600-1

Your Name Goes Here

Graduate Psychology Department, Purdue University Global

PS598-##

Your Instructor’s Name

Due Date

Title of Your Paper Goes Here

Opening Paragraph and Thesis Statement: start with your opening paragraph. End this paragraph with your thesis statement.

After your opening paragraph, begin your introduction section. Address the following in your introduction section (writing in complete sentences and paragraph form):

· What is the purpose of your proposed study? Discuss the main problem or issue you are studying. Explain why the problem or issue is important. Be sure to provide supporting details and evidence to support your main ideas.

· Define your main variables, citing reputable, academic sources.

· Describe your population of interest, including their demographic characteristics, the number of people in the population, and any other characteristics that would be important for your readers to know. Describe how and in what ways the problems or issue affects your population of interest.

· Explain how conducting more research would help to address the problem or issue. Present your research question and explain how your proposed study would contribute to the research topic.

Literature Review

Add a brief introductory paragraph for your literature review, letting the reader know what to expect from the following sections.

Characteristics of the Research Studies

Write one to two paragraphs summarizing the characteristics of the studies you reviewed. Be sure to address the following in this paragraph(s):

· State how many articles you included in your literature review.

· Summarize the characteristics of the studies in your literature review. What populations were involved in the studies? Summarize the research methods and designs across the studies (e.g., five studies involved survey research and five were case studies). What type of measures did the researchers use in the studies? What types of interventions did the researchers use in the studies?

Section One (replace with your section heading)

Summarize the relevant research findings for the studies in this section. Provide further analysis of the research. For example, you could compare and contrast the findings across the research studies you review in each section.

Section Two (replace with your section heading)

Summarize the relevant research findings for the studies in this section. Provide further analysis of the research. For example, you could compare and contrast the findings across the research studies you review in each section.

[add sections as needed]

Conclusions and Hypothesis

Provide a summary of the major research findings you presented in the literature review, focusing on findings that support your hypothesis. Evaluate the major strengths and limitations of the research you reviewed as a whole. Present one or more high-level conclusions about the research in your topic area. Overall, what does the research literature tells us about your topic? What questions remain unanswered (i.e., your research question). These high-level conclusions should directly relate to your research hypothesis and lead naturally into your hypothesis statement. End this section with your hypothesis, which should naturally flow from your high-level conclusions.

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