In the preliminary stages of your research paper, you will be required to find,

In the preliminary stages of your research paper, you will be required to find, read, and review various references that pertain to your topic of study. After a basic scan or perusal of some articles, you will likely select a topic you plan to investigate. In order to help narrow down your broad research topic to a more specific research question or area, it will help to review similar articles and studies that have been done in the field. Thus, your assignment is to find a peer-reviewed article that pertains to your “potential” research topic you will be working on this semester and write an article summary. I have provided three examples on how to write article summaries that you may reference. You are not required to use this format alone.