Mary Jackson Pitts, Ph.D.
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Abstracts: Citation: Authors last name, first and middle initial if given. (Date). Title of article, Journal name, vol. no., page numbers. Purpose: May or may not be explicitly stated. Hypothesis: Stated within document. Use verbatim from document. Or research questions Methodology: Make sure to identify type of study: content analysis, experiment, survey. What was analyzed, who was analyzed, why chosen to analyze, how analyzed. Results: Each hypothesis or research question should be addressed in this section. There should be a reported result, with numbers, frequencies, percentages, etc, which establish support for a hypothesis, or an answer for a question. Comments: Comments should be from authors of articles and your own thoughts about the study. What did they do right and what did they do wrong? |