Final Paper Assignment
For the final paper, you will choose an area of interest within the field of neuroscience and
provide a brief summary, locate and summarize a recent popular media story, summarize the
source article, and provide a comparative analysis from your informed perspective.
Step 1:
Select a topic in neuroscience-that is of interest to you. Present relevant history and current
knowledge in this field. Your textbook is an excellent resource.
Step 2:
Summarize a popular press story that presents research findings in your area of interest. Read
and summarize the story and write a summary of the focus, information, and presentation of the
information.
The story must have been published no earlier than 2011. The following media sources are
suggestions, however other sources are acceptable, including news from social networks.
Step 3:
Summarize the source article that your popular media story is based on. This summary will fully
incorporate a minimum of two references pulled from your peer-reviewed primary article.
The source article must have been published by a respected, peer-refereed journal, no earlier than
2010.
The article must include full description of one or more empirical quantitative studies. Purely
theoretical or review papers are not acceptable. Articles describing qualitative research (e.g., case
studies, anecdotal evidence, anthropological or informal methodologies) are not acceptable for
this assignment.
The following are journal suggestions, however articles in other respected, peer-refereed journal
are also acceptable.
Step 4:
Present a comparative evaluation of the accuracy and perspective of the popular media story
based upon your evaluation of the source article and your own informed neuroscience
perspective.
(4~5pages, references is not included, 2~3references in total)
