Your paper should be approximately 10 pages, double spaced, and include a title page. Your font should not be bigger than size 12. The paper should be in APA format and be formally written. You should not use “I”, “my”, “me”, “we”, “you”
Your final research paper should include 8 components:
1. Title Page
2. Abstract
3. Introduction
4. Literature review
5. Methods
6. Results
7. Discussion
8. References
Title Page
Your paper should include a title page, please see APA sample paper for correct format.
Abstract
This should provide the reader with a brief summary of your research and the findings. This should not be longer than 120 words.
Introduction
This provides the reader with an overview of your topic and why it’s important.
Literature Review
For this portion, you will use research articles that have studied your topic. Discuss each article, the findings, why they may or may not be important. What are the limitations of these studies? End this section with how your research would help further research in this area. Make sure to include your hypothesis in this section.
Method
This section should detail how you will conduct your study. How will you obtain your sample? What is your study design (survey, experiment, observation, and interview)? Make sure to identify and define your variables. What important factors will you need to control for?
If you’re doing a survey, what will your survey ask? How many questions? What type of questions will you ask? Open-ended? Will you use a Likert scale? If it’s an experiment, you will need to identify and define your variables. Will you have a control group?
Make sure to obtain informed consent and cover any ethical issues that may arise.
Results
What were the results of your study? This data will most likely be made up unless you are surveying the class or another group. You don’t need to conduct any statistical tests but you should mention whether or not your data showed any correlations or relationships. Are you using descriptive statistics (mean,
median, and mode) or inferential statistics (correlations, p-values, statistical hypothesis tests)?
Discussion
This section should detail what the results of your study mean. What were the relationships between variables that you found and what does that mean? What were the limitations of your study? Was your sample too limited? How might you redo this study? What other variables could you incorporate next time? How does this help future research?
Remember for this paper you will draw conclusions from potentially made up data so your results and discussion section will use hypothetical data outlining the various outcomes that could arise in the data.
References
Each reference should be cited properly in APA format.
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