Category: Writing Styles

JOURNAL ARTICLE SUMMARY INSTRUCTIONS
You will complete 1 Journal Article Summary that relates to the Social Psych Topic each module/week for modules/weeks 2-3 & 5-7. The idea is to find research that relates to each weeks topic to better understand the topic, and to get a better understanding of the research related to each topic. To find these potential articles, you can search google scholar, one of the psychology databases (i.e. PSYC INFO), or look in a specific journal (i.e. Journal of Applied Psychology). **Please dont summarize the attached journal articles for each week.
You will read the article and then summarize the article in approximately 350 words or more. Remember, these summaries are to help you to remember the most important aspects of each article so you have 5 article summaries on social psychological research that can help you both in this course and in future research and coursework.
Make sure that you include:
–    Title and authors of the article
–    Why the article was written (introduction), and what it attempts to find or answer (hypothesis section)
–    How it answers the question or questions it proposes (method section)
–    What the article found (results)
–    What the results actually mean (discussion)
Be careful to ensure that your answers to the above information make sense to you, as you want to be able to develop the skill of making complex/academic information easy to understand to non-academic people and I eventually will be reading these. Make sure to explain any complex ideas in plain language, and dont assume I as the reader know what you are talking about. Summarize these articles succinctly but yet thoroughly. Each Paper Article Summary must be at least 350 words. Refer to the Paper Article Summary Example for guidance on this assignment.

Submit your Paper Article Summaries 2-3 & 5-7 by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on the Sunday of the assigned module/week.

You will complete 1 Reading Summary This summary must be at least (1.5-2 pages) and must synthesize the information learned from all reading material each module/week. You will integrate the knowledge learned from the content in the Reading & Study folder in each module/week.

For instance, the textbook will contain a broad range of content. Use the text to navigate the summary, but then explore specific issues from the text that the theories book and articles discuss. All information you pull from each of the required reading sources for that module/week must be cited in current APA style. Feel free to use outside sources as well, but you are not required to do so.
Each summary must include an integration of the Kassin et al. text chapters, Chadee theory chapters, and two journal articles related to each module/week.

The summary should include an intro paragraph, three paragraphs each with a major theme supported by several of the sources and a closing paragraph. The intro paragraph should be an overall summary of the module/week material (1-2 paragraphs). Then you should include (1-2 paragraphs) for 3-5 of the major points that span across all sources for the module/week. Each of these paragraphs should have a minimum of 2 SOURCES cited in each paragraph. **This is to ensure that you are integrating the information, rather than just summarizing each source independently. And lastly, you should include a concluding paragraph that ties together the major themes you introduced in the body of the summary.