An article titled “I Said, Not While You Study:

Science Suggests Kids Can’t Study and Groove at the Same Time” appeared in the Washington Post (September 5, 2006). This provides an example of a reporter summarizing the result of a scientific study in a way that is designed to make it accessible to the newspaper’s readers. You can find the newspaper article online by searching on the title or by going to http://www.washingtonpost.com/

wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/03/AR2006090300592

.html. The study referenced in the newspaper article was published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science and can be found at http://www.pnas.org/

content/103/31/11778.full.

Read the newspaper article and then take a look at the published paper. Comment on whether you think that the author was successful in communicating the findings of the study to the intended audience.