Multitasking Literature Review: Formal Writing and APA style

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Directions: On the next page you will find a sample mini literature review with several errors; for the purposes of APA style, this is considered a “student paper”. (This is not an actual paper submitted by a real student; it was fabricated for the purposes of this assignment). Assume the fictional “writer” intended to follow APA style and write in a formal tone appropriate for scholarly work. However, the writer was not successful in either endeavor. Your job is to identify and correct the APA style and formal writing mistakes using the resources above.
To complete this assignment, you will do the following:
1. Identify APA style errors – highlight in yellow, anything that is not in APA style
2. Correct APA style errors – type the correction in brackets “[…]” directly after the error
3. Identify formal writing errors – highlight in blue, all informal writing errors
4. Correct formal writing errors – type the correction in brackets directly after the error
*Note. IF the error is due to spacing or omission (and therefore cannot be highlighted), place a statement describing what is wrong/missing in brackets as close to the error as you can; also include a correction when possible. To receive full points for these errors & corrections, you must highlight the bracketed statement/correction in yellow or blue (as indicated above).
Example prior to completing 1-4 above:
Dr. Clarice Smith (2018) found that student’s motivation for taking a course was directly related to their success in that course. Her study titled “Optimizing Students’ Performance” really applies to my life.
Same example after identifying and correcting APA style and formal writing errors:
Dr. Clarice Smith [Smith] (2018) found that students’ motivation for taking a course was directly related to their success in that course. Her study titled “Optimizing Students’ Performance” [omit title] really applies [is applicable] to my life [many students’ lives][missing citation; citation that provides support for the corrected statement needs to be inserted here].
Grading: This assignment is worth 20 points. Your score will be based on (1) the number of errors you correctly identify, and (2) the number of errors you accurately correct. For your “corrections” to count, any information or correction within the brackets must be accurate.
Criteria Scoring
Correctly identify APA style errors 0 – 5 points
(½ point per correct identification, up to 5 pts max)
Accurately correct APA style errors 0 – 5 points
(½ point per accurate correction, up to 5 pts max)
Correctly identify formal writing errors 0 – 5 points
(½ point per correct identification, up to 5 pts max)
Accurately correct formal writing errors 0 – 5 points
(½ point per accurate correction, up to 5 pts max)
Multitasking Literature Review
Anita Aye
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
PSYC 211
Dr. Scaletti
February 17, 2020

Literature Review
According to researchers, the efficiency of multitasking is often debated. In their study titled Can students really multitask? An experimental study of instant messaging while reading, researchers Laura Bowman, Laura Levine, Bradley Waite, and Michael Gendron (2010) found that doing one thing at a time is way better than doing two things at once (AKA “multitasking”). They concluded that “frequent multitaskers reported paying less attention to lectures and performed more poorly than others in the class” (Bowman, L. L., et al., 2010). Multiple studies that Dr. Jim Taylor, Ph.D. (2011) talks about in his article titled Technology: Myth of Multitasking, state similar info. about multitasking. We need to know the answer to this question because students might be wasting precious time.
The realities of multitasking are discussed (Taylor, 2011 and Bowman et al., 2010). The main research question being asked by Bowman, Levine, Waite, and Gendron is how well college students can comprehend an article while instant messaging during reading, before reading, or not IMing at all. This is important because many college students, including myself and all my friends too, falsely believe that multitasking is totally helpful. The study concluded that receiving messages while reading does not prevent students from comprehending the material, but really takes way more time to learn (Bowman et., al. 2010, p. 230). The take home message is that multitasking is not good.
Believe it or not, the same thing was said by Taylor. He states that people who supposedly engage in multitasking are actually serial tasking, which means they are kinda just shifting attention between activities. Both authors say that switching from one task to another takes a long time and doing stuff would be faster if done one at a time. Bowman et al. (2010) and Taylor (2011) agree that a student’s best performance occurs when there are no distractions, so we just shouldn’t do it.
Bibliography
Taylor, Jim. (2011). Myth of Multitasking: Is multitasking really more efficient? Psychology Today Online Magazine.
Bowman, L., Levine, L., Waite, B., and Gendron, M. (2010). Can students really multitask? An