Each digest will be a summary of a scholarly article that discusses one of the assigned texts or authors for the course. The summary should focus on what the arguments presented in the article and how these arguments are actually made. Given that this assignment is a summary, do not make any critiques or advance any of your own arguments in the actual digest itself, save these ideas for your papers. Keep in mind that you do not have to write a paper on the assigned text/author that you write a digest on, nor do you have to use the article that you digested.
Search for your academic article using Academic Search Complete (EBESCO), Project Muse, JSTOR, or ProQuest databases that are accessible through the university library website (https://www.shawnee.edu/areas-study/clark-memorial-library). Let me know if you run into any difficulties finding an article and/or determining if an article is suitable.
Do not use articles that are shorter than 6 pages, are written by undergraduates, and/or are published by journals of undergraduate research. Book reviews, undergraduate or Masters theses, and Doctoral dissertations should not be used. Articles from certain websites or blogs can only be used with explicit permission that must be granted in advance.
Each digest will be about 2-3 double spaced pages in length.
Instead of a title, write the bibliographic information of the article in question using Chicago or MLA format. After the bibliographic entry, begin your summary as you would a regular paper. The first sentence of the digest should follow the basic format of In “title of article” Author argues (provide the central argument of the article). From here, proceed to summarize the article. Make sure that you are paying attention to what arguments are being made and how the author goes about making these arguments. Make sure that any direct quotes have the appropriate punctuation and are cited correctly.
At the end of the digest, write a 2-4 sentence snippet offering suggestions of potential uses for the article you digested. These suggestions will likely be along the lines of “This article is useful for those who are interested in [insert appropriate topics & types of argumentation or critical approaches here].”
You will be graded on the quality of the written digest in term of how well you summarize the article, the clarity of your writing, and the correctness of the citation of the article in question.