Scholarly Studies Comparison

With this essay I’m comparing two scholarly studies to see if they have the same answer to the same question pertaining to their studies. Please see instructions below. I’ve included a link to both scholarly articles. For this paper there needs to be an introduction with hook, thesis statement and conclusion. However, with the conclusion my professor has instructed not to restate thesis statement.

Links to articles:

Instructions:

For Essay 2, find two scholarly studies looking at the same thing. If you’d like to use the scholarly article from Essay 1 as one of these, feel free. “Same thing” really means just that: they need to look at the same aspect of a topic (theoretically, they should try to answer the same question). The two studies you read on diet soda, for example, attempt to answer the same question–whether diet soda aids or harms one’s desire to lose weight. This is a good example of a pair of articles on the same topic. Once you’ve got the two articles, your goal is to figure out which one is stronger, or how they differ, or what we, as the general public, should take away from the two results.

In order to do this, consider the author’s background, the journal in which it was published, any statements/possible conflict of interest, and the study design (a lot of the details on how to do this are in the upcoming weeks). You might need to do some research for this (on the author, journal, or conflict of interest, but it won’t be the type of research paper you wrote in high school (or will write later on this term).