Introduction
 
          Why is this topic important?
          Why is this topic interesting?
          How does it relate to everyday life?

          Include a summary of 2 previous research articles
          For each article include a sentence about their method, results and conclusions.
          Relate their result to your current interest
 
          What is your objective with your experiment?
          Briefly state how you are going to do the task
          Use background articles to justify your hypothesis
          State predicted result based on your hypothesis
 
Discussion
 
          Remind reader of purpose of experiment/hypothesis
          State whether hypothesis supported
          Summarize data
          Discuss any peculiarities, unexpected findings or potential reasons for failures
          Relate findings to other work
          Summarize importance
          Make suggestions for future work

How to present an article summary to the class:

(Author names) were interested in the effects of (independent variable) on (dependent
variable).
Their hypothesis was...(if not intuitive say why they made this hypothesis)
To test this, they manipulated (independent variable) by ....
and measured ... (operational definition of the dependent variable)
SHOW US MATERIALS OR EXAMPLE OF TASK
They found... (SHOW US A GRAPHS or table of their results)
They interpreted these results to mean...

Plagiarism
            Plagiarism is the use of another persons ideas or words without due credit.
            First, the best way to avoid plagiarism is to take no notes while reading
                 -- or only key points while reading. Then after you are done reading, try to generate a
                 summary of the article IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
                 To practice this skill, you will give your summary to the class with only the briefest of
                 cheat sheets.
            Second, be sure to reference the ideas you get from reading.