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In the abstract you should: (Don’t use bullet points. This is just to list things that should be in your abstract.)

· Identify the article that you have selected from the ‘Articles’ folder on Blackboard

· Paraphrase the abstract of this article

· State in your own words what you think this article is about

· Identify how many experiments this article has (some many only have 1 experiment, and some may have up to 4 different experiments in one paper) and state which experiment (e.g., Experiment 1 or Experiment 2) that you will be analyzing

Keywords: put, some, keywords, or, phrases, that, would, help, others, know, what, your, paper, was, about

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title of the Paper

This section should be your introduction. This section should be AT LEAST ¾ of a page, but no longer than 1 full page, double spaced (Times New Roman – 12 font). Things that you should include:

· Introduce the topic of your paper/the article you chose.

· Provide a brief history of the topic.

· Which article did you select and why; why is this study important to students today? (Don’t use “I”. Instead: The article selected for this analysis is … This study is important today because …)

· What is the research question in this experiment? What are they studying and why?

· If you are using direct citations or direct quotes, make sure to cite your source or it will be plagiarism! (You should have to cite some in this section! Look at the in-text citations section on the Purdue Owl APA link. Once you get to the page, look on the left side tabs.)

(The introduction ends here. Do not go into the Literature Review. That is for next week)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literature Review

Topic of the First Supporting Article/Study You are Discussing ( Here you will write the topic of the first supporting study that you will be paraphrasing. Below here you will paraphrase it.)

Talk about the first of those other supporting studies here. Do correct APA citation of the article title and the authors. Keep track of this study for your References page that will be due at the end of the semester.

Topic of the Second Supporting Article/Study you are Discussing ( Here you will write the topic of the second supporting study that you will be paraphrasing. Below here you will paraphrase it.)

Talk about the second supporting study here. Do correct APA citation of the article title and the authors. Keep track of this study for your References page that will be due at the end of the semester.

The total of the Literature Review should be at least 1 full double-spaced page. Remember, all your work should be double spaced in Times New Roman, 12 size font, just like this page. (Your Literature Review should look EXACTLY like this page but obviously with your information in place of the current things I have as placeholders.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Methods

In this assignment you will identify participants, instruments/materials, and procedures as a way of explaining how the study in the article was conducted. You should use subheadings, like below. The total of this Methods section should be AT LEAST ¾ of a page long and should look EXACTLY like this. Look at whether words are bold, italicized, if paragraphs are tabbed, everything is double-spaced, etc. Continue to pay attention to the running head title and page number! (You do not need to type anything between the Methods heading and the Participants sub-heading, I just typed here to give you the instructions. Jump straight into the participants!)

Participants

Here, you will talk about WHO the participants were. How many participated? Where did they get them from? What were some of the statistics of the participants, ages, sex, education level, etc. etc. Any information that the survey shares about the participants should be paraphrased and cited here.

Instruments/Materials

Here, you will talk about WHAT the researchers used to conduct their study. Did they provide a survey to their participants? Did they test them? Did they interview them? Did they observe them?

Procedures

Here, you will talk about HOW they did it. Since we now know what instruments/materials they used, what did they do with those instruments? How did they give them to their participants? Was it random? Did they debrief them? Did the participant sign an informed consent to allow the researchers to use their information in the study? How did they get surveys back? DO NOT give results here, just talk about HOW they did it.

Results

In this section you will paraphrase what the results or findings of your article were. Your article should have a section called “Results” or “Findings”. Go there. Read it. Paraphrase it here. By paraphrase it, I mean put it into words that make sense to you. You might see a lot of words or symbols that don’t make any sense to you. Much of it is advanced Psychology or research terms. You should Google search what they mean so that you can put it in your paper in words that make sense to you.

Remember, your paragraphs should be indented, just like the ones here are. Make sure to cite, cite, cite! Please do not use too many direct quotes. If you do, make sure to cite it correctly. Make sure to look at the difference between beginning-of-sentence, end-of-sentence, and quote citations. You can find info. on all of these on the APA website I provided, left side tabs called “In-Text Citations: The Basics” and/or “In-Text Citations: Author/Authors”.

