Checklist – Paper V: Final Pape
Use the check sheet below to make sure your paper is the best it can be! Make sure you answer “Yes” to all questions before submitting your paper! Some sections duplicate checklists from prior papers while those in purple focus on new Paper V: Final Paper elements.
General Paper Format (This section is identical to the Papers I, II, III, and IV Checklists)
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1. Is everything in your paper (including headers, the main body of your study one literature review, and references) in 12 point Times New Roman font?
2. Is everything in your paper double spaced, including references (here I mean the spacing above and below each line, not the spaces following a period)?
3. Do you have one inch margins on all sides of the paper (one inch from the top of the page, one inch from the bottom, and one inch from each side)
4. Are the first lines of all paragraphs indented roughly ½ inch?
5. Are your paragraphs aligned left? (That is, text should be flush left, with lines lining up on the left of the page, but text should NOT line up on the right side of the page – it should look ragged)
6. Do you need help figuring out how to configure a word document in APA format (inserting headers, page numbers, indents, etc.)? If YES or NO, I recommend watching this video which walks you through setting up an APA formatted paper! https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt4HdjyvZBs
Title page (This section is identical to the Papers I, II, III, and IV Checklists)
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1. Is your header title in ALL CAPS, and is it a shorter version of your real title?
2. Is your Running head in 12 point Times New Roman font?
3. Do you have a page number that is flush right (also in 12 point Times New Roman font)?
4. Is your header title 50 characters or less (including spaces and punctuation)?
Title / Name / Institution
1. Is your title focused and short, avoiding unnecessary words and a
eviations that serve no purpose (as recommended by the APA)?
2. Does your title describe your general paper theme (while avoiding something blank like “Paper Five: Final Paper”)? Note that your header and title can differ!
3. Do all title words with three letters or more start with a capital letter?
4. Is your title in bold?
5. If your title is longer than one line, is it double-spaced (like everything else in your paper)?
6. Are your name and institution co
ect?
7. Are your title, name, and institution elements centered and in 12 point Times New Roman font?
8. Does your title start three or four lines under the margin at the top of the page?
9. Are there two spaces between your paper title and your name?
Abstract (This section is all new)
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1. Is your header title present and identical to your header on the title page?
2. Is your header title in ALL CAPS and 12 point Times New Roman font?
3. Do you have a page number starting on page 2
Abstract
0. 1. Is the word Abstract centered at the top of the page and in bold?
XXXXXXXXXXDoes the abstract start on its own page (page 2)
XXXXXXXXXXIs the abstract paragraph itself not indented (i.e. it is flush left)?
0. Did you identify your problem or research question?
0. Did you note your participants?
0. Did you note your experimental method?
0. Did you note your findings?
0. Did you note your conclusions?
0. Did you identify your problem or research question?
0. Is your abstract between 150 and 250 words?
0. Did you include at least five keywords or key phrases?
0. Did you indent the first line of the keywords (but not subsequent lines)?
Literature Review Study One (This section is nearly identical to Paper I and III)
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No
Title for the literature review
1. Is your header title present and identical to your header from the title page?
2. Is your header title in ALL CAPS and 12 point Times New Roman font?
3. Do you have a page number starting on page 2
4. Do you have the same title as your title page, and is it centered and bold
Main body of the literature review
1. Does your literature review start
oadly, giving a
ief overview of the study one to come?
2. Does your literature review start to na
ow down toward your hypotheses?
3. Do your paragraphs transition from one to the next? (That is, avoid simply listing studies you read. Tie them together. How does Study A in paragraph A relate to Study B in paragraph B?)
4. Does your paper end in your study one hypotheses? (More specifically, you should have a hypothesis for your main dependent variables).
5. Did you make sure your predictions are written in the past tense?
6. Is your paper at least two pages long (not including the hypotheses)?
Citations for the literature review
1. Did you cite a minimum of 5 references (all peer-reviewed resources)? Note that you can give a lot of detail for some references but only a sentence or two for others. How much detail you go into depends on how important the article is in helping your support your hypotheses.
1.a If NO, do your citations between the study one and study two literature reviews add up to ten or more references?
2. Are your citations in APA format (That is, ONLY the last name of the author(s) and date of publication)?
a. Note that you do NOT include first names, initials, or the title of the article the authors wrote when citing. That information belongs in the references pages only.
. Also note that you only use an ampersand – the & symbol – when it occurs within parentheses. In other instances, use the word “and”
3. If you quoted, did you provide a page number for the direct quote?
4. If you paraphrased in any way, did you cite the source of that information?
5. Did you cite everything that sounded like it was factual information?
6. Did you make sure the period follows the citation rather than coming before it?
7. If there are two authors, did you cite both of them? If in parentheses, did you use the & symbol? If outside of parentheses, did you use the word “and”?
8. If there are three or more authors in the same citation, did you use the phrase et al. every time you cited them?
Methods Section Study One (This section is identical to Paper II and III – Methods Study One)
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No
Title for the methods section
1. Is the word “Methods” centered and in bold? (Note: No page
eak needed)
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Participants
1. Do you have the word “Participants” flush left and in bold, right below the word “Methods”?
2. Did you list out your demographic characteristics, including gender, age, and ethnicity / race?
3. Did you provide the descriptive statistics for (means and standard deviations) for age and italicize the letters M and SD?
4. Did you provide frequencies for gender and ethnicity
ace and italicize the N?
5. Did you refer readers to Table 1 for the full listing of demographic info?
Materials and Procedure
1. Is the phrase “Materials and Procedure” flush left and in bold?
2. Did you mention informed consent? (Most likely oral consent for study one)
3. Did you discuss any instructions the participant may have read?
4. Did you thoroughly describe any stimulus material that might have occu
ed before your actual independent variables (and photos, descriptions, profiles, questions, puzzles, etc.) that are a part of your study?
5. Did you thoroughly describe your two independent variables in enough depth and detail that another researcher could duplicate your materials?
6. Did you give your IVs names that matches up with the name you refer to in the results section?
7. Did you describe all of your most relevant dependent variables, noting the scales you used (e.g. “Yes / No”, “A scale ranging from 1 (not at all likely) to 9 (very likely))” for EACH of your DVs?
8. Did you fully describe what participants went through in the study, noting the order in which they received study materials (e.g. first informed consent, then IVs, DVs, and de
iefing)?
9. Did you fully describe your attention check (manipulation check) with enough detail that a reader unfamiliar with your study could recreate it, and did you include the scale for that attention check question?
10. Did you use the past tense when describing your methods (seeing how you already collected the data, and therefore do not discuss what participants will do)?
Results Section Study One (This section is identical to Paper II and III – Results Study One)
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Results
1. Do you have the word “Results” centered and in bold, immediately following the methods section?
2. Did you analyze at least three different dependent variables, including one chi square and at least one ANOVA?
3. Did you mention all of the IVs and the DV by name when talking about your analysis?
4. Did you include means and standard deviations within parentheses for each level of your independent variable?
5. If your ANOVA was significant, did you include post hoc tests?
6. Did you italicize the letters F, t, p, M, SD, and X2 (where appropriate)?
7. Did you round ALL numbers to two decimal places (with the exception of the p value, which can go as low as p < .001 or p = .001).
Discussion Section Study One (This is identical to Paper II and III –