The paper is worth 50% of the student’s “paper GPA” (with the other 50% based on the literature search). As for the final course grade, the paper grade will be either 19% or 23.5% of the total course grade, depending on whether the student’s paper GPA is, respectively, less than or greater than the student’s exam GPA. (See syllabus for details.) The GPA for the paper will be based on the third highest score--the same procedure as is used for the exams. The purposes of this assignment are that the student learn how to write a paper in APA style and use the concepts covered in lectures as a model for evaluating a journal article on cognitive psychology. Your paper should summarize the target article (hereafter TA) by Fazio and Marsh (2009) that was the basis for the literature search you did. The TA was published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review and is available on ERes on Blackboard. Your paper should also very briefly summarize an article (that cited and followed up on the TA) that you believe does the best job of improving upon the TA or of advancing knowledge beyond what was found in the TA. This article can be the one you selected in Part 6 in the literature review assignment or a different article. Your paper should conform to APA style and consist of 3-5 double-spaced pages of text (excluding the title page, abstract page, references and any tables that are included). The TA should be summarized in a concise fashion. You should include what the authors of the TA were trying to find, what methods they used, as well as their actual findings and conclusions. With regard to what the authors were trying to find out, you should briefly discuss 2-3 articles that led to the research in the TA. These articles can be taken directly from the introduction of the TA. Essentially, this is like a mini introduction to the TA. Articles not related to the TA are posted on ERes as examples of proper formatting and writing style and of the precision and clarity of writing that you should aspire to in your paper. Summaries of papers they cite in their introductions are highlighted to show the level of detail you should use in your summary of the TA. These example articles should NOT be included in your paper and you do not need to be concerned with their content. Your paper must conform to APA format. An annotated example of a manuscript that uses APA formatting is posted on ERes on Blackboard, i.e., the Purdue OWL manuscript. Another example is the Veltre et al. APA formatted manuscript submitted to Memory. (It was published there.) Your paper should meticulously include most of the annotated components of APA style that are included in the Purdue OWL paper. HOWEVER, because you are only summarizing prior research and not reporting an experiment, your paper should not have any section headings such as Methods, Results or Discussion. You will be graded on every picky detail of APA style, e.g., the running head, use of “&” vs. “and” in the text and reference section, etc. To learn about APA style and the most recent edition of the APA publication manual, consult: http://www.apastyle.org/ or http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/. At the end of this document I present a summary of mistakes that students often make in their papers regarding violations of APA formatting requirements and other deficiencies in their papers. If you carefully read this summary of these common mistakes and avoid them you can greatly improve the grade you earn on your paper. Your paper should cite and BRIEFLY discuss a couple of papers that led to the TA and summarize the TA. In terms of succinctness and the level of detail you use to summarize the TA, do not say how many subjects were tested, give any statistical results or give aspects of the methods and procedure that are not necessary to understand the main points of the research you are describing.  Guidelines for Jim Neely’s APSY 381 Paper p. 2 That is, do not say how many items were tested, how long each item was presented for, etc. Points will be taken off for that. However, you do need to describe the task, how subjects responded and the most important results (not every single result). Try to mimic the style of the TA’s introduction and the highlighted portions of the introductions in the Veltre et al., Pastizzo et al. and Cho and Neely papers posted on ERes on Blackboard. You should go into more detail on the TA than on the background research. The summary of the follow-up article can be even briefer (so that you do not exceed the 5-page limit). Provide a concise summary of the rationale for why the follow up was conducted, give only the general aspects of the procedures, and only the main results that you believe are most important. Finally give a 1-3 sentence wrap of what the articles you have discussed have shown. The quality of the writing is important. Your paper will be graded for its clarity, word choice, succinctness,grammaticality,transitionsbetweenparagraphs,flow,etc. Tolearnaboutelementsof good scientific writing style, you should consult: Sternberg, R. J. (2003). The psychologist’s companion: A guide to scientific writing for students and researchers (4th ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. The student is strongly encouraged to take a draft of his or her paper to the Writing Center for help in improving its quality. The Writing Center is located in HU 140 and the phone number is 442- 4061. The web page is at: http://www.albany.edu/writing/information/hours.html You should submit both a hard copy and an electronic version of your paper to Blackboard. The file name should have the format PSY 381 YOURNAME.doc, such that YOURNAME consists of your first name and last name. If this format for the file name is not used, 3 points will be deducted from the paper’s point total.  Guidelines for Jim Neely’s APSY 381 Paper p. 3 A Rough Sketch of the APSY 381 Paper Grading Rubric (The point allocations are approximate.) 97 pts total 1. Format (APA style, title page, abstract, body, references, double-spaced): 25 pts 2. Summary of TA. 32 points total a. Main purpose (8 points) (little or no background research needed) b. Main Procedures (10 points) c. Results of target article (10 points) d. Marsh and Fazio’s conclusion (4 points) 3. Summary of article that follows up on TA. 21 points total a. Purpose. How will the reported experiment(s) improve the TA’s design/procedures and manipulate variables that advance knowledge beyond TA’s results (6 points) b. Procedures of follow up article (5 points) c. Results of follow up article (6 points) d. Authors’ conclusions (4 points) 4. Wrap up. (3 points) 5. Writing Quality (clarity, word choice, succinctness, grammaticality, transitions between paragraphs, flow, etc.): 16 pts General Deductions 1. Incorrect file format/name: - 3 pts 2. Paper exceeds 5 pages: - 5 pts 3. Turned in by class on Tuesday 4/18, 10 point deduction. If the paper is not turned in by that time it will not be graded. The Paper letter grade will be based on the percentage of either the 3rd or 4th highest paper point total.  Guidelines for Jim Neely’s APSY 381 Paper p. 4 APA formatting and other issues that will affect your grade: (1) Multiple papers cited within parentheses: in same order as in reference section, not chronological order. (2) Use minimal or zero quotes. Only quote important material that is related to an abstract theory and that is difficult to paraphrase in your own words. Give p. # for all quotes. (3) On the title page, you are the author, not Fazio and Marsh. (4) Writing mistakes: then/than; affect/effect; Experiment 1, not “experiment one”; results don’t conclude, people do. (5) Give background research first, not after the TA research is described! (6) Obtained results are effects, not theories. (7) Use “&” vs. “and” according to APA style. (8) When citing papers with more than two authors, give all authors the first time and use “et al.” thereafter. General writing mistakes and tips (1) Be careful on verb tense and noun-verb number agreement. (2) A void unnecessary wordiness. (3) Define a term when it is introduced! Don’t wait until two sentences later to provide information necessary for understanding the material in the current sentence. (4) People do not have perfect memories; use reminder cues (less important in short paper). (5) Use transitions; foreshadow. (6) Before you write it, say it aloud as you would explain it to a friend; after writing, read it aloud. (7) Use appropriate level of detail (a) # of subjects, norms (give a single example), # of questions, specific font etc. too much detail in a summary article (8) When citing an article in the text, a general reference for a point in parentheses. “It has been shown that ... (Fazio & Marsh, 2009) ”. A specific reference making a specific point: Fazio and Marsh (2009), not “Fazio and Marsh show..... (2009)” Don’t give titles or authors’ first names. (9) Do an outline first. (10) Have someone read your paper and summarize what you say in each paragraph. Use the writing lab.