1. How can you tell this is a primary article?
2. What is the
that the study
3. What is the
specific hypothesis being tested?
4. What is the experimental approach to testing the hypothesis? What was
measured?
motivation for the study - what is the broad problem in the field
helps to address?
5. What were the important quantitative results?
6. Explain whether the results support or contradict the hypothesis.
7. What do the results mean in terms of the broader issues that motivated the
study?
8. Provide the full reference to this article using this format: Author 1 Last
Name, First name initials; Author 2 Last Name, First name initials, (Year of
publication). Article title. Journal name in italics Volume#(Issue#):
start_page:end_page.