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Instructions for APA Style Review and Thesis Paper
You are all responsible for the completion of an APA style term paper. The paper must be about 10 pages (double-spaced, 12 point font) in length (including the title and reference pages). There must be at least 15 references from peer-reviewed journals.
You are to write a review of the current literature on a topic of your choice that relates to the field of biological psychology.
You also must not only review the literature, you must defend a certain theory or perspective. Another words, you must have a simple thesis to defend. This thesis does not need to be original. You must also provide alternative theories or perspectives as well in the document with support from the literature.
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All topics are discussed in clear detail. |
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2. Assertions are supported correctly. |
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3. Ideas are interrelated coherently and logically. |
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4. Author creatively enhances the topic. |
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5. An introduction previews main points of paper (a thesis would help here) |
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6. Body of paper develops and elaborates main ideas. |
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7. A conclusion summarizes main points. |
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8. Paper is free of mechanical errors (e.g., misspellings, typos, etc.). |
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9. Paper is grammatically sound (proper sentence structure). |
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10. Title page citations and references are in proper APA style. |
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