The attached article is about American business topics.
The book that is being used for this course is: Small Business Management: Launching and Growing Entrepreneurial Ventures, 20th Edition, Cengage Learning. Longenecker, J., Petty, J., Palich, L., & Hoy, F.
The format has to be exactly as the example:
Summary: (3-Sentence summary)
Discussion (150 words in 3rd person)
Opinion (300 words)
Works Cited (Article Citation is listed at the bottom of the article)
Write a three sentence Summary of the article. You will briefly summarize the article by stating the main points in your own words in a few complete sentences (just enough to capture the gist of the article). DO NOT include your opinion in the summary section of the report. A summary includes only information that is contained in the article–it is not an essay. Write from the third person view.
Discussion section should present the major content of the article which is compared with the content that the authors of the text present. This process is known as a Compare and Contrast assignment. The authors of the article can agree with the content presented by the authors of the text; the authors of the article and the text can be in disagreement. Write this section from the third person view.
Write at least a 300-word, double-spaced Opinion section about the article. The Article Report should be no longer than 600 words. You should provide your conclusions or opinions about the article. Validate your opinions by citing what the textbook authors write. Your thoughts/opinions should only appear in the opinion section. You should use direct quotations from the article and the text to support your opinions, conclusions, and/or suggestions. The cogent direct quotation should be followed by a parenthetical citation. Write this section from the student view points aka first person.
The report must be in the correct format with all items completed, all information typed. The writing must be correct with regard to grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure. Central Texas College adopted the Modern Language Association formats for use in all classes.
The citation format from the CTC Library will be in this format shown below and must be used:
(Modern Language Assoc.)
Works Cited
You MUST include the link to the working website where you obtained the copy of the article with the completed Article Report. The MLA format from the library contains that link.
In the Discussion section, you should compare and/or contrast what the article author(s) is reporting with the content of the text content. The goal of the assignment is for you to find that what you are reading in the text corresponds to what the article author(s) are reporting. If the article author(s) is adding more content than what the authors of the text offer, then you should note that additional and salient content from the article authors. If the article author(s) does detract from what you are reading in the text, then discuss the distractions. Always, use direct quotations from both resources.
8. In the Opinion section of the report, substantiate your answers, observations, and/or conclusions with quotations from the text and article, and give a parenthetical citation. The correct format would be (Author, 102). Do not forget to substantiate your answer with direct quotations from the textbook. Do not cite a broad range of pages as the source for the answer. In other words, do not cite pages 33-55; be specific. If there are no summary or text citations, there could be a substantial percent deduction in your grade.
In this class, a student should directly quote material from the text to support the student’s opinion. The quote should begin with quotation marks and end with closing quotation marks. Next comes the parenthetical citation which identifies from which text the quote came and the page number. A Works Cited section must be included in the Modern Language Association format.
