Assignment

•Choose 4 articles on your paper topic (from the list you submitted or new ones that you found since then)

•The articles must be research studies where data was collected. (Theory pieces are fine for your paper, but not for this assignment.)

◦This assignment is worth 30 points

Summarize the design of each of the articles by answering the following questions using the terminology from your reading ◾Was the study correlational, experimental, or some combination of both?

◾How do you know?

◾Was it done in the laboratory or the field?

◾What conclusions can be drawn from the study?

◾What conclusions cannot be drawn from the study?

◾What are some strengths and limitations of the research design?

◾Name two areas for future research based on the article (either those listed in the paper or your own ideas)

Plagiarism

Three common types of plagiarism you need to be aware of as a student:

•Recycling a paper; “double-dipping”; self-plagiarism: Reusing a paper you have written for a previous course

•Copying directly from a source without proper quotations or paraphrasing: When you try to pass something off as your own work

•Not using proper citations

According to the Academic Integrity and Academic Dishonesty Handbook:

Your paper should have at least 80% of your own original thought, not “borrowed, paraphrased [or] quoted” from material pulled from the Internet, articles, journals, books, etc. Your thoughts, not someone else’s!