Summarize 3 articles, describe their strengths and weaknesses, describe which article is the strongest.

Summarize 3 articles, describe their strengths and weaknesses, describe which article is the strongest.

Format of the paper

1) For the first paragraph, briefly introduce which three papers you read and what they were about (e.g. Main questions/topics)

2) Write a paragraph for each paper to explain their main claim(s) and the data they use to support that claim. While doing this, answer the questions: Is it convincing? What makes it convincing (i.e. strengths), and what makes it less convincing (i.e. weaknesses, if any)?

3) Now that you’ve explained how convincing each paper, write a concluding paragraph saying which of the three you feel did the best job overall of answering their main question(s) and explain what made it better than the others (or what made the others worse than it)

List of some of the things that make papers convincing (strengths) look for theses in the paper
1) Strong visible effects
2) Reproducibility
3) they use multiple approaches ( different techniques to find the same info)
4) logical arguments
5) appropriate statistics
6) representing all data points
7) large sample sizes
8) clear methods
9) appropriate style model used
10) controls
11) background information

List of some of the things that make papers LESS convincing (weaknesses) look for theses in the papers

1) errors
2) logical statements
3) inconsistent data
4) unclear methods
5) not showing all data points

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