(Please send your abstract electronically to me at patricia.hensley@furman.edu)
Abstracts:
The purpose of your writing these abstracts if for you to provide some information on the theory or an intervention (practice) presented in the journal article along with your thoughts on the theory or practice in an educational setting. Does the method sound effective? Why or Why not? What are its strengths? Are there limitations or problems you could see on how to implement it in a teaching situation? How do you feel students would react to it? If you have questions about the theory or practice, how might it be modified? Would it be time consuming to implement? Did you have a comparable learning experience?
Begin the abstract with the reference, following the format described below. You can use the following format; include your reflections about the article.
For a research study (e.g., an instructional procedure was implemented, the process is described in the article, and results are reported) provide:
· The number of subjects/individuals
· Age and/or grade level
· The research design and the instructional procedure
· The results, limitations, implications
· Your reactions to the article (this may be written in first person)
For a theoretical paper, provide:
· The main points discussed
· Justification for each main point
· Limitations, implications
· Your reactions to the article (this may be written in first person)
Complete sentences are not required, although the abstract still needs to read logically. Abbreviations (that can be interpreted) may be used. The length should be approximate 1 ½ to 2 pages, double spaced. Articles that you ‘review’ need to be at least 6 pages in length. A rule of thumb: Provide sufficient information so that the reader “has an idea” or an understanding of the content of the entire article. Include your reactions. Articles need to be published on or after 2002 and need to be from professional refereed journals. Submit a copy of the two articles. While there are informative articles in magazines such as Time, Newsweek, and Good Housekeeping, articles from these publications are not acceptable for this assignment.
Abstracts are to be written in American Psychological Association (APA) style. If you are unfamiliar with APA, a copy of the current edition of the manual is in the reference section of the library. Your text is also written using APA guidelines, so you can use it as a reference for the APA style (Note: to save space, your text does not begin with a 5-space indent, but uses 3 spaces, and uses the APA ‘hanging’ indent so the author ‘sticks out” and is the point to which your eye is drawn. Lerner and Kline italicize titles rather than underlining – either underlining or italics is appropriate, consistency is the main point.) This also means the paper is written in third person. However your reactions to the article may be written in first person.
Online information for APA formatting can be found at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
Listed below are journals that might be useful and are housed in the Furman University library. You are not limited to these sources.
Academic Therapy
Adolescence
Behavior Therapy
Children Today
The Elementary School Journal
Exceptional Children
Focus on Exceptional Children
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
Journal of Learning Difficulties
Journal of Reading
Journal of Reading Difficulties
Journal of Special Education
Learning Disabilities Quarterly
Reading Research Quarterly
The Reading Teacher
Remedial and Special Education
Review of Educational Research
Teaching Exceptional Children
Social Studies
Theory into Practice
APA reference format:
Author(s). (Year). Title of article, only first word, proper nounds, and first word after colon capitalized. Name of journal (usual capitalization), volume number (issue number, when needed), and pages listed.
A note: One may either underline OR italicize journal titles. Also, since the journal in which Troia et al. have published (Exceptional Children) continues page numbers from one issue to the next, and not back to page “1,” the issue number is not included. Teaching Exceptional Children, on the other hand, begins each issue of each volume with page “1,” so the issue number is essential. The way to check this out is to write down the reference information which is usually on the first page inside the cover: the volume and issue information is there, and not always on the cover.
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