Research Paper
The paper will review, in depth, a topic in abnormal child or adolescent development. Your paper should summarize fundamental issues, questions, and controversies (if there are any) and present current research on the topic. To accomplish this, you will need a minimum of five recent research articles (published within the past five years) to illustrate relevant points. The one requirement for your selected research articles is that they must have appeared in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. (You may wish to consult the library staff or your instructor to determine whether a particular journal is peer-reviewed.) You may not use the course text or newspaper or magazine articles as one of your five references, but they are sometimes useful when they lead you to an appropriate research article. This paper should focus on current research, as opposed to background information that could be found in a textbook.
Your paper is to be seven to ten pages (not including title page or reference page), or about 1,800 words, in length. It must be typed, double spaced, with one-inch margins, and fully referenced in the format specified in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (see http://www.apastyle.org/index.aspx). Check the Course Schedule in this syllabus for the due date.
The text of your paper should be preceded by an abstract (about 100 words) that summarizes the key points in the paper (i.e., a statement of the problem, major findings, and conclusions). Sub-headings based on content are a plus (NOT subheadings such as “methods” and “results,” because you are not writing a journal article, but content headings such as “Cognitive Effects of ADHD,” etc.). The paper will be graded on content, organization, and writing mechanics and style. Please submit this under the “assignments” tab.
Examples/ideas of abnormal topics that you can write about related to child or adoelcent development: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) ,Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Conduct disorder, Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia, Depressive and Bipolar Disorders, Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders.
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