Psychology- Human Sexuality
Research Pape
Your task is to write a literature review on the topic of your choice.
Specifications: 5-6 pages (anything over is fine, but pretty please no more than 10). This page limit only includes the text of your paper, not the title page or references, an abstract isn’t necessary.
You will need to find 5 strong peer-reviewed scientific sources. Paper is 12 or 11 pt font with 1” margins. Attempt APA style.
The Paper:
A review question for a smaller paper like this should focus on a na
ow question of interest within a field.
The paper focuses:
you can decide if you want to focus on
· HIV preventions or treatments
· You can look at preventions of HIV before the person infected or once they have it
· You can look in HIV how the outcomes different from men and women
· Behaviorally what problems does people have with the treatment methods
· From the prevention side you can look anything from sex aid about HIV or people sexual behaviors and the use of contraception
Basic Format:
Title page (no abstract needed)
Introduction – what is the question you are asking and what do you already know about it…or think you know about it?
The Body – take a paragraph or two to discuss each of your sources, and how they help to answer your research question separately
Nearing the conclusion – How does the research you found tie together to complement each other to answer your question. Additionally, do the articles contradict each other at all?
Conclusion – what did you find, what questions do you still have that are left unanswered. And what’s the next step you would take if you could ask another question on the topic
Places to look for research:
http:
scholar.google.com