Assignment: Abstract
1. What are the guidelines for evaluating and interpreting information (This checklist can be found on page 164 in our text). Using those guidelines locate a source utilized in your career field and evaluate the source based upon the checklist.
2. From media, personal experience, or the internet, identify an example of each of the following sources of distortion or of interpretive error. For each example list the name of the article, names of the author(s), and the reason you believe it can be identified as a distortion or interpretive error:
i. A study with questionable sponsorship or motives
ii. Reliance on insufficient evidence
iii. Unbalanced presentation
iv. Deceptive framing of facts
v. Overestimating the level of certainty
vi. Biased interpretation
vii. Rationalizing
viii. Unexamined assumptions
ix. Hasty generalization
x. Deceptive reporting
3. Find an article about your major field or area of interest and write an informative abstract for the article. Make sure to include a link to the article, or citation information so that I can locate the article itself.
4. Using the same article as in question three, write a descriptive abstract for that article.
5. Find a long article (at least 5 pages) and summarize it, following the step-by-step process described in Chapter 9 maintaining accuracy, completeness, conciseness, and nontechnical language. Capture the essence and main points of the original article in no more than one-fourth of the page length. Use your own words, and do not distort the original. Submit a copy of the original (or a link to the article) along with your summary.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
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