5 Page Research Paper

Research Paper

Basic requirements:

1. 5 pages minimum

a. Only the prose or narrative parts will count. Graphs and tables (Even not enclosed) are encouraged but they will not be part of the page count. See other attached document.

2. Double-spaced

3. Font: Time New Roman 11 pts

4. Style: APA

· APA details the use of two types of footnotes: content and copyright.

a. When using either type of footnote, insert a number formatted in superscript following almost any punctuation mark. Footnote numbers should not follow dashes (— ), and if they appear in a sentence in parentheses, the footnote number should be inserted within the parentheses.

Scientists examined—over several years1—the fossilized remains of the wooly-wooly yak.2 (These have now been transferred to the Chauan Museum.3)

b. When using the footnote function in a word-processing program like Microsoft Word, place all footnotes at the bottom of the page on which they appear. Footnotes may also appear on the final page of your document (usually this is after the References page). Center the word “Footnotes” at the top of the page. Indent five spaces on the first line of each footnote. Then, follow normal paragraph spacing rules. Double-space throughout.

1 While the method of examination for the wooly-wooly yak provides important insights to this research, this document does not focus on this particular species.

c. Content Notes

Content Notes provide supplemental information to your readers. When providing Content Notes, be brief and focus on only one subject. Try to limit your comments to one small paragraph.

Content Notes can also point readers to information that is available in more detail elsewhere.

1 See Blackmur (1995), especially chapters 3 and 4, for an insightful analysis of this extraordinary animal.

I am not expecting a novel or a dissertation. If you are finding too many sources under your topic, do not just discuss or include anything that is vaguely related (some of them maybe included in the footnote). Try to limit yourself to the topic chosen and if it is starting to get overwhelming if you have a lot of sources then maybe we could further narrow it done. Send me an email to discuss this possibility. I have to approve this.

Paper has to flow, meaning it has to be organized. Make sure the summary and conclusion includes only subject matter that has been previously discussed in the main body.

As I have been reminding most of you, this is a paper in an economics class and not history nor medicine. So as much as possible I would like to see dollar values, private costs and benefits as well as welfare (or societal) costs and benefits, budgets, expenses, and estimates of these.

Lastly, PROOFREAD BEFORE SUBMITTING. Also, sometimes having someone else read the paper helps in finding certain errors or flaws that the writer may overlook.