Problem
Covid-19 pandemic has a profoundly negative impact on the world economy. Millions of jobs has been lost, retail sales have declined, hospitality industry has stopped entertaining, just to name a few. However, on the other hand, e-commerce has been one of the few bright spots in the overall economy, with "The first quarter 2022 e-commerce estimate increased 6.6 percent (±1.1%) from the first quarter of 2021 while total retail sales increased 10.9 percent (±0.4%) in the same period. E-commerce sales in the first quarter of 2022 accounted for 14.3 percent of total sales."*
Expects you to --
1. find an article from The Wall Street Journal (limit your search field within The Wall Street Journal unless you do not find any satisfactory articles; check with your instructor to obtain permission under this circumstance).
2. your chosen article must be relevant to subjects of e-commerce, e-business model, e-commerce infrastructure, e-commerce Apps, e-commerce security, e-commerce marketing, ethical issues in e-commerce, social issues in e-commerce, political issues in e-commerce, etc.
3. write an article summary with no more than 1000 words double space in font size 12, using your own words to rephrase key information you have gotten from that article without changing its original meaning
Other expectations for Assignment #1 Article Summary:
In the first paragraph of your article summary, you must let your readers know what they are about to experience or inform them that they are about to read a summary of an article. To deliver this message to them, you must list the following four pieces of information:
1. source origin (i.e., The Economist)
2. Issue or date of that article published (i.e., August 27, 2015)
3. author name (i.e., Cliff Edwards; also, there are cases that no author's name listed for an article, then you should state the fact as it is)
4. article title (i.e., "Marketing in the digital age A brand new game")
Lastly, you should reference your chosen article at the end of your article summary again, either by providing a web link to that article or providing a copy of that article in a separate file. Because your instructor must read your chosen article first before reviewing your article summary.