How short a Psychology Section

Regardless of the level of critiquing the essence or a journal article, a student must meet in psychology is a general assignment. It will be encountered again, already an important skill to master. If you are in the field of psychology, these skills will help you tell the good from the bad research, improving the performance of your own research. Sometimes you a short version of the story is a piece that will be asked to summarize the article; More often, a summary will also need to create some form of criticism.



Select an article review. Your instructor or professor is provided for you to review a specific article, you must choose one of your own. Journal of Psychology in the area that interests you most you can search for your school library. Search for articles in the field for the most common one is the index of journal articles, abstracts and references that will help guide you, which is PyscINFO.

 Selected or articles that have been assigned at least three times. At first you just skim the article and get a general overview of the study abstract, introduction and discussion sections can read. Pay attention to the methods and results sections, read the paper in its entirety again. Finally, the researchers asked the question about what is or is not working, with an eye for a third time to read the paper. Provided by the author of the article, please consider alternative explanation for the results.
 
 Your Review / Overview Create an outline. As with all papers, create an outline that will help keep you focused and organized in your writing. Your outline may include the following headings: Study rationale, assumptions, methods, sample, results, major results, and critique.
 
 The main point of the study. The rationale section, the researcher was why it is important to study, summarize the objectives of the existing literature on how they felt the need to add. Includes research hypotheses, the paper said that the list of precise estimates. A brief review of the research design (test, correlational studies, observational study) to identify the type, and a brief statement about the research should be conducted. Participants (or monitoring), including the number of sample characteristics, providing information about their basic demographics, and how they are recruited into the study. The results presented in section briefly summarize the results should be based on the assumptions. Finally, research and summarize the results.