Final Paper

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

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1. Is everything in your paper (including headers, the main body of your mini-literature review, and your references) in 12 point Times New Roman 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)

6. Do you need help figuring out how to configure a word document in APA format (inserting headers, page numbers, indents, etc.)? If YES or NO, I recommend watching this video which walks you through setting up an APA formatted paper! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt4HdjyvZBs

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

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Header

1. Is your header title in ALL CAPS, and is it a shorter version of your real title?

2. Is your Running head in 12 point Times New Roman font?

3. Do you have a page number that is flush right (also in 12 point Times New Roman font)?

4. Is your header title 50 characters or less (including spaces and punctuation)?

Title / Name / Institution

1. Is your title focused and short, avoiding unnecessary words and abbreviations that serve no purpose (as recommended by the APA)?

2. Does your title describe your general paper theme (while avoiding something bland like “Paper Three: Literature Review”)? Note that your header should be a shorter version of your title (For example, the first few words are fine)

3. Do all title words with three letters or more start with a capital letter?

4. Is your title in bold?

5. If your title is longer than one line, is it double-spaced (like everything else in your paper)?

6. Are your name and institution correct?

7. Are your title, name, and institution elements centered and in 12 point Times New Roman font?

Abstract (This section is all new)

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Header

1. Is your header title present and identical to your header title on the title page?

2. Is your header title in ALL CAPS and 12 point Times New Roman font?

3. Do you have a page number starting on page 2

Abstract

0. 1. Is the word Abstract centered at the top of the page and in bold?

0. 2. Does the abstract start on its own page (page 2)

0. Did you identify your problem or research question?

0. Did you note your participants?

0. Did you note your experimental method?

0. Did you note your findings?

0. Did you note your conclusions?

0. Did you identify your problem or research question?

0. Is your abstract between 150 and 200 words?

0. Did you include at least five keywords or key phrases?

Literature Review Study One (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? Is it in bold?

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 one to come?

2. Does your literature review start to narrow down toward your hypotheses?

3. 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?)

4. Does your paper end in your study one hypotheses? (More specifically, you should have a hypothesis for your main dependent variables).

Citations for the literature review

1. Did you cite a minimum of 5 references (all peer-reviewed resources)? Note that you can give a lot of detail for some references but only a sentence or two for others. How much detail you go into depends on how important the article is in helping your support your hypotheses.

2. Are your citations in APA format (That is, ONLY the last name of the author(s) and date of publication)? Note that you will NOT include first names, initials, or the title of the article the authors wrote when citing. That information belongs in the references pages only

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

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

5. Did you cite everything that sounded like it was factual information?

6. Did you make sure the period follows the citation rather than coming before it?

7. If there are two authors, did you cite both of them? If in parentheses, did you use the & symbol? If outside of parentheses, did you use the word “and”?

8. If there are three or more authors in the same citation, did you use the phrase et al. every time you cited them?

Methods Section Study One (This section is identical to Paper II – Methods Study One)

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Title for the methods section

1. Is the word “Methods” centered and in bold? (Note: No page break needed)

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Participants

1. Do you have the word “Participants” flush left and in bold, right below the word “Methods”?

2. Did you list out your demographic characteristics, including gender, age, and ethnicity / race?

3. Did you provide the descriptive statistics for (means and standard deviations) for age and italicize the letters M and SD?

4. Did you provide frequencies for gender and ethnicity/race and italicize the N?

5. Did you refer readers to Table 1 for the full listing of demographic tables?

Materials and Procedure

5. Is the phrase “Materials and Procedure” flush left and in bold?

6. Did you mention informed consent? (Most likely oral consent for study one)

7. Did you discuss any instructions the participant may have read?

8. Did you thoroughly describe any stimulus material that might have occurred before your actual independent variables (and photos, descriptions, profiles, questions, puzzles, etc.) that are a part of your study?

9. Did you thoroughly describe your independent variable (IV) in enough depth and detail that another researcher could recreate your materials?

