: Your summary should be approximately 1-2 pages in length, double-spaced with 12- point font. If you need more than 2 pages to write your summary, that is fine; but please try to limit your summary to at most 3 pages. Learning to summarize effectively and write concisely is a good skill to practice!
Content of Summary:
1. What was the primary question(s) of interest? In other words, what motivated the study? What did they hope to gain by doing this research?
2. What is currently known about this topic? What does the prior research tell us in this area?
3. What did the researchers predict would happen? What were their hypotheses?
4. What was the methodology and procedure of each experiment? How did they measure what they wanted to measure?
