Please submit a 500-1,000 word paper that identifies the topic of your project and the primary aims of this. Your paper, in-text citations, and reference list should be in APA format.
In creating your topic statement, consider the following:
Briefly discuss the topic you are researching. Consider: What is your topic? What is interesting about your topic? Why are you drawn to studying your topic? Why would someone else be interested in your topic?
What do you know about this topic from courses you have taken and/or academic literature? Please list an initial literature review of several academic journals and/or books that you have looked at. These sources may change as you continue with your project but at this stage, you should have completed some reading.
How are you going to narrow your topic into a project doable in fifteen weeks? What search terms will you use? Where will you concentrate your efforts? How will your research give insight into the topic you have chosen?
State your research question.
Please Include:
Peer-reviewed sources:
Friendly reminder that the 15 of your final sources must be peer-reviewed.Selecting peer-reviewed articles to include in your paper ensures that you are citing quality research and lends validity to your arguments.
In-Text Citations:
You must cite the source every time you incorporate research, words, ideas, data, or information that is not your own
Include an in-text citation when you refer to, summarize, paraphrase, or quote from another source. For every in-text citation in your paper, there must be a corresponding entry in your reference list and vice versa.
Reference Page:
Your references should begin on a new page separate from the text of the essay; label this page “References” in bold, centered at the top of the page (do NOT underline or use quotation marks for the title). All text should be double-spaced just like the rest of your essay.
