Difference in neural activity of a thought vs a memory
Example Format for Final Paper
- Title Page
- Introduction
- States research question and hypothesis
- Form hypothesis by answering/predicting the answer to your research question
- What do you think you are going to find in your literature review?
- Outline what you will talk about in the rest of the paper
- States research question and hypothesis
- Literature review/Body
- Background/literature search (What has been found so far?)
- Completeness and style (Were studies described in sufficient detail? It is clear the student understood what they were describing?)
- Make sure each of your peer-reviewed articles are described and the findings from the article are explained help answer research questions
- Each paragraph representing one aspect of the paper’s main focus.
- Prioritize and organize your main points and paragraphs to logically build your arguments to a compelling conclusion.
- Each paragraph should include a topic sentence, evidence, analysis, and a transition sentence:
- The topic sentence summarizes the paragraph’s main idea
- Use evidence from your research sources to support or make the argument for your main ideas
- Analyze your evidence to show how it links to your broader research question
- Include a transition sentence at the end of each paragraph to connect what you discussed in that paragraph with the main idea of the next paragraph
- Discussion
- Integrate the findings from your peer-reviewed articles and cohesively connect them
- Summarize the main points and takeaways
- Describe whether they support or don’t support your hypothesis
- Conclusion
- Restate your hypothesis and research question
- What is the overall message received from your literature review?
- What can you conclude from you read in your articles?
- End with a strong, final statement that ties the whole literature review together and makes it clear the paper has come to an end
- References (Reference page? At least 3?)
- APA Style (Follow APA style in title page, body of paper, in-text citations, and references?)
- Proofreading/grammar/clarity (Typing errors? Comma errors? Incomplete sentences?)