Professional Documents
Culture Documents
A summary is a
significant reduction
of the original source
• Determine the main idea of the piece you
have read or viewed.
• Write one sentence that captures that main
idea.
• As you read or view, note the major areas
of evidence that the piece provides.
• Then write one sentence that
communicates the gist of each of these
major areas.
To avoid plagiarizing, do not look at the
source while you are composing the
summary
Use what you remember from the
reading or viewing
Write the summary in your own words
After you have written the summary, you
can revisit the source to confirm facts
Do not express an opinion about the
source. Neither disagree
Introduction
Procedures
Findings
Conclusions
Personal comments
Give a brief introduction (1-3 sentences) to
give the necessary background to the study
and state its purpose (in your own words).
Why was the study conducted? What was it
about?
Inyour own words, describe the specifics of
what this study involved.
Who were the subjects?
How were they grouped?
What did they have the subjects do?
Under what conditions?
For how long?
What was measured?
What was being compared?
Inyour own words discuss the major findings
and results. How useful or significant is this
(what did the author(s) say about it?)
Inyour own words, summarize the
researchers’ conclusions.
What was the major outcome of the study?
Give your reaction to the study? Such as:
What did you learn from the study?
How might you apply the results in a future
teaching/coaching/clinical application?
Explain how this study might relate to the
lab, lab topic, and/or your project.
The article summary must be in this exact
format with these headings (underlined in
above box).
Any information which is word for word from
the article, must be in quotation marks with
the page number identified, for example: (p.
38), otherwise it is considered plagiarized.
With the exception of perhaps one or two
sentences, the abstract should be in your
own words anyway.
Pub Med Journal
BMC Journal
Pediatric Nursing Journal
Cinahl Journal/EBSCO
Abstract (Summary)
Keywords
Introduction
Methods (Experimental Details)
Results
Discussion
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
The end of the Intro is a good place to state:
Objectives, or
Hypothesis, or
Research Question
Most often done badly
Most feared by young researchers
Say what’s good about your work
Say what’s bad (limitations)
Compare to other published work
Speculate
Criticise other work
How do you choose which journal to submit
to?
Impact factors
Reviewers
Readership
Turnaround time