Thesis Paper

Your paper must be a minimum of four full pages (not including the cover page or reference page).

Use APA format including the approved margin sizes, font size, and font styles. Here’s a tip – if you want to write less then use the APA approved font style Arial (it’s bigger and takes up more space than Times New Roman even at the same font size setting).

Inserting long quotes, copied material from other sources, or tables, graphs, etc. from other sources does not count towards your four pages of content.

Thesis Paper Instructions

Your paper may be longer than four pages.Paper SampleCover PageIntroductory Paragraph

– Introduce the Topic Advance Organizer Paragraph – Share what will be Covered in your PaperMultiple Supporting Paragraphs Discussing your Topic in DepthReferencing Credible Sources The importance of your topic and a thesis (statement or question) about your topic Various perspectives from the literature about this topic that either support your thesis or answer your question Synthesize what you learned from your research about this topic (before this research on the thesis I thought _____________ and now I understand _____________________.

Identify future questions or directions for research (what research scientists need to conduct to answer the unknown about this topic)Concluding Paragraph – Summarize the Key Points in your PaperReference PageOutlineAny Appendices or Attachments