article review

First thing’s first – have you done the Video Quizzes? We think this will help before you get started on this assignment.

How to Summarize Research Findings in Psychology Papers Video Quiz

APA Citations Video Quiz

After doing the Video Quizzes, you can start thinking about the next step in the PsychINFO assignment. This week, you will find one more article using PsychInfo on the psychology topic you chose. You are strongly encouraged to create a Research Worksheet for this article as well. You will then write a three page paper (using APA format) that reviews the two articles.

Questions to think about are:

What does prior research tell us about your topic?
What did your two articles find?
Why are the findings important? What would be the “take away” of the combined results?
By the way, have you gone onto the library page for anything other than PsychINFO? If you have, you’ve probably already seen what a valuable resource they are. They even created an entire page dedicated to Psychology (Links to an external site.). They also created a page all about APA-style papers (Links to an external site.) (might be a GREAT idea to check that out).

If you ever need any help, they are readily available (Links to an external site.) in many different formats. If you ever feel lost during this assignment, please try reaching out to me as well as them! They are very familiar with this assignment and have helped many students.

Suggested Outline for Literature Review Paper

Introduction:

Introduce your topic
Provide some statistics (if applicable) about your topic
Briefly explain the main idea of your paper and the direction you will go
Discuss Articles:

Discuss the INTRODUCTION and DISCUSSION sections of each article
Make sure to relate this information to your topic
This can be done in separate paragraphs for each article
Implications and Application:

This is the most important part of the literature review paper: Why are the findings important? What would be the “take away” of the combined results?
What is some future research that might improve this area of research?
Conclusion:

Make an overall conclusion about your topic
References:

List ALL of the references you used in APA-style