You will not be writing a paper for this assignment, just showing me that you can annotate, summarize, paraphrase, and create a Big Mac in three separate, unrelated paragraphs. The paragraphs are for 3, 4 and 5. I know it may seem odd that when our course theme/focus is happiness we are reading an article on loneliness, but it is a big issue in the U.S. today that relates to happiness, so…
Tasks:
Read and annotate the article “We Have Become a Lonely Nation,” by our current Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy: We Have Become a Lonely Nation.docx . While annotating, include the following: text marking, response, summary, and definition.
Then, you can either take a picture or scan of two pages from the article with your annotations, and upload these to Canvas. Or you can annotate on Canvas. Or, if you use Word or another online annotation tool to annotate, you can upload the file.
Summarize the entire article in 6-8 sentences.
Include only the main points.
Do not quote anything, and use all your own words.
Include a signal phrase at the beginning with writer and article title.
Paraphrase the paragraph beginning, “Loneliness and isolation hurt. . .”
Include all details of the paragraph, about same length as paragraph.
Do not quote anything, and use all your own words.
Include a signal phrase at the beginning with writer and article title.
Paraphrase can be difficult. Try to do your best. In terms of the actual paraphrasing, do a close reading of the paragraph first and take some notes. What exactly is it saying? What are all the points Murthy is making about the effects of loneliness? The first step is to completely understand it. The next step is to then translate it into your words/style of writing.
Create a quotation Big Mac using two quotations of your choice from the article.
Include bread, signal phrases, transitions, introductions to quotations, and analysis.
You can put numbers 3-5 in one Word document. Set up your document using MLA Guidelines for heading, title, spacing, etc. Purdue OWL’s website outlines MLA Formatting (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Save your assignment as a Word document (.doc or .docx). You can then upload it to Canvas by clicking on the “Submit Assignment” button. If any of you need extra help with this, let me know.
NOTE: You do not need in-text (parenthetical) citations for this assignment, as there are no page numbers for an online article (there are numbers but just for printing 1 to…). The signal phrases will count for the citation