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Article Summary Form

Use the form modeled in class and posted below to review and summarize 5 research articles that are relevant to the manuscript you are preparing for this class. Post or paste your summaries here, making sure that your name is inside the file and that the summaries are clearly marked. Please follow the APA style guideline.

With adding the main purpose of summarizing these articles together

Complete APA Citation:1

Category Entry

RELEVANCE How does the study apply to your manuscript? What will you use it to do?
PARTICIPANTS Describe the participants generally.
STUDY METHOD What was the method?: _____ ethnography _____ experiment _____ grounded theory _____ participatory action research _____ phenomenology _____ other Describe the method in one sentence.
STUDY PURPOSE State the purpose/topic of the study in one sentence.
DATA SOURCES _____ participant observation _____ interviews _____ historical _____ focus groups _____ other Describe the data sources used to answer the research question.
CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS What did the study conclude? What were the implications of the findings?
WEAKNESSES What did the study fail to do? What were the limitations/delimitations of this study?
STRENGTHS What did this study accomplish? What did it add to the literature? What do we know now that we didn’t know before this study? What was done well?

3-4 sentence summary:

Complete APA Citation: 2

Category Entry

RELEVANCE How does the study apply to your manuscript? What will you use it to do?
PARTICIPANTS Describe the participants generally.
STUDY METHOD What was the method?: _____ ethnography _____ experiment _____ grounded theory _____ participatory action research _____ phenomenology _____ other Describe the method in one sentence.
STUDY PURPOSE State the purpose/topic of the study in one sentence.
DATA SOURCES _____ participant observation _____ interviews _____ historical _____ focus groups _____ other Describe the data sources used to answer the research question.
CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS What did the study conclude? What were the implications of the findings?
WEAKNESSES What did the study fail to do? What were the limitations/delimitations of this study?
STRENGTHS What did this study accomplish? What did it add to the literature? What do we know now that we didn’t know before this study? What was done well?

3-4 sentence summary:

Complete APA Citation:3

Category Entry

RELEVANCE How does the study apply to your manuscript? What will you use it to do?
PARTICIPANTS Describe the participants generally.
STUDY METHOD What was the method?: _____ ethnography _____ experiment _____ grounded theory _____ participatory action research _____ phenomenology _____ other Describe the method in one sentence.
STUDY PURPOSE State the purpose/topic of the study in one sentence.
DATA SOURCES _____ participant observation _____ interviews _____ historical _____ focus groups _____ other Describe the data sources used to answer the research question.
CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS What did the study conclude? What were the implications of the findings?
WEAKNESSES What did the study fail to do? What were the limitations/delimitations of this study?
STRENGTHS What did this study accomplish? What did it add to the literature? What do we know now that we didn’t know before this study? What was done well?

3-4 sentence summary:

Complete APA Citation:4

Category Entry

RELEVANCE How does the study apply to your manuscript? What will you use it to do?
PARTICIPANTS Describe the participants generally.
STUDY METHOD What was the method?: _____ ethnography _____ experiment _____ grounded theory _____ participatory action research _____ phenomenology _____ other Describe the method in one sentence.
STUDY PURPOSE State the purpose/topic of the study in one sentence.
DATA SOURCES _____ participant observation _____ interviews _____ historical _____ focus groups _____ other Describe the data sources used to answer the research question.
CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS What did the study conclude? What were the implications of the findings?
WEAKNESSES What did the study fail to do? What were the limitations/delimitations of this study?
STRENGTHS What did this study accomplish? What did it add to the literature? What do we know now that we didn’t know before this study? What was done well?

3-4 sentence summary:

Complete APA Citation:5

Category Entry

RELEVANCE How does the study apply to your manuscript? What will you use it to do?
PARTICIPANTS Describe the participants generally.
STUDY METHOD What was the method?: _____ ethnography _____ experiment _____ grounded theory _____ participatory action research _____ phenomenology _____ other Describe the method in one sentence.
STUDY PURPOSE State the purpose/topic of the study in one sentence.
DATA SOURCES _____ participant observation _____ interviews _____ historical _____ focus groups _____ other Describe the data sources used to answer the research question.
CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS What did the study conclude? What were the implications of the findings?
WEAKNESSES What did the study fail to do? What were the limitations/delimitations of this study?
STRENGTHS What did this study accomplish? What did it add to the literature? What do we know now that we didn’t know before this study? What was done well?

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