For this assignment, you will read “Don’t Fear Artificial Intelligence” by Dominic Basulto (pp. 405-406 in our textbook Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum). Then, you will write a 1-2 page summary (approx. 250-500 words) of the article, following these steps:
Step 1: At the top of your document, write one sentence that defines YOUR rhetorical situation (context/ purpose/ audience) for writing your summary (Note: You must invent a rhetorical situation for your assignment based on a possible situation in which you might use summaries as a college student, using the template below)
Template: I need to write a (add genre) of (add title & author) on the topic of (add topic) in order to (add purpose) for an audience of (add audience) in/at (add context).
Example 1: I need to write a summary of the article “Don’t Fear Artificial Intelligence” by Dominic Basulto on the topic of artificial intelligence in order to prepare for a (class discussion, presentation, research paper, etc.) for an audience of other students and professors in a (philosophy, social science, computer science, etc.) class I am taking.
Example 2: I need to write a summary of the article “Don’t Fear Artificial Intelligence” by Dominic Basulto on the topic of artificial intelligence in order to prepare for a job interview for an audience of tech workers at a tech company I am applying to work for.
Step 2: Then, write a 1-2 page summary (approx. 250-500 words) of the article that includes the following:
Reflects your rhetorical situation (i.e. uses rhetorical, organizational, and/or linguistic features that appeal to your audience)
Begins with a statement that summarizes the author’s main message or overall argument (i.e. the thesis)
Paraphrases the main ideas of the article in the order they appear in the original article
Uses reporting/signal verbs & phrases, transitions, 1-2 quotations, and 2-3 in-text citations
(For an example of a summary that includes these components but without the citations, see Summary Example or p. 30 in our textbook Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum)
Note: Please upload a Word or PDF doc to Canvas by Friday at 10am with this format: 1-2 pages (approx. 250-500 words), double-spaced, 12 pt Times New Roman font
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