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Progress Report 2 Synthesizing Relevant Sources

This document provides guidance for a group project requiring students to research literature on a topic, identify relevant themes, and synthesize the information. The document instructs students to search for 12-16 sources, identify search terms and tentative research questions, describe up to two relevant theories cited in sources, define antecedents and outcomes, and explain the contribution of their proposed experiment. Students are then asked to organize sources into themes, describe each theme, and list references in APA style.

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Progress Report 2 Synthesizing Relevant Sources

This document provides guidance for a group project requiring students to research literature on a topic, identify relevant themes, and synthesize the information. The document instructs students to search for 12-16 sources, identify search terms and tentative research questions, describe up to two relevant theories cited in sources, define antecedents and outcomes, and explain the contribution of their proposed experiment. Students are then asked to organize sources into themes, describe each theme, and list references in APA style.

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Psych 115

Progress Report #2: Synthesizing relevant sources

Names: __________________________________________
Group name: ______________________________________

Goal: After this PR, the group should be able to search relevant literature, evaluate sources,
identify themes based on the literature available, and integrate the themes to form a coherent
story. Your group should be able to identify and synthesis 12-16 articles (4 per group member)
that will help you further refine your research questions.

TL;DR section

1. What search terms did you use that you feel were most helpful in generating relevant
materials?

2. What is the form of your tentative research question at this point?

3. Based on all the articles you have gathered so far, what theories do they usually cite or use?
Identify at most 2 theories and briefly describe the propositions of the theory.
Theory 1: brief summary
Theory 2: brief summary

4. What do you know so far about your antecedents and outcomes? Identify your antecedents
and outcomes and define them based on the literature you’ve gathered.

5. In 3-5 sentences, what will be the main contribution of your proposed experiment? Answer
this after you’ve identified the gaps (e.g., areas that need further research), controversies,
issues with current frameworks and/or limitations of the studies you have read so far.

Themes section
1. Group articles into themes (or sub-themes). Themes may be grouped according to
definitions of antecedents and outcomes, explanations of a theory, effects of antecedents on
outcomes, studies with similar arguments or positions, findings that contradict earlier
arguments or positions, methodologies or ways of testing effects, etc.
2. Present each theme.
3. Briefly describe (1-2 paragraphs) what each theme means by summarizing the main findings
or arguments of studies that fall under each theme.
4. List the full citation of all the studies under each theme using APA style.

Theme 1:
- main findings or arguments of the articles in the student’s own words
- list of references
Theme 2:
- main findings or arguments of the articles in the student’s own words.
- List of references
Theme 3:
- main findings or arguments of the articles in the student’s own words.
- List of references

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