Summary of Article – A four to a seven-sentence summary of the article (the main ideas and important details). As you need to pick up the main ideas and important details in your summary, you need to select news articles that are not too long to summarize. Also, do not pick editorials, promotional materials, or marketing materials that are carried on PR news wires, or anything that is clearly labeled as the opinion only. You want articles that contain solid information — news articles. Finally, you don’t want long multi-page scholarly articles for these brief, right-to-the-point reading assignments. Those scholarly articles are appropriate for your research, but not in these news-oriented reading assignments.
Reaction – A Four to seven-sentence reaction to the article. This is where you present your reaction to the information. You can also comment on the quality of the coverage, biases in it, questions left unanswered, questions left unasked, or any number of other questions. What you can’t do is just say you liked it or not. You need to have a reaction to the article. It could be how this was new to you or presented a different perspective. Or you may want to share a different perspective or add new information