You will seek out and find at least five sources from academic journal articles (2 Peer-reviewed), 1 trade publications, and 1 book relevant to this area of interest. o You will be assessed on the quality of your sources o You must search beyond Google. Papers that are researched using Google and or Google scholar as a primary method will receive an automatic F. o A research paper (minimum1,500 words) where you bring no less than three sources together in service of an argument of your creation. This paper will also be in full APA style. Your paper should contain no more than 15% quoted, paraphrased, and summarized material. Each body paragraph should use two pieces of support for your argument. Each of these pieces of support should come from a different source. o Your ability to connect different sources and explain said connection, as it pertains to your argument, is key to success in this paper. Submission order for the final research paper is: o Cover page o Abstract (150 words, this does not count toward your paper’s word count) o Research paper ( introduction, body, conclusion) o References You will be assessed on: o Critical thinking o Argument construction and support o Analysis o Mechanics Preferred language style Simple (Easy vocabulary, simple grammar constructions)



