1. Title of paper and include the link if it is one you chose versus one I assigned

2. List 3 observations from the paper that inspired the authors to conduct the experiment or write this paper. DO NOT tell me what they did. Tell me WHY they are even going the study – 3 reasons that should be based on previous research and is usually addressed in introductions.

3. What was/is their over-arching question?

4. What is their hypothesis?

5. What was their independent variable?

6. What was their dependent variable?

7. EXPLAIN what they did in their experiment in your own words. This will require some details, show me you understood everything they did.

8. What was their control, did they have one?

9. Summarize the results of their data.

10. Summarize why this study matters? What does it tell us? Why should we care?