SUMMARIZE (6) SCIENTIFI RESEARCH DOCUMENTS
II. Read six scientific papers posted at the end of this assignment (please scroll down to see them), and write a 300-600-word summary of each paper with APA in-text citations and references. This means that you need to produce six separate summaries, but please put them all in one MS Word file.
Please include the following three items for each of the six summaries:
1) Type the title of the paper that you will be summarizing at the top of your summary
2) Type a summary of the paper (300-500 words per summary) that addresses the following points:
a) What question the authors aimed to investigate at the outset of their study described in the paper.
b) What value or new information the study might add to the existing literature on the topic investigated in the study.
c) What methods the authors of the paper used to conduct their study.
d) What the authors’ results and conclusions were.
e) What were the limitations of the study described in the paper.
3) Type an APA reference for the paper you just summarized right below the summary.
The summaries must be written solely by summarizing and/or paraphrasing the information from the papers. No direct quotations are allowed. In addition, you must make sure that you convey an understanding of the papers in your summaries, which means that you first need to understand them as much as possible. I encourage you to use some of the techniques from my lecture to help with this task.
In each summary, you must use an in-text APA citation in the very first sentence that refers to the specific paper that you will be summarizing. If you are not going to cite any other sources in the same summary, then you don’t need to repeat the in-text citation for the main paper throughout the same summary, because it will be clear to the reader that the whole summary refers to that one paper. However, if you are going to cite other sources in your summaries, then you need to cite all of these sources in the text, and repeat the original in-text citation for the main paper each time you refer to it again after mentioning another source.
The same rule applies to the reference(s) at the end of each summary: if you are only going to refer to the main paper throughout a summary, then all you need to post at the end is a reference to that paper. If you are going to use other sources in addition to that, you will need to include references to them too.
As for formatting requirements, please double-space the whole assignment. No title page or abstract is required for this assignment because this is not a formal research paper. The point here is to help you master the reading and citation skills that you will need for more advanced assignments in this course.
Here are the six papers you need to summarize for this assignment: