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Assignment Overview

Honors Bio Current Event Articles
Look at this document for an overview of your current event article assignment.

Part 1: Topic Exploration

Example: topic exploration

Topic Exploration
Make a copy of this document to fill out your topic/article selections

Part 2: Current Event Article Summary Write Up

Current Event Article Summary Template
Look at this document for how to set up/format your current event article summary
Summary Example
Look at this completed summary if you want an idea of what yours should look like.
How to Summarize an Article
Struggling to summarize your article? Look at this resource to help you out.

Reading your article:

export article to Google Docs
read article and highlight the 5 most important pieces of evidence/information

For your article summary (follow template):

Name and class hour
Title (this would be the title of your article)
Copy/paste APA citation at beginning of summary
write 6-8 sentence summary
Submit completed summary as a PDF to Canvas

Databases

Science in Context - BVSW This link opens in a new window
Use this resource to find science specific articles.

Browse topics
Filter publication type (academic journals, magazines)
Filter publication date (within last 3 years)
Filter document type (article - NOT brief article)
Once you find an acceptable article, click "get link" on top right of page

Sample Articles

*Samples for appropriate length and content

Database Access

BVSW Database Passwords
Download the PDF to access database passwords at home. This is also available in Canvas if you cannot remember the password.

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