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Research Paper Outline/Instructions
Title/Cover Page- Must be APA 7 compliant
- Part A: Introduction Paragraph
- Introduce your research problem and end with your thesis statement
- Part B: Literature Review
- Introduce your literature review using the 6-steps
- Select 3 articles for the review
- Objective summary #1
- Transition + Objective summary #2
- Transition + Objective summary #3
- Each article review should include following components – study purpose, methods – research design, data collection methods, study instrument, characteristics and location of the participants and results
- Summarize by comparing and contrasting methodologies, findings, and solutions to each research article
- Part C: Discussion
- Summarize your news article: the problem, location, and populations affected by the problem.
- What do you think should be done to fix this problem and why? (Refer to recommendations in research in literature review, when necessary.)
- Find a company/organization/policy that is doing a good job trying to solve this problem (this could be from another state or even country where populations are comparable).
- Provide evidence that the company/organization/policy has made an impact toward mitigating the problem.
- Use that company/organization/program as a basis for your recommendation.
- Connect this recommendation to the research problem. How do you see it working toward finding a solution to the problem? For example, if Apple is doing really well tackling a problem that Google is challenged with, you could suggest to Google to adopt a strategy used by Apple.
- Part D: Conclusion
- Summarize your paper
- References
- Must be APA 7 compliant
- Ensure:
- All in-text citations are listed on the references page
- All sources listed on the references page is also cited in-text
