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?

Students are to put together a complete literature review ending with a hypothesis for the Jury Paper and Proposal Paper. See syllabus for due dates.

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!