Tag: academic Psychology

academic Psychology. academic Psychology. 1) Write a 3-5 page research paper on a topic in current research for academic Psychology.  This must be your original work.  Sources are to include peer reviewed journal articles (e.g. primary sources) only.
2) Use APA style intext citations and reference page. Check out https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ for resources concerning APA style citations and references.  Note:  As this paper is not original research nor are you submitting it for publication, please do not include a header, a title page, or abstract (i.e. just start off with your topic sentence).
3) Format the paper to use 12 point font Times New Roman (the very same font this new items is written using). Use double spacing and 1 inch margins.  The paper must be a Microsoft Word document or you will receive a score of zero.  If there is no Work Cited page for your references, you will receive a score of 0 on this research paper.
4) Turn in your paper to the dropbox on this website that will close on December 1st.  There are no late papers accepted.
Please note that if you plagiarize (e.g. don’t cite someone else’s published work that you are using in your paper or fail to use intext citaitons or a reference page) you will receive a score of 0 on the paper.  This paper must be an original work of scholarship (you may not use a paper you have already written).
For those who’ve not written a paper like this before, please adjust your paper to represent a professional scientific voice.  That is, please never use personal possesive pronouns (e.g. I, me, we…etc.) as these pronouns relate to opinion pieces and editorials not professional science writing.  You are not writing a paper telling the audience what you think, you are giving them a synopsis of what science has said regarding the topic being considered.  If you are tempted to write, “I think autism is a disorder related more to the diagnostician than the symptoms” instead write “Autism is a disorder related more to the diagnostician than the symptoms.”

academic Psychology

academic Psychology