"My first paper shows no cognitive effects on the children although the parents may have different life styles".

Select two articles from professional journals in your discipline. (Social work) keep the topic and my first written paper in mind. The articles should be based on a study where data is collected and analyzed using some statistics. An article which is purely theoretical or descriptive would not apply for this assignment. The next step is to summarize the articles following the directions below. Each summary should be on a separate page and the summary should take 1 page or 1 ½ pages.

At the top of the page you will need to give a full bibliographic citation for each reference you summarize. It is best to list the bibliographic reference on the top of the page for each summary. List the bibliographic citations using APL format (American Psychological Association).

ORGANIZING THE SUMMARY:

The following are some points you should cover.

1. What is the major theory, thesis or theme of the study?

2. What is the primary hypothesis being tested? Hypotheses usually have an "If A, then B structure" to them.

3. What are the concepts that make up the hypotheses? For example, if the variable is Child Abuse, how does the author define child abuse?

4. How were the variables measured? How did the author measure the concept, e.g., Present/Absent, Absent/Rare/Frequent, etc.

5. If some of the variables come from other studies, what are they?

6. What is the sample used?

7. What are the primary statistical results? What kind of statistical test was used? Was a statistically significant difference found? Was the correlation between the two different variables strong or weak?

8. What does the author(s) conclude?