Special Education
Paper details:
There should be a cover page, 2 pages for the review in which about half page is a brief summary of article, and a reference page (if you use any references from other articles or your text book, please put them as a reference and cite them appropriately in the review)
When you quote or paraphrase from a source, you must cite within the text include the author’s last name, date of publication, and page number with the abbreviation p. (use pp. if the quotation or paraphrase is from multiple pages in the source), such as:
1. According to MacLean (2007), the example of the former Soviet Union shows that, when workers are not paid well, their productivity decreases (p. 220).
2. One statistic that shows the need for a living wage law is that “for the first time on record, a person working full-time at the minimum wage cannot pay market rate rent on a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the United States” (MacLean, 2007, p. 220).
I suggest you write this immediately after reading your article…when it is freshest in your mind. Summaries are difficult for most of us to do…so think of it as your “impression” of what it is about. This is not the place for detail after detail…that’s not a summary. A summary contains a balanced presentation of relevant ideas about the article so that…another person is able to tell what it is about. The suggested length is half page.
This should be where you wrap it up and no more than a paragraph. Perhaps a final, overall summary of what you read and what more you would like or not like to see about the topic.