Research papers are required to be written in APA formatting. Therefore, papers will include the following:
A title page. The upper left hand corner will have your running head (the title of the paper), and on the upper right, page 1. Centered will be your name, the title of the paper, CD 135, Instructor Mark Jacobs, and the date the paper is submitted.
An abstract page. Again, the running head needs to be on the upper left, and on the upper right, p. 2. On this page, you will include an abstract which is a paragraph summarizing what the paper is about. You will also explain what inspired you to pick this particular topic to research. Is this a topic that affects you personally or had affected you personally in the past? If so, how?
Body of the paper. Again, be sure that the running head is on the upper left, and on the upper right, the page number. This is where you report on what you learned from your minimum 3 sources. As you do this, please use as much of your own words as possible. Please don’t spend the entire paper merely copying and pasting from your sources! Also, as you report on what you learned, discuss how all of this is important to you personally (as a parent, as a teacher, as a childcare advocate, etc). Finally, you will include APA formatted citations. The citations will acknowledge what you got from which sources.
References page. Again, be sure that the running head is on the upper left, and on the upper right corner the page number. On this page, you will list your resources, using APA formatting.
