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Sample Summaries by Students |
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See also an online sample summary at Colorado State.
The samples below are papers by students, unless specifically noted. They are examples of "A" level undergraduate writing or entry-level professional work. To get a better idea of how this type of paper is written, you will want to look at all the samples. Then compare the samples to each other and to what the "Basics" part of this chapter says.
The authors of all sample student papers in this Web site have given their permission in writing to have their work included in CollegeWriting.info. All such samples remain copyrighted by their original authors.
Unless otherwise noted, sample papers do not necessarily meet all requirements
an individual instructor or work supervisor may have. In addition, they are
single spaced, whereas a proper manuscript given to an instructor or
supervisor normally should be double spaced unless another format has been
requested.
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Sample One: Short, Basic, Rough-Draft Summary |
SPECIAL NOTES: This summary is very short, primarily because it was the first draft done by the student (but edited for publication).
University of Minnesota
Eng 3027-5, Advanced Composition
Rough-Draft Summary
© 2000 by Min Seok Kim
Science Shows Us
How the World Is
by
Min Seok Kim
"Is Science Dangerous?" by Lewis Wolpert appeared in the March
25, 1999 issue of Nature. In this
article, Wolpert insists that scientific knowledge has no moral or ethical
value, and that all it does is make a just society.
Wolpert tells us that we do not know the exact difference between science
and technology. In actuality,
science makes ideas about how the world works; scientists do not cause unethical
behaviors. However, technology—such
as the genetic engineering feats of human cloning, gene therapy, and genetically
modified foods—can do so.
Wolpert suggests some guidelines to reduce ethical problems: all
scientific ideas should be criticized by others; knowledge should be used to do
good, not evil; and government and the media should act correctly in carrying
out the applications of science
In the article "Is Science Dangerous?" Lewis Wolpert explains that science itself is not dangerous, and the real danger depends on how safely science is applied—and on how we respond to it.
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Sample Two: Long, Finished Summary |
SPECIAL NOTES: The subtitles in this sample add clarity, but most instructors either do not require them or prefer that they are not used in a summary.
University of Minnesota
EngC
3027-5, Advanced Composition
Formal Summary
© 2000 by Roger S.
Thomas
A
Summary of "National Security Justifies Censorship"
by
Roger S. Thomas
Introduction
The article "National Security Justifies Censorship" by Elmo R. Zumwalt and James G. Zumwalt, appears in Censorship, a book in the Opposing Viewpoints Series. The article asserts that information that is secret and vital to the security of the nation should not be released to the press. The arguments made by Zumwalt Senior and Junior are summarized below.
Summary
Although many journalists contend that the First Amendment guarantees unrestricted printing freedom, the authors believe the press has gained more power than the framers of the Constitution foresaw and therefore neglected to install safe guards that would protect national security. According to the authors, the power of the media has gone far past what the constitutional framers expected; consequently, several acts since the writing of the Constitution have been implemented to deal with the lack of protection regarding national security. The authors continue to affirm that even though significant risk exists when confidential information is released to the press, this danger has remained unresolved by the courts.
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authors cite an example to prove this point. The CIA during the Reagan
administration recognized Muhamar Quadaffi as a known terrorist and a potential
threat to national security in a classified document. The Washington Post
somehow had the document disclosed to them, and they soon published the
information. Several months after
the operation had been abandoned, the CIA found Quadaffi responsible for the
bombing of a West Berlin discotheque. Military action had to be taken because of
the earlier release of the classified document. The operation incurred military casualties.
The authors then offer a two-part solution: (1) make the publication of classified information a punishable offense, and (2) incorporate a "code of ethics" into media guidelines that safeguards national security. The paper ends by discussing how ethics are the responsibility of good journalism.
Conclusion
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