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Paper Instructions:

An article summary should briefly summarize, in your own words, the article research question and how it was addressed in the article. Below are some things to include in your summary. 
•    The summary itself will include the following: (Note – if the article involved more than one experiment, you can either choose to focus on one of the studies specifically or summarize the general design for all of the studies)
1.    Description of the overall purpose of the study (this can be as little as one sentence, and no more than 2 sentences)
2.    Type of study (Was it experimental or correlational? How do you know?)
3.    Variables: 
1.    What were the independent and dependent variables? Be specific with these. Define the terms independent and dependent variable and make sure to identify how they are operationally defined in the article)
4.    Participants: 
1.    How many were there? How were they recruited?
5.    Method: 
1.    Was there random assignment to groups? 
2.    What did the participants do in the study?). 
3.    How was data collected (online, in person, archival data, etc.)
6.    Note the findings (What were their results/findings?). Don’t include the statistical analyses that they did, instead, focus on the overall interpretation for these findings.