Research+Review

** Overview. ** Find a high-quality research article on some aspect of children and media and write a one-page single-spaced precis.  ** Process. **  1. Formulate a research question and identify 5 - 10 appropriate keywords.  2. Use Temple University library databases to search for relevant articles.  3. Read the article carefully.  4. Write a highly compressed summary of the article, completely in your own words, capturing all the key information and ideas of the original article.  DUE: Friday, March 25  More information about the precis.  The key word here is assimilation. When you read the material, it is probable that you will understand only those parts which have associations within your own experience (intellectual, emotional, physical, etc..  How you actually go about writing a precis depends largely on your ability to restate the writer's central ideas after you have assimilated them in your own mind.   Here are the rules of the game:   1. Read the article many times most carefully.   2. Write a precis of the article in which you state the entire argument and present the logical progression and development of the argument.  3. Reduce the article to one-fifth of its original length and omit nothing from the essential argument.