Paper III

General Paper Format (This section is identical to the Papers I and II Checklists)

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1. Is everything in your paper in a legible and consistent font?

2. Is everything in your paper double spaced, including references (here I mean the spacing above and below each line, not the spaces following a period)?

3. Do you have one-inch margins on all sides of the paper (one inch from the top

of the page, one inch from the bottom, and one inch from each side)

4. Are the first lines of all paragraphs indented roughly ½ inch?

5. Are your paragraphs aligned left? (That is, text should be flush left, with lines lining up on the left of the page, but text should NOT line up on the right side of the page – it should look ragged)

Title page (This section is identical to the Papers I and II Checklists)

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Header

1.

Do you have a page number (1) that is flush right (same font as your paper, in a legible print)?

Title / Name / Institution

2.

Is your title 12 words or less (as recommended by the APA)? Is the title centered and bolded in the upper half of the page?

3.

Does your title describe your general paper theme (while avoiding something blank like “Paper Three: Literature Review”)? Note that your header and title can differ!

4.

Do all title words with four letters or more start with a capital letter?

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Are your title, name, institution, professor & course name, and due date in the title page?

Literature Review (This section is nearly identical to Paper I)

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Title for the literature review

1. Do you have the identical title you used on the title page rewritten at the top of your literature review?

2. Is this title centered and bolded?

3. Does your literature review start on page 2?

Main body of the literature review

1. Does your literature review start broadly, giving a brief overview of the study?

2. Do you seamlessly include 1 new paragraph, reviewing literature for the second IV, right after the literature review from Paper I but before the hypotheses?

3. Does your literature review narrow down toward your hypotheses?

4. Do your paragraphs transition from one to the next? (That is, avoid simply listing studies you read. Tie them together. How does Study A in paragraph A relate to Study B in paragraph B?)

5. Does your paper end in your very specific hypotheses? (You will lose points

if your paper doesn’t provide the specific predictions!)

6. Did you make sure your predictions are written in the past tense?

Citations for the literature review

1. Did you cite a maximum total of 3 references (1 brand new one). Is the article you found a peer-reviewed empirical source?

2. Are your citations in APA format (That is, ONLY the last name of the author(s) and date of publication)?

a. Note that you do NOT include first names, initials, or the title of the article the authors wrote when citing. That information belongs in the references pages only.

b. Also note that you only use an ampersand – the & symbol – when it occurs within parentheses. In other instances, use the word “and”

3. Are all of the sources in the References page included in your narrative?

4. If you quoted, did you provide a page number for the direct quote?

5. If you paraphrased in any way, did you cite the source of that information?

References Page (This section is similar to Paper I, but with 3 total references)

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Title for the references page

1. Do references start on their own page?

2. Is the word “References” centered and bolded?

References – Make sure these are in APA format!

1. Are references listed in alphabetical order (starting with the last name of the first author listed) for all 3 articles you referenced?

2. Are all citations from the literature review referenced?

3. Is the first line of the reference flush left while subsequent lines are indented (Note: Use the ruler function for this. DO NOT simply tab)?

4. Did you use the “&” symbol when listing more than one author name?

5. Did you include the date of publication?

6. For article references, is the article title not italicized and with only the first word and proper names starting with a capital letter?

7. For article references, is the name of the journal present and italicized with all major words starting with a capital letter?

8. For article references, is the volume number italicized?

9. For article references, are the page numbers present and not italicized?

10. For article references, is the DOI present or stable URLs if available?

Writing Quality

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1. Did you address all of the feedback suggested in Paper I?

2. Did you proofread your paper and go to the writing center to make sure your paper flows well?

2. Did you use the past tense (which is recommended, since your papers in this class will reflect work you already did rather than work you will do)?

3. Did you use a scientific / objective terms like “people”, “participants”. “users”,

“readers”, etc. (as opposed to subjective words like “you”, “we”, “me”, “I”, or “us”, etc.)?