Write one paragraph, in your own words, summarizing what you learned about this topic, what you found most important and why, what aspects you found puzzling, troubling, or unclear, your general conclusions, and questions you now have about this topic. Step 1: State one question that you have identified about this topic. (sexual assault & alcohol abuse in college example:1. How do people test for date rape drugs in drinks? 2. How do date rape drugs and alcohol affect our bodies?) Step 2: Using Google Scholar, locate 3 different journal articles that address your question. “These must be from scholarly journals. ” These articles should have been published within the last ten years. Step 3: For each of the articles, answer the following, in your own words, list format: Give the APA citation. Last name, First Initials for each author. (Year of publication). Article title. Journal name, Volume number(Issue number), page numbers. What question(s) were the authors investigating in this study? What did the researchers do to study this question? What did the authors find (major results of the study)? What was the authors’ interpretation of their findings? Step 4: Reflecting on all three articles, write one paragraph, in your own words, summarizing 1. what you learned about this topic, 2. what you found most important and 3. why, 4 what aspects you found puzzling, troubling, or unclear, 5your general conclusions, and 6 questions you now have about this topic.
