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General Paper Format (This section is identical to the Papers I and II 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.) using the professional (not student) formatting guidelines? 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=XZTCN6yOgSg

Title page (This section is identical to the Papers I and II Checklists)

Header

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 abbreviations that serve no purpose (as recommended by the APA)?

2. Does your title describe your general paper theme (while avoiding something bland like “Paper Three: Literature Review”)? Note that your header should be a shorter version of your title (For example, the first few words are fine)

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 correct?

7. Are your title, name, and institution elements centered and in 12 point Times New Roman font?

Literature Review Study One (This section is nearly identical to Paper I)

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 broadly, giving a brief overview of the study one to come?

2. Does your literature review start to narrow 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 very specific hypotheses? (You will lose a lot of points if your paper doesn’t provide the specific predictions!)

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 citations? (Note that you can give a lot of detail for some articles you cite 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.

b. 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 – Methods Study One)

Title for the methods section

1. Is the word “Methods” centered and in bold? (Note: No page break needed)

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/race and italicize the N?

5. Did you refer readers (callout) to Table 1 for a full list of demographic info?

6. Did you provide Table 1 (with demographic information) after the callout?

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 occurred 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 independent variable (IV) in enough depth and detail that another researcher could recreate your materials?

6. Did you give your IV a name 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 debriefing)?

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 – Results Study One)

Results

1. Do you have the word “Results” centered and in bold, immediately following the methods section?

2. Was the first dependent variable you looked at your manipulation check question, and did you make sure you analyzed the correct DV?

3. Did you analyze at least two different dependent variables for your other two analyses?

a. Note: Often your instructors prefer that you run two different ANOVAs. Ask them if they want a t-Test as one of the analysis.

4. Did you mention both the IV and the DV by name when talking about your analysis?

5. Did you include means and standard deviations within parentheses for each level of your independent variable?

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).

8. Did you provide all Tables after doing a “callout” for each?

Discussion Section Study One (This section is identical to Paper II – Discussion Study One)

1. Do you have the word “Discussion” centered and in bold, immediately following the results section?

2. Did you remind your reader of your hypothesis?

3. Did you mention whether you supported or did not support your hypothesis?

Literature Review Study Two (This section is completely new)

1. Do you have some title that denotes the start of study two (e.g. something as simple as “Study Two” is okay, though you can also have something that is descriptive of your new independent variable)?

2. Is this title centered and in bold?

3. Does your literature review start immediately after the study one discussion (there should be no page break unless it occurs naturally)

1. Does your new literature review start broadly with your second IV, giving a brief overview of what it entails?

2. Does your literature review start to narrow down toward your study two hypotheses?

4. Do you tie in your new IV with your original study one IV, showing how they might interact?

5. Does your paper end in your study two hypotheses? (More specifically, you should have a hypothesis for your main dependent variables).

1. Did you cite an additional 5 references (three of which MUST be 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? If yes, you are good here!

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?

References Page (This section is similar to Paper I, but with 10 references)

Title for the references page

1. Do references start on their own page?

2. Is the word “References” centered? Is it in bold?

References – Make sure these are in APA format!

1. Are references listed in alphabetical order (starting with the last name of the first author listed) for all 10 articles you referenced?

2. Are all citations from the both literature reviews referenced?

3. Is the first line of the reference flush left while subsequent lines are indented (Note: Use the ruler function for this. DO NOT simply tab)?

4. Did you use the “&” symbol when listing more than one author name?

5. Did you include the date of publication

6. For article references, is the article title (which is not italicized) with only the first word and proper names starting with a capital letter?

7. For article references, is the name of the journal present with all major words starting with a capital letter (and this journal title is italicized)?

8. For article references, is the volume number italicized

9. For article references, are the page numbers present (not italicized)

10. For article references, is the DOI present

Tables – Study One (Similar to Paper II)

1. Do you have the word “Table” flush left on each Table page (followed by the next sequential Table number), with a description of the table content below the Table title?

2. In Table 1 (Demographics), do you have SPSS tables for gender, ethnicity, and age? (Note: Age might be in a general “statistics” table, but you should have specific frequency tables for both gender and ethnicity)

3. In Table 2 (Chi Square), do you have the crosstabs table (with percentages) plus the chi square test (with Pearson)?

4. In Table 3 (ANOVA), do you have the descriptives table, the ANOVA table, and the post hoc table for your first dependent variable?

5. In Table 4 (ANOVA or t-Test), do you have the descriptives table, ANOVA (or t-Test) table, and post hoc table (for the ANOVA) for your second dependent variable?

6. Do the analyses in Tables 3 and 4 focus on DIFFERENT dependent variables? (Make sure you answer YES on this one!)

7. Did each table come immediately after the in-text callout?

Writing Quality

1. Did you proofread your paper, go to the writing center, go to the research methods help center, or use the Pearson writer to make sure your paper flows well?

2. Did you use the past tense (which is recommended, since your papers in this class will reflect work you already did rather than work you will do)?

3. Did you use a scientific / objective terms like “people”, “participants”. “users”, “readers”, etc. (as opposed to subjective words like “you”, “we”, “me”, “I”, or “us”, etc.)? Note that you can use the word “I” when referring to your own work.