Read the passage below and summarize it using one sentence. You have 10 minutes to finish this task. Your response will be judged on the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the key points in the passage.
One of the many critiques of academic research that one runs across is that a lot of research done by a faculty at universities across America doesn’t ‘do’ anything: it
Politicians and business people criticize academic research and claim them to be pointless and costly, but the writer argues that students are able to gain invaluable training for their future careers through this research and the research may even turn out to be a very valuable piece of information.