Summarising an article

Your next blog task will be to summarise the content of a newspaper article. We have started dealing with society and social issues in module 9 of the textbook, and we have also learnt about reading strategies that you can use when you need to summarise a text. These are:

- read the text to get the general idea
- identify the topic of each paragraph in the form of topic words or key words
- underline the key sentence in each paragraph (often at the beginning), find information that backs it up
- summarise each paragraph in one or two sentences
- write the summary as a coherent text: use your own words to write down the main points and the key information

I've chosen several recent articles from the website of the Guardian. They all deal with different social issues. Choose ONE of them and write a short summary of 100-150 words, which includes the most important ideas expressed in each paragraph and the whole text.

Drop the antibiotics, we need a new battle plan against bacteria
Widening gap between rich and poor threatens to swallow us all
Rivers, lakes, wetlands: could water become the world's biggest market
Coca-Cola's sugar problem

Dont' forget to link the article you read and summarise in your blog post.

The assignment should be accomplished by next Friday, that is 1 February.