7th Edition

Research Article Activity

This activity will help students learn how to find, cite, analyze, and summarize a scholarly research article.
For each step of the activity, type your responses directly into the text fields provided, or copy the
questions into your preferred word-processing program and answer them there. Complete this activity
multiple times to help you write papers such as literature reviews.
Notes for each part indicate where to find more information in the seventh edition of the Publication
Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition or on the APA Style website.

Step 1: Finding a Research Article

The best place to find a reliable research article is in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal accessed from a research
database or platform, such as APA PsycNet, ProQuest, OvidSP, or EBSCOhost. Check with your university library
to see which platforms and databases your school has access to and which ones are recommended for your
subject area. APA journals are a good starting point for students of psychology.
Many types of research articles are published in scholarly journals, including quantitative studies, qualitative
studies, and mixed methods studies. In general, research articles have the following characteristics:
• report original, or primary, research
• include distinct sections that reflect the stages of the research process, usually the following
sections in the following order:

° Introduction: description of the purpose of the investigation and the issues being reported,
review of the background literature, and study objectives and/or hypotheses
° Method: full description of each step of the study, including the materials used, procedures
followed, research design, and flow of participants
° Results (quantitative article): report of the results of statistical analyses conducted
° Findings (qualitative article): report of the findings using natural language
° Discussion: summary of the study, including any interpretation, limitations, and implications of
the results or findings and next steps
Chapters 1 and 3 of the Publication Manual provide descriptions of research articles and the sections often
included in them, respectively.
Step 2: Citing a Research Article
Once you have identified a research article on a topic of interest to you, create its reference list entry and in-text
citation. The reference list entry allows readers to identify and retrieve the work, and the in-text citation serves as
a simple and consistent way to refer to the article during the research and writing process.

Reference List Entry

To create a reference list entry, gather the following information:
del Castillo, María Dolores
Author(s): Iriondo-DeHond, Amaia
Iriondo-DeHond, Maite
Medrano, Alejandra
june,2021
Year of publication:
Filip, Rosana
Healthy
Uribarri, Jaimeeating recommendations: good for reducing dietary contribution to the body's advanced
Title of article: glycation/lipoxidation end products pool?
Gonzalez, Ileana

Nutrition research journal

Journal name:

Vol. 34
Volume number:
Or advance online publication (replaces
Issue 1
Issue number: volume/issue/pages):
p48-63
Page range or article number:
10.1017/S0954422420000141
DOI:

Now, use the information to create a reference list entry according to the journal article reference examples.

Reference list entry (remember to apply hanging indent in your paper):

Food Bioscience Group, Department of Bioactivity and Food Analysis, Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la
Alimentación (CIAL) (CSIC-UAM), Calle Nicolás Cabrera, 9, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Instituto Madrileño de Investigación y Desarrollo Rural, Agrario y Alimentario (IMIDRA), N-II km 38, 28800 Alcalá de
Henares, Spain
Biomedical Research Laboratories, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Maule, Av. San Miguel 3605, Talca, Región
del Maule, Chile
Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología de Alimentos, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, Avenida Gral.
Flores 2124, 11800 Montevideo, Departamento de Montevideo, Uruguay
Department of Pharmacognosy, Institute of Drug Chemistry and Metabolism, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry,
In-Text Citations
University of Buenos Aires, Junín 954, C1113AAD CABA, Argentina
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As of now the research states that " foods are reflecting in the mallinard reactions
Parenthetical in-text citation:
may lead to reduce the body's advanced glycation/lipoxidation end products in the
maintainence of the body with healthy diet will bring the goal".
The research brings down to follow a healthy diet to achieve goals.
Narrative in-text citation:
Step 3: Analyzing a Research Article
Research articles are typically dense with information. The following questions provide an organized way for you
to break down the parts of the research article and understand its purpose, methods, findings, and implications.

Introduction
1. What is the topic of the article?
The topic is about nutrition which is stating about healthy eating diet to achieve particular healthy goals where we can
end body's advanced glycation/lipoxidation end pool in the body.

2. What is the study hypothesis (or hypotheses)?

The food we are taking is the reasonable for the cycle which is happning in our body include reactions in food where we
can learn that AGE(advanced glycation end products) and ALE(Advanced lipoxidation end products) by following
healthy diet with low sugars,low fats and enriched in bio-active compounds the recommendations are made by Spanish
Society of Community Nutrition (SENC) and Harvard University seem to be adequate to reduce dietary AGE/ALE.

3. What type of research was conducted (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods empirical
study or meta-analysis) or what was the paper type (e.g., literature review, replication)?
nutrition review research mostly related to scientifical way while poviding solutions.

