PSY204 Human Growth & Development

Welcome students! This guide provides helpful links and resources to help you with your research. Please use the tabs to navigate through the pages of this guide.

Review Your Assignment 

• What is the purpose?  - Review of Research Paper
• Are there any requirements? (type and/or number of resources, citation style)
• When is the paper due? (start early, to be sure you have resources in time)

Identify/Develop your topic

• Identifying your topic is the first step of the research process. 
• Use Reference sources such as, general encyclopedias and subject-specific reference sources , as well as your textbook to gather background information on your topic.
• List questions that you would like answered to help you focus your topic. 

Selecting Sources: ​

• Do they add new information to your existing body of evidence?
• Lead to other sources of information that might provide more details or better evidence 
• Provide a new perspective or claim 
• Remember to save/print the sources that you will be using for your paper for citation purposes. 
• Cite your sources!!

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