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7th Edition Research Article Activity This activity will help students learn how to find, cite, analyze, and summarize a scholarly research article. For each step of the activity, type your responses directly into the text fields provided, or copy the questions into your preferred word-processing program and answer them there. Complete this activity multiple times to help you write papers such as literature reviews. Notes for each part indicate where to find more information in the seventh edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition or on the APA Style website . Step 1: Finding a Research Article The best place to find a reliable research article is in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal accessed from a research database or platform, such as APA PsycNet, ProQuest, OvidSP, or EBSCOhost. Check with your university library to see which platforms and databases your school has access to and which ones are recommended for your subject area. APA journals are a good starting point for students of psychology. Many types of research articles are published in scholarly journals, including quantitative studies, qualitative studies, and mixed methods studies. In general, research articles have the following characteristics: • report original, or primary, research • include distinct sections that reflect the stages of the research process, usually the following sections in the following order: ° Introduction: description of the purpose of the investigation and the issues being reported, review of the background literature, and study objectives and/or hypotheses ° Method: full description of each step of the study, including the materials used, procedures followed, research design, and flow of participants ° Results (quantitative article): report of the results of statistical analyses conducted ° Findings (qualitative article): report of the findings using natural language ° Discussion: summary of the study, including any interpretation, limitations, and implications of the results or findings and next steps Chapters 1 and 3 of the Publication Manual provide descriptions of research articles and the sections often included in them, respectively.

Step 2: Citing a Research Article Once you have identified a research article on a topic of interest to you, create its reference list entry and in-text citation. The reference list entry allows readers to identify and retrieve the work, and the in-text citation serves as a simple and consistent way to refer to the article during the research and writing process. Reference List Entry To create a reference list entry, gather the following information: Author(s): Year of publication: Title of article: Journal name: Volume number: Issue number: Page range or article number: DOI: Or advance online publication (replaces volume/issue/pages): . journal article reference examples Now, use the information to create a reference list entry according to the Reference list entry (remember to apply hanging indent in your paper): In-Text Citations Use the author and year information from your reference list entry to create the in-text citations . Parenthetical in-text citation: Narrative in-text citation:

Step 3: Analyzing a Research Article Research articles are typically dense with information. The following questions provide an organized way for you to break down the parts of the research article and understand its purpose, methods, findings, and implications. Introduction 1. What is the topic of the article? 2. What is the study hypothesis (or hypotheses)? 3. What type of research was conducted (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods empirical study or meta-analysis) or what was the paper type (e.g., literature review, replication)? Method 4. How many people (or nonhuman animals) participated in the study? 5. Who were the participants? Describe from where they were recruited (e.g., college student subject pool) and all relevant personal characteristics (e.g., age, gender, race or ethnicity). 6. Where was the study conducted (e.g., online, lab, home, school, work, hospital, clinic)? 7. What tests or measures were collected (e.g., surveys, questionnaires)? 8. What analyses were conducted (e.g., correlation, t test, chi-square test, analysis of variance, thematic)?

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Results or Findings 9. What are the main results or findings from the study? 10. If there are tables and/or figures, what types of tables (e.g., demographic, correlation) and/or figures (e.g., bar graph, participant flow) are they? What important information do they convey? Discussion 11. What are the main conclusions of the research? 12. To whom do the results or findings apply? Can they be generalized to all people in all places, to certain subsets of people, or something else? 13. What are the strengths and limitations of the study? 14. What are areas for further investigation on this topic?

Step 4: Paraphrasing a Research Article Now that you have analyzed the article content, paraphrase important information from it in your own words. Keep each paraphrase about the Method, Results or Findings, and Discussion to one sentence if possible. Then use these paraphrases to write an article summary. Use this summary when writing your papers (e.g., literature reviews or response papers) to describe published research. Include one in-text citation (either parenthetical or narrative, as shown in Step 2) in the first sentence of your article summary. Method section paraphrase: Results or Findings section paraphrase: Discussion section paraphrase: Article summary: © 2022 Last updated April 14, 2022 More information on APA Style can be found in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.) and the Concise Guide to APA Style (7th ed.) . CITE THIS HANDOUT : American Psychological Association. (2022). APA Style research activity . https://apastyle.apa.org/ instructional-aids/APA-Style-research-activity.pdf We thank Emily Polacek, of Hinsdale South High School, for providing the inspiration for this content.

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