Question description
Writing Assignment 1: Article Summary
and Critique
Choose one of the articles
posted on Blackboard to summarize and critique. The purpose of this article summary is to
expose you to an original research source while allowing you to delve further
into a topic that relates to psychology.
In
your summary, please make sure to address the following points:
a) At the top of your paper make sure to include your
name and the Help write my thesis – APA style reference for your paper as follows:
Author,
A., & Author, B. (date of publication). Title of paper. Source of paper, issue, page range.
Example
Pazda,
A., Prokop, P., & Elliot, A. (2014). Red and romantic rivalry: Viewing
another woman in red
increases
perceived sexual receptivity, derogation, and intentions to mate-guard. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,
40, 1260-1269.
b) An overall summary of the key aspects of the paper
(e.g. idea being debated, hypotheses, participants, methods, results). This
should be complete enough that someone who hasn’t read the article would be
able to understand what was being evaluated, how it was being evaluated, why it
was being evaluated, and what the conclusions of the paper were and why.
In your critical evaluation
of the research paper, please make sure to answer the following questions:
c) In terms of the results, did the study provide support
for the hypotheses? Fully? Partially? What unexpected findings did this study
uncover?
d) Were there any weaknesses to the study’s methodology
that you can think of (e.g. biased sample, gender issues, participant or
experimenter bias, confounding variables)? Did the researchers suggest
alternate explanations that may explain the pattern of data that they found in
this study other than their theory?
e) What practical applications can you see from this
paper’s findings? How could it be used or potentially abused in the real world?
f) What other study could you design to answer questions
about this theory or hypothesis that the current study didn’t?
Papers
should be 3 pages, double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12pt Times New Roman font.
You may use headings if you wish to organize your review but your paper needs
to be written in complete sentences NOT POINT FORM. Papers are due by Friday, March 18.
***Note that handing in the same article summary, one
that bears an uncanny semblance to another student’s, or a summary that is
clearly a cut and pasted shortened version of the original article all
constitute PLAGIARISM. This is true regardless of whether two people are
handing in similar papers in the same class or in different ones. Papers on the same article will be compared and
cross-referenced within and between my classes. All students are expected to
comply with the university’s academic honesty policy found at http://web.usca.edu/asc/academic-integrity.dot.
This website clearly explains what constitutes/how to avoid plagiarism – “not
knowing” is not an excuse.
