Normative and non-normative events help us understand how change and stress may impact our quality of life. Using the South University Library, locate 2 scholarly journal articles written in the last 5-6 years on how change and/or stress can impact a person’s life. Look especially for how sudden, unanticipated (non-normative events) can impact a person’s quality of life.
- Write a summary.
- Describe the main points of the article and how it relates to the week’s course and text readings.
In your summary of each of the journal articles you should discuss the following:
- The main focus of the research.
- The hypotheses and the rationale provided by the researchers for the hypotheses.
- A description of how the procedures involved in each experiment. In other words, you should describe what participants did in the experiment.
- You should discuss the results and the main conclusions.
- If you have selected a “review” article, you will not have hypotheses, methods, or results to evaluate; however, you should provide a thorough summary of the purpose for the review along with the main points described by the author.
- You should then discuss how the article relates to the week’s topic and assigned reading.
Do not use the sections of Method, Results, etc. to write this paper. Those sections are used when we are reporting the results of our own research and should not be used when summarizing research from journal articles.
Do not use direct quotations—please summarize everything in your own words.
Please use correct APA formatting, including a properly formatted title page.
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