PSYC101 Journal Article Review Assignment - Part 1
Article Content Identification and Summary
Due: 11:55pm ET Sunday at the end of Week 3 of the 8-week course term
You may work on this assignment ahead of its deadline but may not submit it prior to Week 3.
Points Possible: 60
OVERVIEW: This is Part 1 of a two-part assignment designed to guide you through the steps of critically reviewing a published, evidence-based, scholarly journal article. This is an activity in which students engage frequently across their college careers in the completion of a variety of assignments. The article you review will be selected from the classroom Resources folder.
For Part 1 and Part 2 of this assignment, demonstration of foundational skills
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In the space below explain why you picked the article you selected for this assignment from the classroom Resources folder. Include a description of what about the focus of the article you chose captured your interest and why.
I chose “Smoking behavior and motivational flexibility in light and heavy smokers,” (Darlow & Lobel 2012) because I have never understood why people chose to smoke. You know that smoking is bad for your health when you start smoking and you know it is hard to quit so why do people even start smoking in the first place? This article captured my interest because I work with a lot of people that smoke and have been smoking for years and I always wondered what their motivation was to smoke. I have also always wondered if there were certain triggers that caused them to, “crave,” a cigarette. I think learning why people smoke and what dictates when they do it would be informational.
2. APA Citation Format
Show in the spaces below how you would source credit and reference-list (in APA formatting style), if you were writing a formal paper, the article you selected in the body of the paper and in a Reference list that would be attached to the end of the paper (for examples of how to correctly source credit in APA formatting style see the classroom Resources folder entitled, “APA
Using no more than 250 words, write a description of the object depicted in the two photographs.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
After answering the above question, show in the space below, under the heading References, how you would reference list the information in compliance with APA style rules as a reference (an article listing that would be attached to the end of one’s writing if one were using the article .
The purpose of this report is to conduct a critical appraisal of a published article.
I believe that Excel can enhance the younger generations math learning skills. I think that as long as the basic math skills of calculating numbers are learned and mastered first, then Excel can be of a great benefit in the development of the critical thinking skills that are necessary to implement all of the different formulas. I believe that this kind of critical thinking that is required to realize how to formulate the data is a very important skill to develop. I do think that the younger generations and everyone else's calculating skills become a "little rusty" because of continually relying on Excel to do all of the calculating instead of doing the math out longhand, but this can occur even through the use of calculators. I think Excel
The purpose of this paper is to provide you with written instructions on some of the basic guidelines with the new APA format (American Psychological Association, 2009). In addition, this paper is written in APA format to provide you with a visual image of how many aspects of papers should be written, from the title page, to headings, to references in text, and the reference page. This paper is not met to be a comprehensive explanation of APA format, but will provide the reader with the basics. So, please buy the manual and read it.
Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you interpret the statistical significance of a study.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
Instructions: Complete the following article summary using the articles you’ve chosen. You will complete one summary for each article. Not every article will have all of the sections mentioned below. If your article doesn’t have a particular section, indicate so in the appropriate area and move on to the next section. Submit either this completed worksheet or a word document where you’ve answered each of these questions; the choice is yours!!! IF you create your own word document, please mirror it after this worksheet, being sure to include all pertinent information and number the respective sections as outlined in this document.
What are the main ideas and/or issues of the article as it relates to the chosen topic?
This writing assignment should be in an essay format. It should use twoor more published news or academic articles which are less than a year old as cited references. In your essay, you should answer the following questions:
Of particular interest to me was the complicated nature of categorizing and defining self-forgiveness. What seemed to be a simple concept is, in fact, layered with multiple levels of complex considerations that must be addressed in order to properly define and diagram self-forgiveness.
Week 6 Assignment: Application: Critiquing Quantitative, Qualitative, or Mixed Methods Studies (due by Day 7 of Week 7)