Depression Is To Diabetes As Antidepressants Are To Insulin (PSY 120 AND 121)

Instructions for Summarizing Research Articles
Summaries should be a maximum length of 1 typewritten page (double-spaced), or 1 ½ handwritten pages (double-spaced). Each summary must be presented on a separate page.
At the top of each page on which a summary begins, the following information must be present:
- your full name
- your student number and NSID
- your instructor’s name, class and class section number
- the title of the article you are summarizing
Summaries must be in paragraph form (point form will be marked as ‘fail.’) In two or three paragraphs, you are to answer the following questions:
 
Why did the researchers do their study? In other words, what did they hope to find or accomplish?
What did the researchers actually find and how did they reach their conclusion?
What was the relevance or importance of what the researchers found? Indeed, was there any importance to what the researchers found?
If the article you chose is a review article (i.e., the authors did not conduct an experiment), summarize the article highlighting the major points.
All summaries are graded as pass/fail. Each summary that is graded as pass will count as one credit toward your maximum of 5 credits for your Psychology class. There are four ways you can fail a research article summary:
If you miss the point of the article completely.
If you have copied the article’s abstract or any part of the article (plagiarism).
If you and another student submit identical summaries. You cannot submit the same article for multiple classes (i.e., PSY 120 AND 121).
If your summaries are not handed in by the deadline.