Research Summary Sheet

Instructions:
Complete the following form for each artifact that validates your problem statement.

Source (APA format):

Cooper, A. (2012, May 10). 10 Cleaning Chores Best Left to Professionals. Retrieved March 5, 2020,
from https://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/household-hints-tips/cleaning-
organizing/10-cleaning-chores-best-left-to-professionals.htm

Artifact Summary:
Summarize in your own words. Highlight the key pieces, including features and benefits.

This source offers many insights to house chores that are due to the nature of them being
harder may also be very time consuming. The source shows 10 different problems that
people have when they are cleaning at home and the article believes could be best left to
professionals. One of the key problems it highlights is time and it recognizes that you
could do some of these yourselves but it may take a lot of time.

Artifact Critique:
How does the artifact provide validity, conflict, or the need for further research? What
unique aspect does the artifact add to your overall research?

The artifact brings any many other possible areas to look at that it thinks are things that
could be left to professionals and that it thinks are not very user friendly which provides
possible areas we could to look to use to try and improve or innovate on. It provides
validity in that it shows that there is a market for house cleaning businesses and products
that aim to make life easier.

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