SEE ATTACHMENTS and RUBRIC Assignment 4 Instructions
Title Page (Corrected from Assignment 2)
Make sure your assignment contains an updated title page from Assignment 2 incorporating the feedback from Assignment 2. Refer to APA Style link to see the specifics for a student paper title page in APA. Refer to Rubric below for grading.
Introduction/Background
- Introduce the topic and helpful background information.
For this assignment, you will add to your review by building the introduction and the conclusion. Remember, an introduction is “introducing” the reader to your topic (legalization of marijuana). You will start your introduction paragraph with a sentence that lets the reader know what the paper is about. Be creative, do not start your paper by saying “this paper is about…” Make a general statement about your topic that lets the reader know what he/she will be reading.
- Explain what is not known about the topic
Next, you will pull from the introductions of your five articles and find information that is “unknown” about your topic. Most of the time it is written before the research question or the aim of the study. In an example found in an article on Say All Fast Minute Every Day Shuffled (SAFMEDS), “it is not known as to which variation of SAFMEDS is more effective in teaching academic skills (Quigley et al., 2023).” Most of the time, there are multiple statements like this in each article’s introduction. I am only asking for you to pick one statement from each article. You will write this in your own words and you will cite each statement. I DO NOT want to see any quotations and you will be graded based on your citation formatting (since this was covered in Modules 2 and 3.
- Introduce the problem, concern, or theory; explain the focus and set up the scenario or setting for your review. Identify the question(s) your review will answer.
Then, you will end your introduction with one sentence that either summarizes the concern of your topic or a question that your review will address. For the example of SAFMEDS, “This review will address the concern of which variation of SAFMEDS provides students with the most correct responses.”
Literature Review (This Part Not Graded)
You will not be graded on this part of your assignment, but you will put your literature review here with the feedback corrected. Your conclusions will begin on the next double spaced line after the last article review.
Conclusion/Recommendations
Your conclusion will appear on the next, double-spaced line after your last article summary. Remember, you are “concluding” what your article summary just summarized. You provided the reader with concerns from your introduction, you stated what research states about your topic, now you are concluding (closing your paper) what your articles found.
- Remind readers of the main argument/big picture of your paper (1 sentence).
This is simply restating the sentence that you opened with. Instead, you are closing. For instance, you could write “This paper was about…” Notice I used the term “was” as in past tense sense the reader is concluding the paper. You can skip the “this paper was about…” and simply start with a sentence summarizing the topic of your paper. “The legalization of marijuana has… (summarize key points in your review). These are all examples. Make sure you only write one sentence for this part, otherwise you conclusion will become lengthy.
- Summarize the findings of each study (5 sentences with citations).
Then you will summarize what your articles have found. The expectation is that you provide one sentence per article. You will also cite your findings. Again with the example of SAFMEDS. The standard version of SAFMEDS, as suggested by the name, is the most effective method of teaching college students academic skills (Quigley et al., 2023). If more than one of your articles has the same findings, then you are allowed to provide two citations per finding. The standard version of SAFMEDS, as suggested by the name, is the most effective method of teaching college students academic skills (Owens, 2018; Quigley et al., 2023). If you provide multiple citations per fact, I will check each citation to verify that the findings correlate with your statement. Instead of writing five random findings, you will find a way to make them flow. For example, “Research findings suggest that the standard version of SAFMEDS is the most effective way to teach college students academic skills (Owens, 2018; Quigley et al., 2023). However, Johnson’s (2019) study suggests that students who conduct one review session before SAFMEDS end up receiving higher percentages of correct responses.” It is up to you to find a way to make your five findings flow.
- Suggest future research, calls to action, or next steps (cite which sources your suggestions come from).
This comes from your research articles. This is normally found in the discussion section of your articles. I do not want you to write 5 suggestions for future research. Select one that you think best fits your paper and topic. In your research articles, you will see a statement that is similar to “future studies should investigate the effectiveness of SAFMEDS on other populations such as middle aged or elderly people (Quigley et al., 2023).” Remember to cite where you got your information from.
Additional Requirements
- 12 point, Times New Roman
- Double Spaced
- Introduction and conclusion must have citations from all articles
- You cannot write in first person (I, me, we) nor second person (you).
- Do not use quotations, everything must be paraphrased (in your own words).
