NSG 6420 Week 6 Assignment 3 UTI New

Instructions for APA-Style Research Report Introduction

This assignment entails writing the introduction section of your research report. What is a research report? It’s a detailed description of a study. Houston et al. (2005) is an example of a research report.

The introduction section of a research report is a literature review and ends with a statement about the aim of the current study. What is a literature review? It’s a discussion of what researchers currently know about a topic. Terms (like competitiveness) are often defined and findings from prior studies are reported. The introduction section of Houston et al. (2005) is a literature review. NSG 6420 Week 6 Assignment 3 UTI New

Here is what to do:

– Type a 2-page introduction, double spaced. More than 2 pages is fine; less than 1.5 pages is not fine. Header material, e.g., name, date, title, etc., do not count towards the length requirement.

– Use Times New Roman 12-point font and 1-inch margins.

– Cite 4 of the 5 articles you submitted. One of the five must be Houston et al. (2005). Citations must be in APA format.

– Ensure your final paragraph discusses the purpose of the study (i.e., to determine if findings on gender differences in self-reported competitiveness will be replicated).

– End the introduction with your prediction for the study’s outcome. Your prediction should follow logically from your literature review.

– Proofread the assignment for errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc. NSG 6420 Week 6 Assignment 3 UTI New

– Use Google Docs or Word, then save and submit the file as a PDF.

Additional details:

– You may use additional peer-reviewed sources but you’re not required to do so.

– You may transition from gender differences to competition, or from competition to gender differences, or you can limit your entire introduction to just discussing gender differences in competitiveness.

– You may give examples of competitions, e.g., physical, nonphysical, recreational, nonrecreational, human, nonhuman, etc.

– You may wish to discuss the ways that competitiveness has been assessed in other studies, e.g., self-report, experimentation, observation, etc. and how that may be relevant. NSG 6420 Week 6 Assignment 3 UTI New

– Stick with facts, do not include your opinion, and do not refer to yourself, e.g., by using “I” or “my” and so forth.

– Don’t use contractions like ‘don’t’.

– Don’t submit a reference section.

– When you’re finished, review it to make sure one sentence flows clearly and logically to the next; likewise with each paragraph.

Grading

This assignment is worth 10 points, graded on 5-point increments, i.e., 0, 5, or 10 points.

APA Format for Citations

You may put authors’ names in parentheses or not, but don’t change styles. See options below.

One author:

Smith (2016) noted blah blah blah.

or

One study noted blah blah blah (Smith, 2016).

Two authors:

Smith and Jones (2017) noted blah blah blah.

or

One study noted blah blah blah (Smith & Jones, 2017).

Three to five author cases use the following format. In this example there are three authors:

First citation: Smith, Jones, and Barnes (2018) noted blah blah blah. NSG 6420 Week 6 Assignment 3 UTI New

or

First citation: One study noted blah blah blah (Smith, Jones, & Barnes, 2018).

Subsequent citations for three to five authors:

Smith et al. (2018) noted blah blah blah.

or

One study noted blah blah blah (Smith et al., 2018).

Six or more authors uses the same format for the first and all subsequent citations:

Miller et al. (2019) noted blah blah blah.

or

One study noted blah blah blah (Miller et al., 2019).

Here is may favorite resource for APA format:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html