The course Research Article Review Paper assignment requires a review and critical examination of a single, peer-reviewed, evidence-based, published article covering scientifically conducted psychology-related research, which is the foundation of the discipline and practice of psychology.
This paper must be based on a single published article that reports on a study conducted by the author(s). Essay style, expert opinion and multi-study review articles are not permitted for this assignment. The article you review must be drawn from the APUS Online Library. The Library has tutorials and librarians available if you need assistance navigating it and conducting article searches, something you will need to use in future courses.
This assignment will be completed via a step-wise process of first identifying your article and attaching a pdf copy of it along with your paper topic proposal to the paper assignment tab by the end of Week 3 of the course. This step is NOT optional. If it is not completed with an instructions-compliant article selection by the Week 3 deadline, 50 points will be deducted from the 200 points possible for the full review paper due Week 6 with no options for submitting the topic proposal or the article pdf copy after the Week 3 deadline to avoid the point loss.
The required length of the review paper body (not counting title and Reference pages) is 5-6 pages. The paper must be properly source credited with APA formatted source citations both in the paper body and in a “Reference†page attached to the end. Correct source crediting means the words of the article author or authors are paraphrased (restated in the student’s own words, not copied), with a paper body source credit immediately following any paraphrasing and each source credited also listed in an attached Reference page. Quoting is not needed for this assignment (your instructor will be assessing the meaning you made of the material and the degree to which you analyzed and synthesized it with course readings and concepts, not how well you can quote words written by someone else). Only a brief sentence or two of quoting is permitted and they must be in quotation marks with a source credit immediately following. Papers not following the above rules are, by definition, plagiarized and will be assigned zero points per the course rule concerning academic integrity.
The paper body will begin with an introduction identifying the article’s primary focus and end with 2 conclusion pages describing how the research methods used might have impacted the research results, ideas for future research inspired by the article and the impact the article’s research results might have on the real world.
The full review paper will:
· Identify the article, the author(s) and the date of publication, both in the body of the paper and in an attached Reference list, and the focus of the research
· Describe the hypothesis of the study
· Describe how the study was conducted including
The population that was studied
The methodology used (i.e. naturalistic observation, experiment, case study, survey, etc).
How the data was collected and analyzed
· Describe the results of the study
· Discuss concepts, theories, and principles included in the course textbook to show synthesis of what has been learned in the course related to the information in the article reviewed.
· End with a 2-page conclusion which
Reviews the way the research was conducted and potential impact on results (e.g. problems with the study methodology that might have affected its validity and/or generalizability).
Describes three future research ideas inspired by the article
Describes the potential impact the research findings might have in the ‘real world’ lives of everyday people.
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