Article Summary

1) Use library resources to select an appropriate article2) Write a brief summary of the article3) Identify at least one positive statement4) Identify at least one normative statement5) Link the article to macroeconomic data6) Link the article to the course contentCriteria for Success: To be successful on this assignment students must:1) Find a good article:To find an article to summarize, look over the syllabus and scan the textbook, making a list of topics from either class that might interest you. Any topic for the class is fine, as long as it relates to macroeconomics. Take your list and search for articles using a bibliographic database. You will be utilizing articles written in the Wall Street Journal: which can be found in ProQuest. You can also use articles you find on the internet using a search engine like Google News.Ideally, an article you select will have all of the following characteristics: a) It interests you. b) It relates to a topic we have studied, or will study, in class. c) It is challenging, but not too challenging. A challenging article will help you develop your reading and summarizing skills more than a more basic one. On the other hand, a reading that you struggle to understand, from beginning to end, will make it very hard to do well on this assignment. If you do not understand a reading thoroughly, you cannot summarize it well. 2) Write a Good SummaryWhen you write a summary, you should communicate, in a clear, concise way: a) the crucial points an article makes and b) the crucial evidence used to support them. You should do both these things in your own words and writing style. Do not restate what your author said sentence by sentence. If you can, rely completely on paraphrases and not at all on quotations. If you must use them, however, brief quotations are acceptable. Of course, any time you quote an author’s words, you must indicate that you have done this by using quotation marks. Normally a summary strictly limits itself to communicating what’s crucial in the text it summarizes.3) Identify a Positive Statement