10. Did you give your IV a name that matches up with the name you refer to in the results section?

11. Did you describe all of your most relevant dependent variables, noting the scales you used (e.g. “Yes / No”, “A scale ranging from 1 (not at all likely) to 9 (very likely))” for EACH of your DVs?

12. Did you fully describe what participants went through in the study, noting the order in which they received study materials (e.g. first informed consent, then IVs, DVs, and debriefing)?

13. Did you fully describe your attention check (manipulation check) with enough detail that a reader unfamiliar with your study could recreate it, and did you include the scale for that attention check question?

14. Did you use the past tense when describing your methods (seeing how you already collected the data, and therefore do not discuss what participants will do)?

Results Section Study One (This section is identical to Paper II – Results Study One)

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Results

1. Do you have the word “Results” centered and in bold, immediately following the methods section? Is it in bold?

2. Was the first dependent variable you looked at your manipulation check

3. Did you analyze at least two different dependent variables for your other two analyses?

a. Note: Often your instructors prefer that you run two different ANOVAs. Ask them if they want a t-Test as one of the analysis.

4. Did you mention all of the IVs and the DV by name when talking about your analysis?

5. Did you include means and standard deviations within parentheses for each level of your independent variable?

6. If your ANOVA was significant, did you include post hoc tests?

7. Did you italicize the letters F, t, p, M, SD, and X2 (where appropriate)?

8. Did you round ALL numbers to two decimal places (with the exception of the p value, which can go as low as p < .001 or p = .001).

Discussion Section Study One (This is identical to Paper II – Discussion Study One)

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1. Do you have the word “Discussion” centered and in bold, immediately following the results section?

2. Did you remind your reader of your hypothesis?

3. Did you mention whether you supported or did not support your hypothesis?

Literature Review Study Two (This section is nearly identical to Paper III)

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Title for the literature review

1. Do you have some title that denotes the start of study two (e.g. something as simple as “Study Two”)?

2. Is this title centered? Is it in bold?

3. Does your literature review start immediately after the study one discussion (there should be no page break unless it occurs naturally)

Main body of the literature review

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

2. Does your literature review start to narrow down toward your hypotheses?

3. 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?)

4. Do you tie in your new IV with your original study one IV, showing how they might interact?

5. Does your paper end in your study one hypotheses? (More specifically, you should have a hypothesis for your main dependent variables).

Citations for the literature review

1. Did you cite an additional 3 references? Note that you can give a lot of detail for some references but only a sentence or two for others. How much detail you go into depends on how important the article is in helping your support your hypotheses.

2. Are your citations in APA format (That is, ONLY the last name of the author(s) and date of publication)? Note that you will NOT include first names, initials, or the title of the article the authors wrote when citing. That information belongs in the references pages only

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

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

5. Did you cite everything that sounded like it was factual information?

6. Did you make sure the period follows the citation rather than coming before it?

9. If there are two authors, did you cite both of them? If in parentheses, did you use the & symbol? If outside of parentheses, did you use the word “and”?

10. If there are three or more authors in the same citation, did you use the phrase et al. every time you cited them?

Methods Section Study Two (This section is identical to Paper III – Methods Study Two)

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Title for the methods section

1. Is the word “Methods” centered and in bold at the top of your methods page?

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Participants

1. Do you have the word “Participants” flush left and in bold, right below the word “Methods”?

2. Did you list out your demographic characteristics, including gender, age, and ethnicity / race?

3. Did you provide the descriptive statistics for (means and standard deviations) for age and italicize the letters M and SD?

4. Did you provide frequencies for gender and ethnicity/race and italicize the N?

5. Did you refer readers to Table 5 for the full listing of demographic info?

6. Did you use the brand new participant set from study two and NOT the set from study one?

Materials and Procedure

1. Is the phrase “Materials and Procedure” flush left and in bold?

2. Did you mention informed consent? (You can mention the same oral informed consent from Study One)

3. Did you thoroughly describe your two independent variables in enough depth and detail that another researcher could duplicate your materials (though you can refer back to study one if the variable is identical)?

