Assignment instructions on article review
Title Page with reference in APIA style – 10 The assignment is to select one article pertaining to the topic given for the unit. You will read the article and answer the questions below. This assignment must be typed, Arial, 12 font, and double-spaced. A copy of the article must be submitted with the review. Points will be deducted if it is not. The article review should have three main parts: ·A heading which provides all the necessary bibliographic information about the article to include author name(s), year, title, journal name, volume, issue, page numbers ·A summary which outlines the article and reports briefly on its purpose and overall argument ·A critique which uses knowledge of the field to evaluate the quality of the article Here are some questions that you may try to answer in your report: Summary What is the hypothesis being tested? What predictions did the author(s) make? Why is this hypothesis interesting? What species/participants did the author(s) examine? What methods did they use to test the hypothesis? What results were obtained? What conclusions did the author(s) draw? This must be in your own words. Do not just quote the authors’ results section. Tell me what their results mean in plain English. Critique What other questions could the author(s) have posed? What are the long-term implications of this study, if any? How could it be improved, if at all? What implications do you think the study will have for the field of biology? Your review should does not need to be in the form of an essay. Addresses the questions above with one or more paragraphs. That is, do not just answer questions with one sentence. This article review should not be merely summaries. You should think about what you read and write a cohesive discussion of the research article that addresses the questions above. Do not directly copy sentences from texts, scientific papers, or other sources without proper citations.