General Steps:
1. Determine a research topic, question, and hypothesis that you would like to investigate.
• Narrow/broaden your topic as necessary.
• Note—the research question you develop must be able to be answered using at least one of the
statistical analyses that we covered previously in class (e.g., t-test, ANOVA, etc.)
2. Complete/submit a small-scale literature review related to your selected topic.
3. Create/submit a PowerPoint research proposal
Sections of the paper:
Student APA title page (1 page)
• Entire document must be properly formatted using APA (7th ed.) formatting
Introduction (~0.5 page)
• Establish the context of your review
o Define the topic of your study; provide brief background information to help your reader understand the topic; any operational definitions?
You should have at least 1 article cited in this section
o Explain your reason for reviewing the literature on this topic (think significance/importance) o Integrate your research question
Body (~2 pages) Final sentence in this section: “The purpose of this literature review is to…”
• Describe the findings of your articles in an integrative fashion (i.e., what do we already know?) o Refrain from saying Study 1 found this, Study 2 found this, Study 3 found this, etc.
Compare and connect articles
You should have at least 4 articles cited in this section
• It may be helpful to chunk articles by ‘themes’ based on the results/implications of
Summary (~0.25 to 0.5 page) each article
• Summarize the main findings from the articles that you reviewed and point out the information that you
found particularly important to know
• Try to conclude your paper by connecting your research question back to the context of the general topic
of study
References
• At least 5 peer-reviewed research articles
o Can use additional sources (e.g., books, etc.) but must have at least 5 peer-reviewed research articles
• Must be in APA format
• Must print-off the first page of every peer-reviewed research article you cite (e.g., print as PDF,
screengrab/shot)
o Include those printed of pages at the end of this document
I will upload the rubric, please follow instructions closely. Also, my professor is very strict with plagiarism The paper needs to be lower than 5% on Turnitin.