Research Paper

 

 

  

Note that italics are recommendations, while normal font is what you might write: Introduction

o Discuss the population, stage of development and the disorder/challenge that is beingaddressed. This should be a couple of paragraphs, and THOROUGH! o For some of you, perhaps you might narrow your “stage” even further to only one the “tablelegs” such as the cognitive aspect…or social aspect.., etc.o TRICK TO TRY: I have always written my introductions last! That is, I save a space and makea few phrases;  but after writing the whole body, I seem to have better clarity into what I’dplace in the introduction.

 Literature

o Use subheadings under this section header. How many and what they are depends on you(one theme, two themes, three…). Perhaps you might group those according populations?Perhaps towards developmental factors (physical, cognitive, social, emotional/personality,spiritual)? Perhaps based on measures that were used? Perhaps based on the differentsubtypes of the disorder? Perhaps cultural aspect? In the following example, I’m usinginterventions that hope to ameliorate the disorder I’ve chosen; the developmental aspect isnarrowed to emotional/personality; and isn’t quite narrowed to one developmental stage(which I DO recommend). o DO NOT USE BULLET POINTS!!!!!!! USE PARAGRAPHS UNDER SUBHEADERS!!!!!! Andremember that the main headers are what?... exactly, “centered and capitalized”according to APA style. o TRICK TO TRY:  If you can’t see the themes, sit at a table/desk/floor and start to develop twopiles based on something…then perhaps you’ll notice you’ll need three…or four…nope, threewas enough, because pile three was the combo between one and two. Whatever. o (Here might be a subheading of the first theme you see in the 20 source…let’s say it’s“Flowers”). You might say that “Research indicates that daisies improve the mood of someclients (A, 2001; B, 2013, C, 2011). However, C reported that it only worked withTellatubbies and not the general population (2011). Further, the daisies were ofteninternational, suggesting perhaps a variable that might flaw conclusions based on

these studies. D and E (2011) noted that “roses, in every [subject] they studied, increased ‘glum’scores to ‘chipper’ scores according to the Beck Depressions Inventory (BDI).Numerous later studies corroborated these findings using the FF Scale (F, 2012),children (G, 2013), or the elderly (H, 2013). Despite changes in populations ormeasures, roses to seem to affect mood. More stuff perhaps. A mini-summary might go hereo (Here might be a subheading of the second theme you see in the 20 source…let’s say it’s“Balloons”).