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**This paper should be 10 pages minimum with your cover page and references page counting as only one page each of the page requirement. This means that even though your reference page may be more than one page long, it will only count toward one page of the 10 page minimum requirement.** General Comments on Formatting: Please be mindful that every page must have a page number at the upper right hand side of the page in the header section and an abbreviated title in the header on the left hand side of the page. This is referred to as a “Running head:”. DO NOT put the abbreviated title/running head and page number in the footer or at any other part of the page and make sure that the formatting of your paper is typed, double spaced, and in 12 point Times New Roman font. Your document must be submitted in a Microsoft Word Document. If you do not have Microsoft Word on your home computer, please consider writing the paper in google docs and exporting the file as a Word document. Then you can upload the document to Canvas from there. You can find a sample paper herein: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/apa_sample_paper.html • Be sure to use the example “APA 7 Professional Paper” and NOT the student paper example. • Please note that as mentioned in class, you do not have to write an abstract or author note in your paper. **Components/Sections that your paper must include: APA Style Cover Page – This page as with every page in the document includes a header that shows an abbreviated title for your paper. The center of the page should include the title of your paper, your name, your institution, in this case that’s LA Valley College, and the date of your submission. Do not include any graphics, oversized text, or stylized text other than standard Times New Roman 12 point font. Introduction (Literature Review) – This is the part of the paper that you will likely be most familiar with. Include a summary of all relevant research you are citing from peer-reviewed journal articles. Build your argument for why you need to research what you are proposing you should research. Do this by saying that previous authors’ works have led you to your question that, thus far, has not been researched, or has not been researched with enough detail. Be sure to include APA style in-text citations. You can find out how to do this here: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/in_text_citations_the_basics.html Research Question(s) – The question or questions you are proposing that you should study based on the results of your literature review. Hypothesis/Hypotheses – What you think you will find if you were to conduct and complete your study. Methods: This section is to outline the methods that you would use if you were actually administering your study. Here you will describe your population of interest, your sample including how many individuals you would try to have as participants. Be sure to think about relevant demographics such as ethnic, racial, gender, and socioeconomic characteristics when describing what sample you would like to have. How well your proposed participants reflect the demographic breakdown of your population will help determine how generalizable your results might be. Be sure to also mention how you will be collecting your data, where you will get your data from, what kind of IRB review you would anticipate for your study, and what research method(s) you will be using to help answer your questions (Will this be a quantitative or qualitative study? Will you utilize a survey method, case study method etc.). If you are unsure as to where to begin on this, please refer back to relevant lectures. Results: This section will be what results you would anticipate you’d find based on what you have read from preexisting studies. Be sure to note anything unique you believe you will find when compared to previously executed studies you have read as a result of your research design and be sure to justify this based on lecture materials, the book, and research. Discussion: Your discussion section is your conclusion. This should go point-by-point through your introduction, research question, hypotheses, methods and results and show how you addressed any questions that had not been answered by previous research/how it was addressed in your research. Essentially, the discussion section is where you tie everything in the paper together. The discussion section is also an area where you can generate theories based on what you anticipate the results for your study would be if you actually conducted it. As there are always things we do not answer/address in our own research designs and questions that still can be asked, this is an area where you are also to include 3 or more suggestions for future research that go beyond what you are proposing in this paper. For the entire paper, be sure to include APA style in-text citations. You can find out how to do this here: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/in_text_citations_the_basics.html References: All studies you have referenced in your literature review/introduction and any portion of your paper. These should be done in APA format. You can find appropriate APA citation here: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/reference_list_articles_in_periodicals.html