Reading and summarizing scientific papers is a key skill set that can only be perfected with lots of practice.  Given this, you will be submitting weekly reading summaries throughout the semester.  These should not be a burden not take a huge amount of time.  Please note that all of these should be properly formatted and free of grammatical or spelling errors.

You can download a pdf version of this example here.

Here is an additional example of a nice, model reading summary: