Please follow these instructions to complete this assignment:
Read the two scientific papers posted below and write a 300-500-word summary of each of the two papers, with APA in-text citations and references. This means that you need to produce two separate summaries, each one between 300 and 500 words, but please put them both in one MS Word file. Here are the two papers that you will need to summarize:
Paper 1: Communication limitations in patients with progressive apraxia of speech and aphasia
Paper 2: Anxiety and its association with perceived stress and insomnia among nurses fighting against COVID-19 in Wuhan: a cross-sectional survey
=> Note on Paper 2: once you have clicked on the link above to open Paper 2, you will need to scroll down below its abstract to see the whole paper.
Please include the following items for each of the two summaries:
1) Type the title of the paper that you will be summarizing at the top of each summary
2) Type a summary of the paper (300-500 words per summary) that addresses the following points:
a) What question the authors aimed to investigate at the outset of their study described in the paper.
b) What value or new information the study might add to the existing literature on the topic investigated in the study.
c) What methods the authors of the paper used to conduct their study.
d) What the authors results and conclusions were.
e) What were the limitations of the study described in the paper.
3) At the very end of your assignment meaning below the two summaries please add a separate “References” page where you will create a list of two references for the two papers in alphabetical order using APA style. (If you wish to use any other sources in your summaries, you will also need to add references and in-text citations for those as well. See more information below, in a paragraph that begins with In each summary). One tip for finding the correct publication information you will need for each reference: if any of it is missing in a PDF copy of the paper posted here, google the title of the paper and find the missing information online.
The summaries must be written solely by summarizing and/or paraphrasing the information from the papers. No quotations are allowed. In addition, you must make sure that you convey an understanding of the papers in your summaries, which means that you first need to understand them as much as possible. I encourage you to use some of the techniques from my related lecture to help with this task.
In each summary, you must use an in-text APA citation in the very first sentence that refers to the specific paper that you will be summarizing. If you are not going to cite any other sources in the same summary, then you dont need to repeat the in-text citation for the main paper throughout the same summary, because it will be clear to the reader that the whole summary refers to that one paper. However, if you are going to cite other sources in your summaries, then you need to cite all of these sources in the text, and repeat the original in-text citation for the main paper each time you refer to it again after mentioning another source.
The same rule applies to the reference(s) at the end of each summary: if you are only going to refer to the main paper throughout a summary, then all you need to post at the end is a reference to that paper. If you are going to use other sources in addition to that, you will need to include references to them too.
As a reminder, here is an APA citation guide from the most recent discussion: How to format APA in-text citations and references.pdf
As for formatting requirements, please double-space the whole assignment. No title page is required for this assignment because it is not a formal research paper. The point here is to help you master the reading and citation skills that you will need for more advanced assignments in this course.
Upload and submit your assignment here in Blackboard in a Microsoft Word document. Please follow these steps to submit your assignment: save your Microsoft Word document on a computer, log in to Blackboard and click on this assignment. Then scroll down to Attach Files/Browse My Computer and upload the document. Click “Submit.”
Please do not submit your assignment through the “Write Submission” field. If you do that, you will unfortunately receive zero points. Please only upload your assignment the way I described above, through Attach Files/Browse My Computer after clicking on the assignment link.
If you are worried that Blackboard will mess up the formatting of your assignment, feel free to convert it to PDF prior to submission. Here is a free Word-to-PDF converter: https://www.ilovepdf.com/word_to_pdf.
Here is a copy if the rubric I will use to grade this assignment: Paper Summary Assignment Rubric.pdf
TOTAL: 50 POINTS
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