more than 3 misspellings, grammatical or punctuation errors, or
more than 3 of any combination, will be marked down. PROOFREAD YOUR ARTICLE REVIEW OR HAVE SOMEONE
ELSE THAT YOU TRUST DO IT FOR YOU!!!
Magazines that would be helpful
from the school library: Popular Science, Discover, E (The
Environmental Magazine), National Geographic, Smithsonian, Time,
Please use the following guidelines when picking your articles:
If you use Science News for your Article Review,
the article should take up AT LEAST 1/3 of the page; for Reader's Digest an article should be AT MINIMUM 1 complete page; for most other
magazines, the articles should be a two page minimum length; for newspaper
articles the article should be at least 16" of column; if you are unsure,
please ask (HINT: it is easier to get a
long enough SUMMARY if the article is a bit longer…!). No articles from newspapers or magazines more
than 1 year old from current date.
Note: all articles must come from
a published newspaper or magazine…no reviews will be accepted on
articles from the Internet that haven't been published in hard copy
(in an actual newspaper or magazine that is not part of the internet)--if it doesn’t include a date when it was
published in hard copy, then DON’T USE THE
ARTICLE! Note—I need both the
internet address and page number of the magazine/newspaper where
originally published if it comes from the internet.
REMEMBER: This
is to be a SUMMARY of an article…i.e. in your own words.
DUE DATES:_________________________________________________________________________________