Research articles published in journals follow some basic conventions that are designed to make them easy for researchers and students to read. Using BOTH the Gosnell (2019) and the Soicher and Gurung (2017) articles, your goal is to identify the basic structure of research articles. For each component, answer the questions below. Type your answers using 12-point Times New Roman Font WITHIN this Word document and then submit it on Classes under Activities ˃ Assignments. Abstract (10 points) • In less than 50 words, describe the purpose of the abstract. Introduction (usually not labeled, but it always comes after the abstract; 10 points) • In less than 50 words, describe the purpose of the introduction. • The research hypotheses can almost always be found near the end of the introduction. Identify at least one hypothesis from each article. Method (10 points) • In less than 50 words, describe the purpose of the methods section. • In the methods section, you will see that all of the articles contain similar information. Identify three different types of information that is common across both articles. Results (10 points) • In less than 50 words, describe the purpose of the results section. • If you don’t understand much of what is written in this section, that is okay! This section is written for fellow researchers, not students new to psychological research. Copy/paste (use quotation marks!) one sentence from the results section of each article that made little or no sense to you. Discussion (10 points) • In less than 50 words, describe the purpose of the discussion section. References (10 points) • In less than 50 words, describe the purpose of the references section. • Choose one reference from each article that, based on the title alone, you might be interested in reading. How would you go about getting that article?
