For the Final Paper, you will further develop the FG paper you identified in Week 09. This means you will keep the same topic as you had for the FG paper.

For the Final Paper, complete the following three major steps:

1. Respond to instructor feedback on the introduction.
2. Drop the Method, Findings, and Discussion.
3. Extend the paper by adding a partial literature review.

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Final Paper Instructions

Instructions

For the Final Paper you will develop further the Introductory Paper you submitted earlier this semester. This means you will keep the same topic as you had for the Introductory Paper.

For the final paper complete the following two major steps:

1. Respond to the instructor feedback on your Introductory Paper.
2. Extend the paper.

Step 1: Respond to instructor feedback

1. Respond to and apply every edit your section instructor made in their feedback.
   1. Take caremistakes made multiple times may only have been commented on once. Make sure to apply the highlighted correction throughout the paper.
   2. As a concrete example, perhaps you misused the &. It is likely your feedback did not highlight every repeat mistake. It is your responsibility to correct every misuse of the & there is in your paper.
   3. Do not use track changes (an option in Word) as you make your edits.
2. There may be a very small number (perhaps one or two) instances where you disagree with the feedback you received. It is therefore your responsibility to engage in respectful debate with your instructor to decide whether the feedback comment needs to be addressed. Instructors, like everyone, do make occasional mistakes in their feedback comments. Note though that the instructor has final say on whether a feedback comment is correct or not.
3. If any of the feedback is confusing to you make sure to request clarification on the feedback comments as soon as possible.
   1. Any debate or clarification about feedback comments must be initiated by within two weeks of receiving the feedback. Failure to do this means you must accept and implement any disputed feedback comment.

Step 2: Extend the paper

After completing the edits to the paper in step 1 you should now have a very polished introduction that reflects some of your best writing. In a traditional research paper you would now extend the paper by writing a comprehensive literature review. In this literature review you would cover the major areas related to your research question/hypothesis and summarize the research relevant to your topic. Make sure the heading Literature Review is used to indicate where your introduction ends and where your literature review starts.

As a concrete example suppose your research question was How do the lyrics of rap music influence Millennials perceptions of money and sex.

Looking at this research question it is possible to identify the major areas relevant to understanding this question. These major areas are (in the order they appear in the question not necessarily importance): 1) lyrical content, 2) rap music, 3) Millennials, 4) perceptions of money, 5) perceptions of sex.

1. Write about one of the major areas from your research question.
   1. You will not be able to cover everything in this major area due to page limits imposed by the time constraints of the course. Note, you do not gain extra points by going over the page limit and if you exceed the page limit by more than one page you will actually lose points. You are welcome to do more research and write more in your own time if you wish, and in the research practicum at the end of the program you can develop your ideas further with guidance from an instructor if you wish.
      1. Review the journal articles which contained literature reviews (which were most of them) from the course, and the readings on literature review for more guidance.
2. List in bullet point format the other major areas you would cover if you were to write an entire literature review.
   1. Returning to our earlier example of How do the lyrics of rap music influence Millennials perceptions of money and sex. You might write for the assignment about rap music. You could then list:
      • lyrical content
      • Millennials
      • perceptions of money
      • perceptions of sex

These could be the other four areas you would cover. You should not provide justification of why you selected these areas or excluded others. And simply listing the text in red in as simple format as shown here (i.e. bullet points and 25 words description) is sufficient. Prior to submission we will not review your proposed bullet points. Part of the assignment is for you to determine appropriate additional areas that should be covered.

A small number of you may find an article which answers the research question you are posing. At this point you may panic. Stop and do not panic. Even if you find a research article with an identical research question as yours there are a number of reasons why your paper remains important. 1) When was the article, which you believe is the same as yours, published? Even if published this year the data was likely collected last year and for many topics things change a lot in the space of a year. 2) Where did the study take place and who were the participants? Were they undergraduate students (typical), perhaps you tweak your question slightly to be about older or younger people. Did the study take place on the east coast or somewhere else with a different culture from where you propose your study?

Rewrite of introductory paper. You may look back at your introductory paper and want to rewrite additional material beyond what your grader commented on. This is fine. You can edit and change your introductory paper as much as you wish. We discourage you from changing topic or completely rewriting the introduction.

Summary of the final paper:

• Revised intro based on instructor feedback (not to exceed four pages and minimum of three pages).
• Start of literature review on a single major area from your research question/hypothesis (not to exceed five pages and a minimum of four pages).
• Total of 79 pages. While it is possible to score a good grade with an eight page paper it is very hard to achieve as you are not making effective use of the space available.

Title page and references do not count toward page count. There should be nothing about the method (e.g. surveys) in this final paper.

How many citations should there be? It varies from paper to paper. More citations is generally better. For every claim/fact/opinion/statement there should be a citation. Refer back to the citation count activity earlier in the semester for an approximate guide.

We do not review papers before submission. If you have specific questions about your paper you may discuss them with us but we do not review entire papers or pages of a paper.

When you submit your final paper there will be feedback provided by your instructor. This feedback includes the possibility there will be new feedback on your revised introduction. For instance, your revisions might need further revisions, or your edits might have resulted in sections of the paper which previously had no comments now needing additional edits.

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