The final paper is the most significant assignment in this course and most activities throughout the course are in some way related to you gaining the knowledge and skills needed to successfully complete this written document. Your paper will include a results section and discussion section with created data based on the measures you propose to use. This is the data you were prompted to begin creating in the SPSS and Excel assignments. Create data that represents how you think the results will turn out. Then discuss those created results in the discussion section.

The final paper should be a complete APA style manuscript including all of the following:

Title Page (page 1)

Abstract (page 2)

Introduction (page 3)

Method (page will vary)

Results

Discussion

References (begin on a separate page)

Tables (begin on a separate page)

Figures (separate page w/o pagination)

Appendices

Research Paper Scoring Rubrics:

• MS Word version

• RTF version

In the context of this course, you are writing to demonstrate your understanding of the research process and topics covered.  Your audience is yourself, your instructor, and your peers that are also striving to demonstrate their ability to apply the steps of the research process.

The ideal application of your knowledge of the research process would be to have you actually conduct an investigation that you designed and write a complete report. To this end, this research paper will serve as the proposal for your Action Research project and can be used to write the final paper for that second course.