Before completing this assignment, please review the Full Research Paper and Assignments 1-3 General Instructions. You will also need to complete the following modules:- Discussion- References.For Assignment #3, you will submit a draft of your discussion and references portions of your your APA-style manuscript. Other sections will be completed in the earlier assignments.Completing these drafts will: a) encourage you to start your project early, b) provide practice for your APA writing, and c) give you opportunities for feedback (from your peers and the TAs) before submitting your full research paper.Remember: You will submit Assignment #3 through this submission tool, but must also submit through the workshop tool for Peer Reviews. Both submissions are due by 11:59pm. TAs will grade your assignments out of 10 points each.A complete Assignment #3 will include:
a) A discussion, including comments on:
i. how the results of the study compare to the hypotheses (1 paragraph);
ii. whether or not the results are supported by the previous literature (1 paragraph);
iii. the strengths and limitations of the study (including comments on how well you operationalized your variables; whether you can generalize the results of your study to other participants or other settings; the statistical validity of the study in terms of the significance and strength of any effects; and whether or not you can rule out alternative explanations or confounds and make a causal claim about your data; 2-4 paragraphs); and
iv. future directions for this line of research (including 2 concrete suggestions for what future studies might investigate to build on your project, with only one suggestion involving a different sample/population; 1 paragraph).
b) A references section, listing all sources cited in the paper in APA format.
This assignment must adhere to APA-style and will be marked accordingly.
Format: Assignments must be saved as a .pdf, an .rtf document, a .doc document or a .docx document. Assignments submitted in other formats will not be graded. It is your responsibility to ensure that your assignment has been submitted in one of the approved formats.
Font and margins: The font will be Times New Roman 12 pt font, and you must have 1 inch margins.
Page limit: 5 pages total (3-4 pages for the discussion, and 1-2 pages for the references). To achieve the highest grade, you must adhere to this page limit.
Cited articles: You will also need to upload a copy of the 5 articles you are citing in your paper. Uploading the pdf of each paper is appropriate (you are allowed to upload multiple documents before hitting the send for marking button).
To upload your assignment click on the “Add submission” button on the bottom of the page (below the grading rubric). Then click on “Add” to upload files, or drag and drop them from your computer. Remember, files must be in .pdf, .doc, .docx, or .rtf format; make sure that you can see this file extension at the end of your document name (e.g., Assignment1.docx). Then click on “Save changes” at the bottom of the screen. Your “Submission status” will now say “Submitted for grading”.
