APA Article Review

My Professor's Instruction: APA Article Review (Example Template) Note: Do not include this note in your paper. This assignment is an article review. You will be reviewing the article found on blackboard. It is to be set up exactly like this. I have given you the source below. No need to change it. Read the article a couple of times and then answer the questions provided in the format provided. This assignment will be turned in through Turnitin via the blackboard link. Length is 2 pages double spaced. No word count. Source Son, C., Hegde, S., Smith, A., Wang, X., & Sasangohar, F. (2020). Effects of COVID-19 on College Students’ Mental Health in the United States: Interview Survey Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(9), e21279. https://doi.org/10.2196/21279 Problem In this paragraph you will discuss what the researchers are investigating? What is this article addressing? What is the purpose? Why is the topic important, what has already been done, and what is/are the researcher’s hypothesis? Or to say it another way, what are the researchers investigating? You will use complete sentences such as this one to write about this section. The “problem” is usually laid out in the opening remarks or paragraphs of the article. Remember to use APA style in citing your sources. The first time you cite the source it will look like: Son, Hegde, Smith, Wang, and Sasangohar (2020) believe that COVID-19… After the first citation you will then transition to just using the first authors last name. For example, Son et al., (2020) report this is the first large scale study of COVID-19 effects on college students. OR This is the first large scale study of the effects of COVID-19 on college student mental health (Son et al., 2020). Notice these are not direct quotations, but are paraphrased versions (my words) about what the article says. That is APA style. Methods In this section you will discuss the research method used. Go back to ch. 1 in the textbook if you need a refresher. Again use complete sentences. Is the research experimental, correlational, or descriptive? Next discuss the participants used in this study. Who are they? How are the participants recruited? How are they assigned? Again use complete paragraphs like this one in explaining. Procedures This is the section where you talk about what the researchers actually did with the participants. What type of materials were they given? Were the participants given an assessment? What type of assessment was it? What was the name of the assessment? What was the assessment supposed to assess for? Again use complete sentences in explaining/discussing your points. Sometimes the Procedures section is combined with the Methods. Findings/Results In this section you will describe what happened? Sometimes this section is labeled the “discussion” section in an article so make sure to look for that. What you want to put here is exactly what the researchers found. Was anything significant? Was the researcher’s hypothesis verified? Were the researchers pleased or happy with the results? Recommendations and Implications Sometimes I call this the “so what” section. Here you would answer the question “so what.” What is the point of the research? Act like you have some personal interest in this research and answer it from that perspective. What is important about what the researchers did? What is the usefulness of this research? Personal Reaction This is the section that applies to you. What did you think?