You must have 5 source articles. Articles must be “original investigationsâ€ÂÂ, meaning not review articles, but actual studies with participants and methods. Case-studies are fine. The articles must be published between 2000 and 2009, and must be from peer-reviewed scientific journals (e.g., “Schizophrenia Research†or “Brain researchâ€ÂÂ). The 5 articles chosen must be on 2 different topics (CHILDHOOD SCHIZOPHRENIA AND SOCIAL FACTOS FOR SHIZOPHRENIA), and they must be different from the topic of your presentation. It is up to you to decide which topic will contain 2 articles and which 3. You may take the chapter titles of your textbook as your guide for topics, if you wish. If you are not sure whether an article you’ve selected is acceptable for this assignment, you may contact me by email, or come up to me after class (or make an appointment to see me).
You must specify what was the initial state of affairs (or what was the hypothesis, or the research question), what did the investigators do (methods), and what happened (results). Your critique must involve the methods and the author’s discussion of results. You will also need to discuss the articles in relation to each other. Think of it as a miniature literature review.
The whole assignment not including the abstracts must not be more than 3 pages, single-spaced, which means a little over ½ page per article (font size no smaller than 11, you may reduce the margins to no less than 3/4 inch). Your writing must be concise, understandable and logical. My suggestion is: do not write more than 300-400 words per one critique. Before each critique, you must identify your source article by a reference in an APA style. Please, make it stand out (i.e., its ok to make it bold, or bigger font even though it is not by the APA style). You must include the abstracts of the articles with your paper, at the end. Either a good photocopy or hand-typed is acceptable.
