Simplify a complex paper into a Simple summary
Your task is to simplify a complex paper into a simple summary. So, imagine that you had to prepare a TED talk on a years-long research project but you only have 10 minutes to present your research and results. Same logic: you only have four pages, and you don’t have to come up with your own research, but only summarize what other researchers did.
In the methods & results sections, do not worry about reporting numbers, graphs or statistics, but describe what the authors of the paper did, how many studies they ran, what methods they used, and what they found. The more it reads like a story, the better.
In the discussion section, do not forget to include yourself, i.e. a few lines related to the limitations you perceived in the paper and possible future directions.
Remember that this is a hard task and you don’t have to do a perfect job to get a perfect score. It is probably your first time doing this, and I am aware of that. Do your best. The purpose of this task is to two-fold: (i) learning how to read a research paper in psychology, and (ii) learning how to synthesize complex information into a simple form.