4. Did you give your IVs names that matches up with the names you refer to in the results section?

5. Did you describe all of your most relevant dependent variables, noting the scales you used (e.g. “Yes / No”, “A scale ranging from 1 (not at all likely) to 9 (very likely))” for EACH of your DVs?

6. Did you fully describe what participants went through in the study, noting the order in which they received study materials (e.g. first informed consent, then IVs, DVs, and debriefing)?

7. Did you use the past tense when describing your methods (seeing how you already collected the data, and therefore do not discuss what participants will do)?

Results Section Study Two (This section is identical to Paper III – Results Study Two)

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1. Do you have the word “Results” centered and in bold, immediately following the methods section?

2. Did you analyze at least one dependent variables (a 2 X 2 ANOVA)?

3. Did you mention all of the IVs and the DV by name when talking about your analysis?

4. Did you include means and standard deviations within parentheses for each level of your independent variables?

5. If your factorial ANOVA was significant, did you include follow up simple effects tests? (That is, do you have seven total F tests)?

6. Did you italicize the letters F, t, p, M, SD, and X2 (where appropriate)?

7. Did you round ALL numbers to two decimal places (with the exception of the p value, which can go as low as p < .001 or p = .001).

Discussion Section Study Two (This section is identical to Paper III – Discussion Study Two)

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1. Do you have the word “Discussion” centered and in bold, immediately following the results section?

2. Did you remind your reader of your study two hypothesis?

3. Did you mention whether you supported or did not support your study two hypothesis?

General Discussion (This section is all new)

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Title for the references page

1. Does the discussion come right at the end of the results section (the discussion does NOT start on its own page)?

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

Discussion Content

1. Did you provide a brief summary of your hypotheses and then note whether your results supported or did not support your hypotheses?

2. Did you avoid restating your statistics and instead use everyday language?

3. Did you mention your study limitations?

4. Did you mention potential follow-up studies

5. IF you cited in this section, did you cite using APA formatting?

References Page (This section is identical to Paper I and Paper III: Study Literature Reviews)

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Title for the references page

1. Do references start on their own page?

2. Is the word “References” centered? Is it in bold?

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 8 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 (which is not italicized) with only the first word and proper names starting with a capital letter?

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

8. For article references, is the volume number italicized

9. For article references, are the page numbers present (not italicized)

10. For article references, is the DOI present

Tables Section – Both Studies (This section is similar to Papers II and III – Appendix)

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1. Do your tables come at the end of the paper?

2. Do each of your tables start on their own page?

3. In Table 1 (Demographics Study One), do you have SPSS tables for gender, ethnicity, and age? (Note: Age might be in a general “statistics” table, but you should have specific frequency tables for both gender and ethnicity)

4. In Table 2 (Chi Square Study One), do you have the crosstabs table (with percentages) plus the chi square test (with Pearson)?

5. In Table 3 (ANOVA Study One), do you have the descriptives table, the ANOVA table, and the post hoc table for your first dependent variable?

6. In Table 4 (ANOVA or t-Test Study One), do you have the descriptives table, ANOVA (or t-Test) table, and post hoc table (for the ANOVA) for your second dependent variable?

7. Do the analyses in Tables 3 and 4 focus on DIFFERENT dependent variables? (Make sure you answer YES on this one!)

8. In Table 5 (Demographics Study Two), do you have SPSS tables for gender, ethnicity, and age for study two? (Note: Age might be in a general “statistics” table, but you should have specific frequency tables for both gender and ethnicity)

9. In Table 6 (2 X 2 ANOVA Study Two), do you have the descriptives table and 2 X 2 ANOVA table dependent variable?

Writing Quality

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1. Did you proofread your paper, go to the writing center, go to the research methods help center, or use the Pearson writer 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.)? Note that you can use the word “I” when referring to your own work.