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critical summaries

critical summaries

Format for critical summary
1. Your name
2. Full and correct citation of the paper thus:
 Author (year published) Paper title. Journal Name  volume: pages

3. Introduction: Context of study including the big question asked. What should the
reader know to appreciate this study?
4. Briefest summary of methods; only what’s needed to understand the results.
5. Key results.
6. What these results mean in terms of question asked or hypothesis tested.
7. How these results have changed our understanding and where scientists might go
from here.
Length
Critical summaries should be about 2 pages long, typed, double spaced, left-justified,
12 point Times New Roman.