Your final assignment is where you will weave the elements from a few of your early assignments
(research question assignment, literature review assignment, and methods section) together and
continue to build upon them. In addition to these early sections you will also need to incorporate
your research analysis to create a coherent research paper that is 1015 pages in length. While it is
inappropriate (not to mention a violation of university policy) to cutandpaste from past assignments
in old courses into new ones, this research project is evolutionary and builds itself up from a research
idea to a completed product. For this reason, in this class it is permissible to paste the information (as
appropriate and as it makes sense) from your early assignments in this course into your final
assignment.
Format: Your research paper should include a title page, body, and reference page. Your paper
should have 1inch borders on all four sides, use times new roman12 point font, be double spaced,
and not have an extra space inbetween paragraphs. (You may need to turn this off in MS word by
going to “paragraph” and clicking “Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style”). Please
use APA parenthetical citation style with a references page.
Your research paper should include the following sections:
Introduction:
Please start with an abstract of between 150200 words on a page of its own.
The introduction section should be written last and should pull from some of the elements of your
week 2 assignment. You will need to clearly provide an overview of the topic you are writing about, a
concise synopsis of the issues, state your research question, and discuss why the situation is
important to investigate. Writing the introduction last is helpful in ensuring that you’ve incorporated
any changes that may have taken place over the course of your research. This section should be 2
pages in length.
