Article Assignment Please carefully read the directions below in order to correctly complete these extra credit assignments. Inadequate article summaries and critiques will not be accepted for credit. (Note: If you hand in inadequate work early, I will be able to provide you with feedback to improve the assignment for credit; if you hand in on the last day, you will not have time to receive feedback and improve for credit). What to include: -Each article summary and critique should be 1-2 pages (12 pt. Times New Roman font, double spaced, 1” margins). -At the end of the article summary and critique, please provide the reference information in APA style. -You will also need to hand in a copy of the article that you have reviewed. Step 1) Select an empirical journal article in the field of psychology. The journal articles must be from either the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology or the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Articles should be at least 10 pages. Step 2) Read the article. Identify key points: the research topic, hypotheses, what was done, the results, and how the experimenter interpreted the results. Circling these points will help you find them when you write. Do your best to understand the article. Write notes in the margin and use a highlighter to mark important sections. Talk about the article with others and see if you can explain it to somebody who has not read the paper. Spend about half your work time for this assignment here. Step 3) Write your summary and critique. For each article, you must properly cite the article in APA format. Two guides to citations and references using APA 6th edition style can be found on Blackboard under “Course Content” in the folder titled “APA Style.” This assignment will include a summary and a critique (detailed below). Summary: The summary should include the purpose of the research, hypotheses, independent and dependent variables under study, methods, and results. The summary should be a condensed version of the article rather than an article abstract. Abstracts are more concise and reflect the authors` decisions about information that should be mentioned. Avoid "lifting" sentences or paraphrasing from the article or the abstract. Use your own words. In this section, you should include: -Background: Why was the research conducted? Why is the research question interesting/important? -Purpose of the study: What was the hypothesis? -Methods: Who participated? How many subjects/participants? What were the dependent and independent variables? What measures and/or materials were used? What was the procedure? -Results: Describe the key findings (note that I am not interested in the statistical findings and numbers, but rather what the results show in words). Did the results support the hypothesis? -Discussion: What implications do these results have? Were there any limitations or future directions? Critique: This is where you give your reaction to and opinion of the article. For example, you may object to the sample or procedure the researcher used and/or you might have found that the article helped you to better understand a specific issue or problem. In this section you might also include: -Provide an explanation of what interested you in the article. -Describe what you liked or disliked about the article. -Describe anything you did not understand. -Discuss your thoughts about the results and conclusions. -Explain what you would do differently if it were your research project. -Discuss any cautions you would use about the results of the experiment ========================= I sent in my order saying i needed one article with 2 written pages and then realized that I need 3 articles each one written page for them. Is there any way I can go about changing this order and adding one more page