TOPIC: Psychology

A quick video on Research Articles and Peer Review:

Click on the image to learn more about each part of the article.

Here is what a typical scholarly article from a journal might look like.

Article structure and reading strategy

Articles generally follow this structure:

1. Abstract: Summary of the whole article
2. Introduction: Why they did the research
3. Methodology: How they did the research
4. Results:  What happened 
5. Discussion: What the results mean
6. Conclusion: What they learned
7. References:  Whose research they cited

Should you read the article in order?  Not necessarily.  Here is the order we recommend:

1. Abstract
2. Discussion / Conclusion
3. Introduction
4. Methodology / Results  (skim - often too much detail)