Part: Professional Journal Abstract Assignment
Go to the Excelsior College library website and perform an article search on an aspect of adolescent development you are interested in. The topic of the article must encompass at least one of the developmental tasks developed during adolescence. Identify a scholarly article from a professional journal where the author(s) describes the purpose, method, and results of a scientific investigation.
Read the article, and complete the following:
1. Identify your article by including a full APA style reference. Information about how to cite and reference in APA format can be found at the EC Library.
APA
(American Psychological Assoc.)
2. Briefly summarize the research article using the headings most common to such empirical reports. These include the Introduction, which generally states a rationale for the investigation and the purpose of the study. The introduction also reviews relevant research. Next is the Method section, which includes a description of the participants, instruments, and procedures. The Results section follows next, which addresses the significant findings of the study. Finallycomes the Discussion and Conclusion where the author(s) summarize(s) the findings and future directions.
Note that in writing an abstract you do not want to reproduce or summarize the entire article. Rather, you want to provide the most salient information, as succinctly as possible. Be sure to briefly explain how this relates to academic performance. If you use information directly from the article, you MUST properly cite the information by putting quotation marks around the words you are copying, followed by the page number in parentheses. Not doing this is a violation of the Excelsior College academic integrity policy.
3. Type your one-page abstract.
References
Anthony, E. K., Williams, L. R., &LeCroy, C. W. (2014). Trends in Adolescent Development Impacting Practice:
How Can We Catch Up?.Journal Of Human Behavior In The Social Environment, 24(4), 487-498. doi:10.1080/1