write a summary and analyze
Drs. Emilio Ferrer, Rand Conger, & Kali Trzesniewski: Harris, M. A., Gruenenfelder-Steiger, A. E., Ferrer, E., Donnellan, M. B., Allemand, M., Fend, H., . . . & Trzesniewski, K. H. (2015). Do parents foster self-esteem? Testing the prospective impact of parent closeness on adolescent self-esteem. Child Development, 00, 1-19.
ResearchPaperTemplate
Name
Student ID #
Date
Class you would like the credit to go toward
Name of Research Article
Introduction Briefly summarize the authors reasons for writing the journal article.
Do not list all the author names as a way of padding your word count. For example, instead of In this paper by Block, Shestowsky, Segovia, Goodman, Schaaf, and Alexander you should write: In this paper by Goodman
.. This is because Dr. Goodman is the faculty member from xx university (the faculty members name will be bolded in the article list).
Method Briefly describe study methods.
Results
and Conclusions Briefly summarize study results and author conclusions Reactions This is the most important part of your paper.
The reaction section of your paper should be the longest part of your paper. Do not re-summarize the results. In this section you should write your reactions to the paper, for example things you
learned or found interesting, or how what you read relates to your classes(psc1 general psychology).
Reference Include the entire reference for the paper you read here. It should be APA style, and you can copy & paste it from the list of research papers online. You should NOT copy all the references that are listed in the article you read. You ONLY need to include the reference for the paper you are summarizing.
summary Example:
Block, S. D.,Shestowsky, D., Segovia, D., Goodman, G. S., Schaaf, J. M., & Alexander, K. W. (2011). Adults ability to discern childrens true and false memory reports. Law and Human Behavior, 36, 365-374.