APA Format Mental Health Disorder Research Paper Guidelines The psychology depar

APA Format Mental Health Disorder
Research Paper Guidelines
The psychology department requires
that each student in Psychology 1
complete a paper. You may NOT use a
paper you turned in for any other class.
You may choose any disorder covered in
the textbook to write. It will be at least
five pages complete, APA Format, typed,
double-spaced pages with 1.0″ margins
(left indented only, not block formatted) in
Times New Roman font, 12-point size. Do
not skip spaces between paragraphs
(Microsoft Word now automatically puts
1.5 space between paragraphs, so you will
need to change this). The paper can be
longer than three pages of research
information. Please do not include an
abstract.
Your paper will be on a mental health
disorder of your choosing from chapter
15. Only choose one disorder, not a
category of disorders! The first page will
be your title page. You will write the
second page (only) as an autobiographical
or biographical statement of why you are
specifically interested in your topic. For
example, let’s say Major Depressive
Disorder interests you, you can write
about why that disorder interests you as
one page. The next two pages must be a
synopsis of the scholarly research journals
you read. For example, you can find
scholarly research journals on the causes
or treatments of the disorder and
summarize the research. You cannot use
interviews or stories of people as
evidence of empirical studies. Please do
not list each journal and explain it. You
must include a 5th page that will be a list
of all of your references (a bibliography).
The research paper must be written in
essay format, without bullet points, lists,
or subsection titles. You will not write an
abstract. You need a minimum of 3
references for this paper, which may
only include journal articles and approved
websites. Do not use any book as a
reference. Your references should be
newer than 2005.
You are not allowed to use websites for
the paper until I approve the site
beforehand. A few exceptions to this
include psychologicalscience.org, apa.org,
NIMH.gov, NIDA.gov, and any site I
directed you to in the classroom. You
can’t use any
“com” because there is
no one to govern the truth of many of
these sites which mean you can’t even
use wikipedia.com or any other “wiki” site!
When you are using someone else’s
work to write your paper, you must give
them credit. You must cite your references
in every paragraph of your paper; this
should be done in APA format (see
www.apastyle.org and the way your
textbook is written). APA format means
you include the author’s last name and the
year of publication ONLY of the article
inside parentheses when you are
referencing work they presented. The
following is an example of a sentence from
a paper on depression: Many times
depression is linked to anxiety (Myers,
2007).
The important thing to remember here
is NOT TO PLAGIARIZE the information.
CITE your references in EVERY
paragraph, and USE YOUR OWN
WORDS! Please do not copy word for
word from your references unless you put
it in quotation marks. You may not use
quotes longer than one sentence, and you
may not have more than five quotes in the
paper.The important thing to remember here
is NOT TO PLAGIARIZE the information.
CITE your references in EVERY
paragraph, and USE YOUR OWN
WORDS! Please do not copy word for
word from your references unless you put
it in quotation marks. You may not use
quotes longer than one sentence, and you
may not have more than five quotes in the
paper.
You must summarize what you have read
using plain English. Do not write scientific
jargon (such as lists of prescription drugs
or the ingredients of drugs) that is not
understandable without a medical
degree. If you do not use all of your own
words and do not accurately cite your
sources, this is plagiarizing and grounds
for cheating. I will either give your paper
back to you to redo or give you a zero.