The format of the paper should be as following:
Title Page:
Describe your work briefly in two to three lines and also include your name, date and
course number. (This page is not part of your 1500 words content)
Introduction (10 points):
The part should be comprehensible to the general audience. You should
define/describe the topic that you will address. By defining and establishing the
objective of your paper in the introductory section, you clarify the goal and set
the direction for the rest of the paper. Points will be cut for not clearly defining the
main idea, not providing references to back up the significance of the topic presented,
grammatical or language errors, and not following referencing style.
Literature review (25 Points):
Title Page:
Describe your work briefly in two to three lines and also include your name, date and
course number. (This page is not part of your 1500 words content)
Introduction (10 points):
The part should be comprehensible to the general audience. You should
define/describe the topic that you will address. By defining and establishing the
objective of your paper in the introductory section, you clarify the goal and set
the direction for the rest of the paper. Points will be cut for not clearly defining the
main idea, not providing references to back up the significance of the topic presented,
grammatical or language errors, and not following referencing style.
Literature review (25 Points):
At least try to find seven (7) peer-reviewed research articles from literature search that
explored your topic with sufficient scientific rigor. I am not looking for review papers or
media reports or case studies. They should be hardcore research papers with statistics
and tables that they produced from primary (their own) data collection. In your
description, you should provide an enlarged but focused information on significant
literature organized clearly around the topic you posed in the introduction. The
information should be provided in enough detail to orient the reader who may not be a
specialist in the subject. Make the description clear, crisp, and logically organized. Make
seven paragraphs for seven individual studies. The main points in each of the seven
paragraph should be what author’s research objective was, what methods they
used to meet that objective, what were their main findings along with stats and
their general conclusion. Points will be cut for not covering seven required studies,
missing any of the essential information as described above in bold text in this section,
grammatical or language errors, and not following referencing style.
Discussion (10 Points):
This section should provide the analysis of the work you described in literature review.
You should provide your general take on the quality of your selected papers. Provide
information on the type of study designs used (cohort is strongest design, case
control and cross sectional are weakest), the size of sample collected (larger the
number of participants the stronger the study), the rigors of method that were
used (laboratory methods, clinical methods, hospital data, health data etc. are
strong methods, use of questionnaire/survey is weak method), and mention what
studies were the most impressive (at least one study) and provide your
explanation. Finally end this section with what you found from this literature review.
Points will be cut for not covering general analysis of the quality of studies, missing any
of the essential information as described above in bold text in this section, grammatical
or language errors, and not following referencing style.
Conclusions (5 points):
The conclusions section is placed at the end of the document, right before the
Bibliography. In this section, restate the objective of this review (first sentence) and
then go with what you found from the literature review (second sentence). Finally,
discuss some solutions or alternatives (third sentence). To find solutions or
alternatives, look into the literature to search alternatives or solutions. If you cannot find
it, state your own. Points will be cut for missing any of the essential information as
described above in bold text in this section, and for grammatical or language errors.
References/Bibliography:
The conclusions are followed by a list of references (or bibliography) items. Must be in
APA style. MUST HAVE at least 7 PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES Plus
additional five (5) references to complete your introduction section. The total references
in the research papers should be at least 12 (The references page is not part of 1500-
words content)
explored your topic with sufficient scientific rigor. I am not looking for review papers or
media reports or case studies. They should be hardcore research papers with statistics
and tables that they produced from primary (their own) data collection. In your
description, you should provide an enlarged but focused information on significant
literature organized clearly around the topic you posed in the introduction. The
information should be provided in enough detail to orient the reader who may not be a
specialist in the subject. Make the description clear, crisp, and logically organized. Make
seven paragraphs for seven individual studies. The main points in each of the seven
paragraph should be what author’s research objective was, what methods they
used to meet that objective, what were their main findings along with stats and
their general conclusion. Points will be cut for not covering seven required studies,
missing any of the essential information as described above in bold text in this section,
grammatical or language errors, and not following referencing style.
Discussion (10 Points):
This section should provide the analysis of the work you described in literature review.
You should provide your general take on the quality of your selected papers. Provide
information on the type of study designs used (cohort is strongest design, case
control and cross sectional are weakest), the size of sample collected (larger the
number of participants the stronger the study), the rigors of method that were
used (laboratory methods, clinical methods, hospital data, health data etc. are
strong methods, use of questionnaire/survey is weak method), and mention what
studies were the most impressive (at least one study) and provide your
explanation. Finally end this section with what you found from this literature review.
Points will be cut for not covering general analysis of the quality of studies, missing any
of the essential information as described above in bold text in this section, grammatical
or language errors, and not following referencing style.
Conclusions (5 points):
The conclusions section is placed at the end of the document, right before the
Bibliography. In this section, restate the objective of this review (first sentence) and
then go with what you found from the literature review (second sentence). Finally,
discuss some solutions or alternatives (third sentence). To find solutions or
alternatives, look into the literature to search alternatives or solutions. If you cannot find
it, state your own. Points will be cut for missing any of the essential information as
described above in bold text in this section, and for grammatical or language errors.
References/Bibliography:
The conclusions are followed by a list of references (or bibliography) items. Must be in
APA style. MUST HAVE at least 7 PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES Plus
additional five (5) references to complete your introduction section. The total references
in the research papers should be at least 12 (The references page is not part of 1500-
words content)