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As you collect sources for your research

essay, you will need to summarize the


research that you find

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

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