Article Summaries and Chapter Questions for Personality at Work

Purpose of article summaries and questions:

The first purpose of having you write summaries for each article and answer chapter questions to insure that you are well prepared for class discussions. Secondly, the article summaries and questions will help prepare you for the exams, as will the discussions in class.

Course credit will be awarded for the summaries and questions. Article summaries and answers to chapter questions will be due on the date assigned for class discussion.

Question answers: Provide a written answer to each chapter question (from one sentence to a paragraph.

Instructions for article summaries: For each article assigned for discussion, the student should provide a summary which includes the information outlined below.

The follow template should be used for article summaries:

Student name: (last, first)

Date submitted:

Article: (authors, date, title)

Outline of Summary:

1. Statement of purpose/problem addressed

2. Research question:

3. Method and procedure

4. Results/findings

5. Implications and applications