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Summarization Instructions
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I will ask you to go slow at first so I have a chance to check out your
summarization. I will probably make some corrections at first - it's a
learning process.
WOA!! now runs on an on-line system for summarization called Autosubmit.
There are several areas of interest -
Environment/Sustainability
Please choose an area of interest and go there by clicking on it. Then choose an article that you want to
summarize, you will see a red arrow to the right of the article - at the end. Click on the arrow.
This should bring you to a log-on form. Just enter your account number which you will have received by email.
The option is already set for summarization of the article.
Click on GO.
This should bring you to the summarization form for the article that you
choose. Please let me know if you have any problems.
Enter your summarization for the article in the box and when finished,
click on the 'SUBMIT' button.
You should get a message saying the article has been submitted and what it would
look on the web page. Please let me know if you need to make any corrections.
Do as many articles (or as few) as you wish.
Why/How do we Summarize Population and Environmental News?
The News Digest, which is on the front page of WOA!! provides a large set of
news items in summarized form for quick scanning by the population-concerned
and by those who may be just newly aware to the problems and impacts of
overpopulation.
In addition, the WOA!! News Digest and Archives provide a valuable research
tool for those who want to check out certain facts or statistics on the
environment, sustainability, population, or family planning.
If you would like to help WOA!! by summarizing news articles, it is important
that you retain, for each article, important statistics and facts that
researchers can use. Also look for opinions from respected researchers. Many
of the links to news articles go dead after awhile, but WOA!! will still
retain the news summaries.
When you summarize an article for WOA!!, one or two quotations are allowed,
but please give the source of the information. Cite publications
so viewers can go to the library and do more research. Copy a little, but
paraphrase a lot, to avoid copyright infringement. Rearrange the order to
emphasize sustainability and population. Shorten paragraphs by
cutting out most descriptive words and hyperbole. Cut out unclear concepts
or wordy explanations. Often the same thing will be said twice in the same
article - combine or eliminate. Skip over the anecdotes or generalize from
them.
PLEASE DO NOT ADD YOUR OWN INFORMATION OR OPINION except in the comment box.
At any rate, I publish very few comments and there is no guarantee that I will
publish them.
Thanks! I really appreciate your offer to help.
Karen Gaia Pitts . . .
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