Cognitive Psychology: By Stephen R. Schmidt, MTSU

Term Paper

Details concerning the paper can be found at the links below.

  1. Description of the paper

  2. Paper Topic Approval

  3. Statement on Plagiarism (Print, sign, and turn this in.)

  4. Term Paper Evaluation (This is the form I will use to grade your paper.)

  5. Submitting your Paper: Upload your paper and support materials (i.e., pdf's of your sources) to D2L (https://elearn.mtsu.edu/)

Note: Your term papers will automatically by scanned by plagiarism detection software.  This software calculates an originality score that reflects overlap between your paper and a large database of material. The database includes on-line sources, published academic articles, and in previously scanned student papers.  Papers with high overlap will be suspect. Your paper becomes part of the database once it is scanned.

Some helpful information

  1. Guides to APA format

    1. APA Style.org

    2. Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format

    3. APA Style Essentials

    4. APA Style Guide

    5. A Guide for Writing Research Papers

    6. Writing Research Reports

  2. Sources: MTSU Psychology Research Guide

  3. Sample Papers: Review Paper  Research Report

Note, the sample papers were prepared by my students.  I selected these papers to provide you with some very good examples of the format, content, depth, and scope of the term paper.  However, these papers are not perfect.  There are several problems with the APA style, and there may be grammatical and spelling errors.  Try to avoid these problems in your term paper.

Also note the I have converted the papers to be viewed in a web browser.  As a result, the exact layout, and page breaks are not correct, and the layout will not be correct if you print the paper.

VIII. Sample Topics:

These are topics I have collected over the years from what I think were successful term papers.  You are not limited to these topics, I provide them to give you an idea of the kind of course related content that you can cover in a successful term paper.

Last Modified 8/17/2011

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