Format: Please provide full section numbers and the exact titles that are
provided for all numbered sections.
Name of student:
Course name:
Date:
Topic Title:
Section I. Identify your primary source.
Simply name in this section the primary source scientific experiment or
study you are proposing to critique, providing here its correct bibliographical
information. (Do not include here any summary of that primary source or
summarize any other information from other sources.)
Section II. Explain the relevance of your chosen topic.
Summarize within 4 or less sentences your topic’s importance to the
scientific community and to society.
Section III. Demonstrate that you have researched the topic on the
internet.
As background on your topic, summarize in this section supplementary
secondary current general opinions about this topic that you gather from 2
internet sources. . (Provide citations within your answers, so that the reader
knows which ideas are yours and which are somebody else’s work.)
Section IV. Demonstrate that you have researched the topic within
additional scholarly journals (do not include your primary source}.
As background on your topic, summarize in this section supplementary
secondary current general opinions about this topic you gather from 2
scholarly journals. (Provide citations within your answers, so that the reader
knows which ideas are yours and which are somebody else’s work.)
Section V. Identify in APA style your supplementary resources.
Provide an APA style bibliography of the secondary sources you used for this
Summary Paper, including your 2 internet sources and your 2 scholarly
journals.
Section VI. Critique your secondary sources.
Briefly critique your 4 secondary sources in terms of their
strengths/credibility/validity, utilizing the critical thinking concepts you
learned from our course.
Section VII. Describe what your primary source attempted to do.
Summarize, but do not critique here, your primary source
study/experiment’s goals, procedures, methods, control groups, results and
conclusions.
Section VIII. Critique your primary source.
Write a Critical Analysis of your primary source study/experiment’s validity
in terms of its goals, procedures, methods, control groups, results and
conclusions, utilizing the critical thinking concepts you learned from our
course.
Section IX. Suggest further research.
Summarize your suggestions for further research by the scientific community
on your topic, and justify to your reader why you chose these suggestions.
Section X. Bibliography
List, in APA style, all the sources you used for your total project, including the
primary source as well as, once again, your supplementary resources.