Apa format. Create an abstract.

Writing Exercises Chapter 2: Review of the Literature

Writing Exercise (Research Design)

Based on your search results from Exercise 2.3, write one quantitative and one qualitative

abstract of two research studies found in your online search. For this exercise, please select a

research article rather than a nonempirical study. Do not choose overviews, summaries, meta-

analyses, theoretical papers, or book chapters, but rather articles in which the researchers directly

conducted and analyzed their own data. Use the guidelines provided in this chapter for the

elements to include in your literature abstracts.

Guidelines

Be sure to include all components below for each of the two abstracts. See the example

assignments for reference:

 Include an APA formatted reference to the research study. Use the APA materials for

guidance, particularly the Purdue OWL APA references section for the type of article

you are using.

 Ensure that the article is a report of a research study (instead of an essay, opinion

paper, typology, or synthesis of past research, as detailed in the above general

directions).

 What is the problem addressed in the study?

 What is the central purpose or aim of the study?

 Include information about the location(s), population(s), and sample(s).

 Summarize key results.

 Limit your abstract to no longer than a short paragraph (i.e., less than one page,

double spaced).