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C1-100 Assignment 1 Summary And Response

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Summary and Response
CS1-100 in Fall 2016

Assignment:

1) Carefully Read the Newsela article, “U.S. wants to peek inside iPhone but Apple holding up the shield of privacy”
2) Using the techniques discussed in the writing textbook and in class, summarize this article. Your summary should include only critical ideas from the passage, not your own opinion or ideas. Here are things that I will be looking for as I grade the summary:

• Length: A summary is a shorter version of the original piece of writing. Your summary should be 1/3 the length of the original piece or less. For this assignment, that means one long paragraph of less than 300 words.
• Relevance: Select only the main ideas to put into the summary. Discard the minor points.
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Do not add to or subtract from the meaning of the original work.
• Objectivity: Your summary should represent, as closely as possible, the author’s opinions and purposes. Also, you must give credit to the original source both in the topic sentence throughout your summary. Be careful to clearly show that these words are not your own, and include a correct APA reference section at the end of the paper.
3) Write a response paragraph to this article. The purpose of this part of the assignment is to demonstrate that you have understood the article and thought critically about it. This is where you include your own opinions and respond to what the author wrote. This requires critical thinking and sophisticated English In this section, you can do the following things:
• Agree, disagree, or partially agree/disagree with one of the arguments or perspectives that was expressed in the

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