For the research articles you are using in your literature review, you will complete a summary that requires you to summarize in your own words the most important parts of the articles. Make sure the research articles you are using are full-length articles and not just abstracts. If a required item for the summary is not stated in the journal article, state this in your summary (but double-check this to make sure you are right).
For each of the journal articles, write a summary sheet with the following information. Head the summary sheet with the APA citation for that article. (Use the reference for the article that you were to weeks ago, that is your header, then follow with the following information.
Required information:
State the purpose of the journal article (i.e., hypothesis, objective, or research question)
What type of research design was used? (i.e., qualitative, quantitative, survey, evaluative, single-subject)
What did the study explore ?
Date data were collected (should not be more than 7 years previous)
What type of sampling method did the authors use? From what group did they get their sample? How many people participated in the study? What type of people were they?
What were the studys findings?
What were the study problems or limitations? What did you see? Which ones did the authors mention?
