summarize the introduction and discussion sections of a professional reading. This article will be one within the Physical Education or Exercise Science literature of interest to the student, and will be found in professional journals (a sample of which is found earlier on the syllabus and is repeated below). This assignment will serve as an introduction to the scholarly material that you will be reading and “living” should you choose the profession. What does it mean to summarize? It means to tell the information again in fewer words. It can be challenging to accomplish this while keeping all the important points of the article! As you write the paper, discuss the topic. Back up or be able to substantiate a statement you make using information contained in the book and from our discussions. Your conclusion will reinforce what you wrote in the paper, while you share potential new directions in which the topic can be researched. Naturally, you’ll need an opening paragraph, a body of several paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. You will often need to give credit (or “cite”) references. If you are citing it in a Reference section, the following would be an example of how it might look. Zach, S., Stein, H., Sivan, T., Harari, I., & Nabel-Heller, N. (2016). Success as a springboard for novice physical education teachers in their efforts to develop a professional career. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education 34(2). You might also want to mention a study while writing. In this case you need only mention the author, and the study year (and then the whole reference is placed in the reference, or bibliography, section). Examples include: Kessler (2003) found that…(the rest of the sentence). Readings may be from: Journal of Teaching in Physical Education Quest Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport