Environmental Stressors Related to False Confession

Environmental Stressors Related to False Confession

            Your introduction should be approximately 1.5-2 pages long. Begin the introduction with a compelling fact or statistic regarding your topic. Spend perhaps one paragraph doing this.

Follow that paragraph with an overview of research that you plan to cover in the main body of your paper. Obviously, you would not spend a lot of time going into detail here. Just give the most important info from each of the papers you plan to cover. This section should be no more than one page. There are several strategies you can take in setting this small section up, including going through information chronologically, or setting up initial debates in the literature you plan to cover.

Finally, include a paragraph making a case for the importance of your topic. Why might the reader be compelled to read through this? How does this work impact the field today? End this paragraph with a thesis statement, perhaps similar to the topic statement you submitted in the first assignment. IMPORTANT: Please note that this sample includes the structure for the INTRO section only.

Term Paper Main Body

Please note that only the INTRO is REQUIRED at this point in the assignment. You may complete the rest of the term paper and turn it in at the same time for an OPTIONAL REVIEW. There are different strategies to consider when putting together your term paper. First – remember the basics. The next paragraph is taken directly from your assignment overview.

The main text, consisting of intro, main body, and conclusion are to be 8 typed pages. It is recommended (though not required) to include at least one level of headings (APA “level 1”). All papers must be typed and double-spaced. All citations and references must be in the professional format of the American Psychological Association (APA), 6^th Edition.

As for the main body of your term paper, it should be approximately 5-6 pages. You should not only summarize the main references you have found for your paper, you should also write about them in a way that skillfully links them together, whether through debate or chronological summary.

There are different strategies that one might take to effectively review the referenced articles. One might engage in a broad to specific approach, where the basics are summarized in the beginning of the main body, and then the specific details are covered towards the end.

Another approach may be to set up the debate. Different psychological researchers may have reached different conclusions about the topic at hand. Do the researchers reference each other? If so, how does the debate unfold, perhaps historically? Can you summarize that debate in your paper? If so, this may be another strategy to take when writing the main body of your paper.

You might consider taking a topical approach. For instance, you may want to divide the main body of your paper into different sub-topics on your subject, including behavioral, neuroscience, and clinical considerations. If your paper covers a developmental topic, you may divide your main body into sections that review how your topic impacts different developmental age groups.

Ultimately, what I ask is that you not only summarize the articles that you found for your references, but that you willfully strategize about how you might piece your main body together. The above examples are ways that you might do this.

Conclusion

Your conclusion section needs to be about 1-1.5 pages long. The conclusion bears some similarity to the introduction, but also includes some key differences. Your conclusion might start with some of the key facts about your topic, a bit of a summary about the references you covered. Do not be afraid to re-use references here (Coyle & Dinh, 2016; James, Jung, & Loftus, 1999).

After this summary portion of your conclusion, you may want to include a section on ongoing issues or unanswered questions regarding your topic. This section also includes constructive criticism of some of the research you covered in the main body.

Finally, you should move the paper towards the future. What might future researchers do to answer some of the questions and to solve some of the problems that the field faces? End the conclusion on your paper looking forward towards the future of research on your chosen topic.