U-3 ASSING (RM)

Assignment Guidelines The assignment must be written in Standard English and demonstrate superior organization, including a highly developed viewpoint and purpose that is clearly established and sustained. The communication of your thoughts must be highly ordered, logical, and unified, displaying exceptional content, organization, style, and mechanics (including the use of correct grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure). Literature Review For this assignment, you will practice finding articles in the library, finding information in articles, and writing an integrated summary. An integrated summary should not list the results of each article one by one but should instead integrate together the results, as you see in introductory sections of articles. Following this, you will identify further questions on the topic that could be explored. Assignment Directions Begin by identifying a psychology topic (ideally one of interest to you) to focus on. You will search for articles on this topic in the library. Examples of topics are: anxiety, happiness, optimism, pessimism, social media, music therapy, or equine therapy. You could also choose to focus on a mental health disorder, such as depression or substance abuse. Then, visit the Purdue Global Library Advanced Search and ensure that both “Full Text” and “Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals” are selected when you do a search on your topic. From the results list, choose five articles to read. Be sure that each article has the full text available. Using the Unit 3 Assignment Template, please respond to the following: Use the information from the full text of the five articles to complete the table on the template. Do not just rely on the abstract, and do not copy and paste from the articles, as that is plagiarism. You should fill out the table using your own words and include the following for each article: Provide the APA reference of the article. What type of article is it? How do you know what type of article it is? What are the main findings or information of the article? (Include population/sample if relevant.) Then, using the information from the five articles, write an integrated summary (brief literature review) that is at least 4–6 sentences. Lastly, after reading the five articles, identify what more might be interesting to know about the topic you selected that was not studied in the five articles. Write 1–2 sentences to answer.