Identify a professional (e.g., HR manager, teacher) who would benefit from knowing the study’s results. Write a memo explaining the results to a group of these professionals as part of a consulting gig you’ve taken on to build your resume.

Please respond to the following for a total of 10 points. (This change in points from 20 to 10 allows the Take Home assignments to add up to a total of 30 points when added together, which is how the percentages across assignments were structured. The content required for the assignment has been reduced to account for the lower number of points.)

Your responses should be double-spaced in 12-point font and free of any formatting (e.g., spelling, grammar, punctuation) errors. Remember to indent the first sentence of every new paragraph.

Be sure to proofread before you submit. Your work will be assessed for its accuracy, adherence to instructions, and writing (including being free of citation errors). Your responses should be in your own words. If you quote someone else, you must provide adequate citation of that quote, including the page # (or url that directly links to the quote). Remember to use APA format for in-text citations and references. It is expected that students will submit their own work and not work together on the same article. Plagiarism will be checked on Blackboard via SafeAssign. After submitting, you can do your own check using SafeAssign to make sure nothing is flagged.

TASK:

Find a full-text empirical (peer-reviewed) article on any concept or idea from Chapters
13- 16, and/or 18. Attach a pdf of the full-text article with your submission.

⦁ Write a brief summary of the article, including the primary finding(s) of the study described in the article. (1 paragraph; approximately ½ page)

⦁ Relate the study to concepts learned in the textbook (Chapters 13-16, 18). Put concept names from the textbook in bold font. (1 paragraph; approximately ½ page)

⦁ Identify a professional (e.g., HR manager, teacher) who would benefit from knowing the study’s results. Write a memo explaining the results to a group of these professionals as part of a consulting gig you’ve taken on to build your resume. Be sure to explain the results in plain language (i.e., layperson’s terms) and in ways to which the target audience can relate.
⦁ Memo should start on a new page.
⦁ Memo length should be ½ to ¾ of a page, double-spaced.
⦁ Include To, From, Subject, and Date at the top of the page. (Sample memo: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/professional_technical_writing/memos/sample_memo.html )
⦁ Include a References page. This should have the article that you chose, plus the textbook.

Reference formatting:
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/journal-article-references

In-text Citation Guidelines:
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/basic-principles/author-date

If you are using a direct quote, be sure to include the page number!
Example from https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/quotations:

Finding Articles:
https://infoguides.gmu.edu/psychology/articles
⦁ Choose APA PsycInfo