Yale University Intergrating Community Gardens Essay

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to gain experience reading scholarly, peer reviewed articles. This type of source is common in academic reading and writing and, eventually, you will be locating and reading many of these in your own research.

Objective

For this assignment, you will gain practice reading, understanding, and summarizing a scholarly, peer reviewed research article.

Task

Here’s how you should approach this assignment:

  Watch the “How to Read a Scholarly Article 

Links to an external site.” (9 minutes) video.

Read the article Integrating community gardens into public parks.pdf

  Write the following:

      A 200-300 word summary of the article that includes the section headings of the article (for example, introduction, literature review, methods, results, conclusion) and what the main topics are in each of these sections.

      A minimum of 150 word paragraph on how you felt about reading the article (you could talk about how long it took you to read the article, if you found in challenging, what types of annotating or note taking strategies you used, terms you had to look up, how you felt about the content).