What was the main reason the researchers did this research
You will have a week and a half to complete this part of the research paper. DO NOT SAVE ALL OF THE WORK FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS. Break it up over the entire time so it is not overwhelming. We will be meeting in class 2 times before it is due and I will meet with each student individually to check on progress.
READ PAGES 307-308 IN YOUR APA MANUAL BEFORE YOU BEGIN! (Section 9.51 and Figure 9.3) Your final product should look like the sample on page 308.
You may submit a draft of this paper one times before the due date. Your final grade will be the average of your 2 attempts (first draft and final draft), so it’s in your best interest to do well the first time. If you want me to grade your first attempt so you can submit a 2nd attempt, all first attempts must be submitted by Saturday, April 17, 5pm. I will grade them as quickly as I can.
ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS: The first step in any research project is a thorough literature review. Once you have gotten my approval for the topic of your research paper, you will need to find relevant, primary level articles on your topic. You will do this using the library databases AND Google Scholar. (You’ll want to use Google Scholar to do descendency searches. Ask me about these if you missed us going over it in class.)
Your first steps for your paper are to 1. find at least 15 primary level articles that are related to your topic and 2. create an annotated bibliography. An annotated bibliography is a reference list, but with annotations about each article you are considering including in your paper.
For your annotated bibliography, use standard APA format for the references, and then add a brief summary for each article that includes 2 paragraphs with:
1. What was the main reason the researchers did this research? (No less than 3 sentences.) – What were the main finding(s) of the research? (No less than 3 sentences.) Don’t include statistics.
Be sure to include citations where appropriate. Each annotation for each article must include at least 1 narrative citation and 1 parenthetical citation. This is your chance to practice writing these!
Be sure you are not plagiarizing anything. This is your first chance to work on paraphrasing what the authors wrote to build your own understanding of the research you are reading and writing about.
2. How would this research fit into your paper? That is, you need to start thinking about “sections” for your paper. How are you going to organize the research into sections that explore various aspects of this research. For example, if your paper is about drug abuse in college students, you may have a section on how it starts, a section of commonly abused drugs, and a section on gender differences in drug abuse for college students. How you organize your paper is up to you, but you want to start looking for logical ways to organize your research as you are reading your primary level articles for the first time – not when you sit down to write the actual paper. (Write at least 2-4 sentences for this part to show me you have really given it some thought.)
Use one-inch margins on all sides;
Use Times New Roman font and 12pt. font size
Double space your entire document consistently (“space before” and “space after” should be set to zero);
Alphabetize the entries by first author’s last name;
Hanging indents (a.k.a. reverse indents) are required for citations;
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