Your Results submission should be at least ½ a page but no more than 1 full page. That is all! You are all starting to do a lot better on these paper sections! I know it was tough at first, but you are all doing well. Keep up the great work!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discussion

In this paragraph you should review and paraphrase the Discussion section in the article that you are analyzing. You should NOT re-state the results of the study, but you should tell us WHY we should care about the results and the study in general. What do the results mean to us and the common good?

Limitations

In this paragraph, you need to identify any limitations of the study. Limitation are things that could have influenced their study/results? Maybe it was a limitation that they only used men in their study? Or maybe everyone was too young? Or maybe their study might be flawed because they only used 50 students instead of 500. Just give me your ideas. Don’t say, “I think that…”. Instead you can say, “Limitations of this study might be that … etc. etc. Or - It is possible that their results might be different if they had done such and such or included more such and such…”. No “I’.

Extending the Study

In this third paragraph, you should talk about how/what you would do to make this study better or to extend it somehow. What could they do to uncover more information that could be interesting (which is what you will be discussing further in next week’s portion of the paper!) Again, don’t say “I would do this or that.”. Instead say, “The researchers could benefit from extending their research by conducting this same study with more participants.” Or – “This study could be extended by including men in addition to the women.” No “I”. As usual, all of this should be in double spaced Times New Roman 12 font.

 

 

 

References

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages.

Fink, L. D. (2013). The current status of faculty development internationally. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 7(2), 27-29.

Howard, G., Conway, C., & Maxwell, S. (1985). Construct validity of measures of college teaching effectiveness. Journal of Educational Psychology, 13(9), 187–196

 

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Here you need to include References for any study or author you cited in your paper, especially your article! You can find all that info. on the tops or bottoms of the first actual page of your articles. Your references should look like the ones above.

 

For help with References, go to the APA website, left side tabs called “Reference List: Author/Authors” and “Reference List: Articles in Periodicals”. The Reference page in the sample paper can also help! Additional Hints & Tips are located in the usual place in Blackboard.

That’s it! This is the last portion of an APA analysis paper! You just wrote a full APA format paper based off an article!

Give yourself a pat on the back! The next two assignments will look similar to these analysis paper assignments, but they’re not technically part of an APA paper. See y’all next week!

 

 

 

Follow-up Experiment

In this section, describe how you would extend the research. What would you do to make this study better? For example, what questions still remain after analyzing the results of the paper? What would you do to answer these questions? HERE YOU CAN NOW SAY “I”. It is now OKAY! No citations are needed in this assignment.

My Research Question

Once you’ve discussed what you do would do, you need to develop an additional research question and type it here under the bold/italicized subheading. Early in the paper assignments you read and shared what the article’s research question was. What were they trying to discover or find out? Now, it’s your turn. Based off what you said above on how to extend the research and make it better, what is YOUR research question or what are you trying to figure out? Say it here. My research question for this extended research is such and such and the reason I think this is important is because such and such. That’s it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proposed Method

In this section, you will then tell us HOW you will answer your question from last week. How will you extend the research? (refer back to the methods section in the article that you analyzed to help clarify how to write this section). It is okay to say “I” here and no citations are needed.

Participants

Under this bold/italicized subheading, explain WHO your participants will be (i.e., who will you use to collect your data in order to answer your new research question.). What is some info. about your participants that you thin will be important? Only ppl of certain ages? Certain sexes? From certain locations? Etc.

Instruments/Materials

Under this bold/italicized subheading, explain WHAT instruments/materials you think you will need to use to conduct your research. Will you use a survey? What will the survey ask them? Will you conduct interviews? What will you ask them? Will you do observations and just observe people’s behavior? What will you be looking for?

Procedures

Under the subheading, explain HOW you will conduct your research. Will you pass out a survey? Will you send it via Surveymonkey? Will you have ppl meet you at Starbucks for interviews? Will you go to a park and observe people? Tell me HOW you will conduct your study. Will you have them sign an informed consent before participating? Will you debrief them when they finish? Would you give them a gift for participating or do you think that would cause people to lie just to get a gift?