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Choose one main topic covered in the textbook to write about. Please write different information than what I can read in your textbook. I will need to approve your topic before you start writing. You will write the first page (only) as an autobiographical or biographical statement of why you are specifically interested in your topic. For example, let’s say your cousin has been diagnosed with major depression and you choose depression as your research topic, so the first page will be about your cousin’s issues with depression. My topic is about depression. I will write first page (autographical/biographical) I just need assistance with the research portion.. I have the 3 research experiments that teacher approved. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2904751681/397CDAD2988948F2PQ/1?accountid=38212&sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals https://www.proquest.com/docview/2806499967/589401014EDA42EAPQ/5?accountid=38212&sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals https://www.proquest.com/docview/2791651461/2825FE2971724152PQ/13?accountid=38212&sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals
The next 3 pages must be a synopsis of the research experiments you read. Remember, experiments include a control group and an experimental group, though I might approve other types of studies if you send them to me several days before the paper is due. You cannot use interviews, history, or stories of individuals as evidence of empirical research. You should not use meta-analyses or literature reviews either.
Also, if you write a conclusion that only repeats what you have already written or is your opinion, this does not count towards the required three pages of research. It is best not to write a conclusion.
The 5th page will be your reference page (bibliography). This means that you do not include title of article or title of journal or full name of author(s) in your paper as this will all be on the reference page. In other words, do not write this: According to “ Alcoholism Treatment in the United States An Overview” by Richard K. Fuller, M.D.(2014) in the journal Alcoholism, blah, blah, blah.
Your paper will be at least 4 complete, typed, double-spaced pages with 1.0” margins (left indented only, not block formatted) in Times New Roman font, 12-point size. Do not skip extra spaces between paragraphs (Microsoft Word now skips 2.5 spaces between paragraphs so you must change this in “format” – click “do not add space to paragraphs of the same style”). The paper can be longer than 3 pages of research. If you choose not to include a cover sheet, that is fine. On the first page, nothing should be there except the paper title – no date, no class name, not my name, not your name, no page numbers, no headers or footers on any pages. This is a paper about the latest experiments on your topic, so you must write it in essay format, without bullet points, lists, or subsection titles. You will not write an abstract. Paragraphs should be a minimum of 6 sentences. You need a minimum of 3 references for this paper, which may only include journal articles and an approved website (only one of these). You must use at least ONE journal article from our library database. Do not use any type of book as a reference, including your textbook. Do not use interviews, historical information, case studies, literature reviews, or meta-analyses. Your references should be no older than 2012. You are not allowed to use a website for the paper until I approve of the site beforehand. A few exceptions to this include: psychologicalscience.org, apa.org, NIMH.gov, NIDA.gov, and any website I directed you to in the online classroom. You can’t use any “.com” because there is no one to govern the truth of many of these sites. IMPORTANT: When you are using someone else’s work to write your paper, you must give them credit. You must cite your references in every paragraph of the research report section of your paper; this should be done in either APA format (see www.apastyle.orgLinks to an external site. and the way your textbook is written) or in MLA format. APA format means you include the author’s last name and the year of publication ONLY of the article, inside parentheses, when you are referencing their experiments. The following is an example of a sentence from a paper on depression: Many times depression is linked to anxiety (Myers, 2020).
Here is what a website would look like as a cited source: (www.apa.org). The full http address will be in the reference page; do not include the full address in your paper.
The important thing to remember here is NOT TO PLAGIARIZE the information. CITE your references in EVERY paragraph, and USE YOUR OWN WORDS! Please do not copy word for word from your sources unless you put those words in quotation marks. You may not use quotes longer than one sentence, and you may not have more than 3 sentence quotes in the paper. Do not quote someone else’s quote. Do not cite a source after every sentence if it is the same source for the whole section or paragraph. You simply summarize what you have read using plain English. Do not write scientific jargon (such as lists of prescription drugs or the ingredients of drugs, brain areas we did not cover in class, etc) that is not understandable without a medical degree. If you do not use all of your own words, and do not properly cite your sources, this is plagiarizing and grounds for cheating. I will either give your paper back to you to re-do OR I will simply give you a zero.
You will be required to upload your paper to a plagiarism site when you upload it in the assignments tab. If your final paper comes back more than 20% highlighted as plagiarized, then I may not accept it. Of course, I do not count the reference section as plagiarized if it is highlighted.