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Final APA Paper

Deadline: Your paper needs to be in the appropriate submission folder by Friday


4/26. Late papers will NOT be accepted.

Please remember that this entire paper is to be your own work in your own words.
Plagiarism will result in a zero on this assignment and you will be reported to the
academic integrity office.

Please make all changes suggested to you in your previous submissions. If you
don't make the changes, you risk losing points for the same mistakes again.

Expectations and grading rubric are below:

Title page (2 points/All or none):


- Include a descriptive and appropriate title.
- Make sure to include page numbers in the upper left-hand side of the page.
- Text should be double-spaced.

Abstract (5 points): This is a new section. Don’t forget to include it.


- This should be a summary of the research you conducted. It should have its own
page just after the title page (approximately 250 words).
- Your summary should include the relevant variables, hypotheses, and a brief
description of your participants, results (or main finding), and conclusion.
- Do NOT indent this paragraph.

Introduction (12 points) Remember to update your background and


hypotheses to match what you actually ended up analyzing and reporting.
- Do you state the problem or main idea of your study and why it matters?
- What do we know already and what still need to be done? Make sure to have
provided the appropriate background information and references to complete this.
- Have you conceptually defined your variables? (e.g., what is well-being? Social
support? Etc.)
- Have you used appropriate references (remember you need 10-15 total in your
paper and on your references page).
- Proofread for organization, spelling, and grammar. Your paragraphs should
logically flow into your problem statement and your research hypotheses.
- Clearly state your hypotheses (remember to update these if you have changed
them at all since our introduction sections were due).
- All references and prior literature should be paraphrased in your own words (do
NOT use quotes).
- Double check APA formatting.
Methods (8 points) Be sure to update this section since you now know who
exactly your participants were. This may require more use of SPSS to get exact
numbers. Also be sure that your paper is written in past tense.
- Who are your participants? Give a demographic breakdown of age, race, gender,
etc. You should reference your first table here if you include a frequency table (this
can be found in the tables template; remember that tables go at the very end of your
paper, after the references).
- What measures did you use. You should have 1 paragraph/section for each
measure you used. Operationally define your variables. If you include a table with
means and standard deviations of your measures, make sure you reference that
table in this section (again, this can be found in the tables template).
- What is the basic overall procedure you have used to complete your study. Be
specific so that if someone wanted to repeat your study they have enough
information to do so. Tell us how you analyzed your results and anything you had to
do to your variables in order to analyze your data.

Results (6 points)
- What are the results of your analyses? Do they make sense? Did you include
whether these supported or did not support you hypothesis? Did you clearly explain
the statistics used and why? Did you present the r (or t or F) and p values in the
text?
- Did you appropriately set up and refer to every table and/or figure that you have?
- Did you remind me what your variables are before telling me that something is
statistically different? Did you tell me what it was statistically different from (ex:
females were significantly higher than males…or height was significantly correlated
with weight)?
- Is it apparent why you ran each analysis?

Discussion (10 points)


- Restate your most important findings in the first paragraph. Did you make me
believe that it matters? Did you put these findings in the context of known
literature?
- Did you use appropriate references cited correctly (again, you need 10-15 sources
total)? Did you discuss why your findings make sense? Did you come up with a new
theory to explain why they don’t? If your hypothesis wasn’t significant, did you
explain the possibilities of why not? Did you do this for each
hypothesis/relationship?
- Did you remain free of speculation and back up your statements with sources? Did
you remain unbiased?
- Did you include a detailed and specific limitations section using correct
terminology? Did you include a section discussing the implications of this work?
Why does it matter?
- Did you address what future research should be aimed at doing?

References (5 points) MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AT LEAST 10-15 TOTAL


REFERENCES
- Did you use at least 10 peer-reviewed journal articles as sources? Have you
included every source that you’ve used (and not extra ones that you didn't) and
cited them in correct APA format?
- Did you use appropriate sources? Do they make sense? Were they used
appropriately in the text?
- Did they actually support or contradict your findings or are you stretching to make
them work?

Tables (3 points)
- Remember to include your correlation table. You may also have a frequency table
and a table of Means and Standard Deviations. You will need to reference them
somewhere in the text.
- Your tables should have their own section AFTER THE REFERENCES.
- Tables should be listed in the order in which they appear in your text and
numbered accordingly.
- Did you include an appropriate title and/or figure caption? Did you indicate
significance in your tables and figures?
- Is each one on its own page?

Writing style and overall APA format (4 points)


- Did your work flow logically? Was it easy to read and easy to follow? Did you use
appropriate transitions? Did you effectively integrate the material? Did you write
clearly? Did you have a thoughtful organization of ideas? Did you use appropriate
descriptions?
- Did you make sure that the overall paper was consistent—hypothesis matches
analyses, participants are correct, the intro and methods are updated to reflect what
you actually did?
- Did you use correct spelling and punctuation? Did you proofread your final
submission?
- Did you use past tense throughout? Did you use a correct font and correct size? Did
you use appropriate margins and spacing?
- Were the sections correctly labeled? What about any subsections? Were items
centered that should be centered? Did you use appropriate APA in all of the other
sections?
- Is it double-spaced throughout?

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