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APA style includes the following:
o Title page
o Abstract
o Body
▪ Introduction: what is the topic you are writing about and why does it matter to research it?
▪ Body: review relevant literature
▪ Conclusion: summarize what you learned about your topic of interest throughout your research.
o Reference page
Paper Concept:
• You are basically doing a literature review on a topic from your Social Psychology class.
• You are expected to identify some key scholarly papers and review them in the paper.
• When reviewing a paper, briefly describe the paper’s purpose, methodology, results and conclusion.
• You should articulate how the papers you reviewed relate to your topic of interest.
• Remember, you are researching a topic that interests you, so you should learn something from your research.
• This is not a history paper or a social studies paper. This is a Social Psychology Research Paper.
Topic:
• Choose any topic at all from Social Psychology
• Do not be too broad that you have too much to review, or too narrow that you have nothing to review
• You can synthesize different topics if you like, but in the short amount of pages I recommend sticking to one specific topic.
References:
• “Scholarly references” means peer-reviewed journal articles
• A textbook is not a source itself as it is a review of other sources
• Wikipedia is not a scholarly source
• Magazine (including online) articles are not scholarly articles
• I recommend using the PsychInfo Database to locate your sources (or GoogleScholar)
• Tips:
o Find the topic in the textbook that interests you and locate the source
o Find other sources from the introduction of a source you like
o In PsychInfo you can find articles that have cited a specific article; so if you like an article, look to see other articles that have cited it. They may also interest you