Read the articles closely, answer the following questions for each article:
1.How can you tell this is a primary article?
2.What is the motivation for the study – what is the broad problem in the field that the study helps to address?
3.What is the specific hypothesis being tested?
4.What is the experimental approach to testing the hypothesis? What was measured?
5.What were the important quantitative results?
6.Explain whether the results support or contradict the hypothesis.
7.What do the results mean in terms of the broader issues that motivated the study?
8.A good article title needs to strike a balance between sounding interesting and being informative about the topic it covers. What do you think of the title of this article? Was it well balanced between sounding interesting while also being informative or was it skewed in one direction? Can you suggest a different title for this article?
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