Method
4. How many people (or nonhuman animals) participated in the study?
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5. Who were the participants? Describe from where they were recruited (e.g., college student subject
pool) and all relevant personal characteristics (e.g., age, gender, race or ethnicity).
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6. Where was the study conducted (e.g., online, lab, home, school, work, hospital, clinic)?
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7. What tests or measures were collected (e.g., surveys, questionnaires)?

The information is collected by the authors through different sources including Spanish Society of Community Nutrition
(SENC) and Harvard University.

8. What analyses were conducted (e.g., correlation, t test, chi-square test, analysis of variance, thematic)?
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Results or Findings
9. What are the main results or findings from the study?
We may learn about AGE (advanced glycation end products) and ALE (advanced lipoxidation end products) by following
a healthy diet that is low in sugar, low in fat, and enriched in bio-active chemicals. The food we consume is reasonable
for the cycle that is occurring in our bodies. The suggestions from Harvard University and the Spanish Society of
Community Nutrition (SENC) seem sufficient for lowering dietary AGE/ALE.

10. If there are tables and/or figures, what types of tables (e.g., demographic, correlation) and/or figures
(e.g., bar graph, participant flow) are they? What important information do they convey?
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Discussion
11. What are the main conclusions of the research?
The main things we found that we should follow a diet which does'nt reflect in diseases so we should try fresh fruits
and good protein rich diet which allows different combination of minerals in our diet to reduce diseases and fight with
mallinard reaction which reflects in glycation/lipoxidation end products pool in the body.
The quality of the diet is also depends on that food which we are taking here where we can understand the things from
different sources of body is responding to the diet.

12. To whom do the results or findings apply? Can they be generalized to all people in all places, to
certain subsets of people, or something else?
it only reflects to the people mostly who are suffering with similar kind of effects in their body but however following
the diet is encouraged by everyone who is responsible here to take healthy rich diet to control diabetes or overweight
or something.

13. What are the strengths and limitations of the study?

The study is reflecting about gruop factors which indicate about physical health of human body by explaining the
elments which are responsible for such type of dilemma where we can understand the features of this concept.
The focussing study is stating about such a things where we can write different things unless every information
provided is not supporting the whole process which is respionsible for such a type of things.

14. What are areas for further investigation on this topic?

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Step 4: Paraphrasing a Research Article
Now that you have analyzed the article content, paraphrase important information from it in your own words.
Keep each paraphrase about the Method, Results or Findings, and Discussion to one sentence if possible. Then
use these paraphrases to write an article summary. Use this summary when writing your papers (e.g., literature
reviews or response papers) to describe published research. Include one in-text citation (either parenthetical or
narrative, as shown in Step 2) in the first sentence of your article summary.

Method section paraphrase:

We can discover that advanced glycation end products and ALE advanced lipoxidation end products can be avoided by
eating a healthy diet rich in bioactive compounds and low in carbohydrates and fats. The food we consume is reasonable
for the cycle that is occurring in our bodies. To lower dietary AGE/ALE, the suggestions from Harvard University and the
Spanish Society of Community Nutrition (SENC) appear to be sufficient.

Results or Findings section paraphrase:

The food we eat here, where we can learn things from various sources about how the body is responding to the diet, also
affects the quality of the diet.
such things from the diet like low sugar foods,supplements and bio active compounds which can process the
carbhohydrate metabolism system.

Discussion section paraphrase:

By describing the factors responsible for this type of dilemma, this study considers group factors indicative of the physical
health of the human body, allowing us to understand the character of this concept.
The focus study says that many things can be written as long as the information provided does not support the overall
process responsible for such things reflects in the control of food intake or not taking calorie count is also the responsible
things while followin the diet may included with different things.

Article summary:
The goal of the current review is to provide dietary advice for reducing the Maillard reaction in food and the body's pool of
advanced glycation/lipoxidation end products (AGE/ALE). The goal may be achievable through a nutritious diet, food
reformulation, and appropriate culinary practices. It is advised to consume a varied diet high in fresh fruits and vegetables,
non-added sugar beverages containing Maillard reaction inhibitors, and dishes cooked using the steaming and poaching
methods. It's also advised to consume new foods, vitamins, and bioactive chemicals from food and waste that can lower
the body's AGE/ALE pool and control glucose metabolism. In conclusion, the Spanish Society of Community Nutrition's
suggestions for a healthy diet (SENC) and Harvard University appear sufficient to diminish dietary AGE/ALE, the body's
AGE/ALE pool, and to establish sustainable nutrition.

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Last updated April 14, 2022
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We thank Emily Polacek, of Hinsdale South High School, for
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