Summary of the purpose of the study

Research question(s)

Methodology

Results
Conclusion
Critical evaluation of the paper: THIS IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT! As a scientist, you want to approach the article with total skepticism. Very few articles are perfect. Consider the representativeness of the participants, the adequacy of the research measures, and the logic of the entire paper.  Do the conclusions answer the research question?  Be as critical as you can.
An APA Title Page, APA Headings, and an APA reference are required. Don’t forget, you can go back to the APA Videos and Tutorials in the APA 7th edition module and watch how to format a title page and how to use Headers. I only use Header 1 and Header 2 because there is not much depth in an article summary. 
Turnitin is also turned on for this assignment. It detects the use of AI resources also! 
The summaries should be in your own words. Do not use quotes. Remember, this is a summary; you should not be providing a lot of detail but rather synthesizing what the authors did. Just tell me what you read, what you learned, and how the study could be improved or what you would add or do differently. 

A special note: Reading journal articles is hard. They are designed for an audience that knows something about the topic or methods. As new psychology students, you don’t have that knowledge (that is why you are in school!). So be sure to allow plenty of time to read and understand the paper. Only when you understand the paper will you be able to summarize the paper. Don’t get discouraged; every psychologist started precisely where you are now. The only way to get better at reading empirical journal articles is to practice.  I have included a sample paper as a Resource in the Module.  It has errors,, but the tone and thoroughness are where I expect a student paper to be.