Choose one of the papers from the "Topics and Readings" section of the 
course website. Read the paper, and specifically make sure that you 
don't read the abstract (hide it, cover it up -- do whatever it takes so 
that you don't actually read it). Then, based on your reading of the 
body of the paper, write a ~250-word abstract for this paper. As your 
write your abstract, keep in mind the key components of an abstract that 
were discussed in class.