Paper must include:
Title Page with title that includes variables and what you’re looking for, running head, pg number, group members per APA format
A paragraph about your study’s purpose
Literature review: Using articles from your literature search, prove your purpose.
What did the authors do? What did they find? How did they interpret their findings?
How do these studies relate to what you’re looking for?
Are you expanding on their research?
Is your purpose similar?
Do you have conflicting findings?
If you do, make sure you point out that they’re conflicting studies and explain why you still think your study is relevant
Make sure you cite all findings. Anything that is not common knowledge and is clearly a finding from the study should be cited.
Page numbers are only necessary if you use direct quotes.
Do not use more like 3 direct quotes. Using more than 3 direct quotes will result in losing 2 points for each additional quote.
Hypothesis placed after the literature review:
Must be related to articles
Should include expected direction
If you have conflicting findings, your hypothesis should be non-directional, but should be clear that’s the reason why it’s non-directional
Hypothesis should include IV and DV
Works Cited page at the end in APA format
Despite the fact that this is a research assignment, this is still a paper. Transition sentences are still necessary and the rules of writing an essay still apply.
How is a child’s literacy development affected with working parents vs. those who choose to stay at home.
