Read everything before doing anything!
The object of this assignment is to paraphrase a psychological study. The study is online at URL http://cpl.revues.org/document398.html. The first part is in French, but don’t freak out–the remaining text is in English.
Read the study, and then write a summary of the article that would be appropriate for a general audience. Write it as though it were going to appear in a beginning psychology book. The double-spaced document should be two to three pages, not including the title page. The title page must be in APA style. Instead of your name, please put your class identifier number. Use the following as your title:
How Glass Color Affects Perception of Beverages
Since this is not a research paper, you may summarize previous research covered in the authors’ introduction without giving secondary source citations for that research. Your summary will have a reference section that includes a reference to the original article, in APA style, adjusting the date of retrieval to match the date you read the article.
Guéguen, N. (2006, March 30). The Effect of Glass Colour on the Evaluation of a Beverage’s Thirst-Quenching Quality, Current Psychology Letters, 11. Retrieved September 2, 2008, from http://cpl.revues.org/document398.html
Remember, you are summarizing and paraphrasing. Plagiarism, of course, is the kiss of death, rewarding you with an instant zero on the assignment.
Here is a sample paraphrase based on this research paper. To make it more universally accessible, I have stored it in PDF format. The footnote text contains comments about how the summary was written. The footnotes are double-spaced according to APA style, even though I think it conumes far too much space. You will not put footnotes in your paraphrase—I do not need to know your thought process.
You will also want to read this handout about summarizing articles.
Name the file in the form
paraphrasennnn.rtf (if Rich text Format), or
paraphrasennnn.odt (if OpenDocument text),
where nnnn is your code number.
Email it to the
instructor, and print out a copy to give to the instructor
in class. The filename must
be all lowercase, and may not contain blanks.
I will be using this rubric as a guide to grading your assignment. You will receive the higher of the two grades on this assignment and the previous paraphrase assignment.