Earth Science – Academic Article Summary and Strategic Reading Assignment
MLA
550 words for the reading strategy
250 words for the article summary
-Differentiate and explain approaches to reading and critical analysis of scholarly or popular
-alphabetic texts and figures (charts, graphs, tables)
-Analyze and contrast the rhetorical contexts for a variety of texts (including purpose, audience, 
stance, exigency, genre, and media/design).
The article is over geology/earth sciences, so please be knowledgeable in this field!