Instructions

Please submit your final paper / project report based on my comments provided to your topic proposal. The report should have no less than 15 pages, double-spaced and not counting the title page, table of contents, bibliography, or any figures. For a research paper you should use a bibliography of no fewer than five sources that appear as references in the body. Your report should use headings and sub-headings to reflect its structure. Please proofread your report carefully to ensure that it contains no spelling or grammatical errors. Use the APA format where appropriate.

Please also note that your submission may be checked by an automated system to ensure that it is not a duplicate submission in other courses and that it follows the academic integrity policies. If your work is related to another course work, the content should be substantially (at least 2/3) different. You should also pay close attention to crediting the words or ideas of others. For any citation, try as much as you can to rephrase the original words. When you have to use the original words from other publications, remember to include in quotation marks. When you use the ideas from a publication, you should indicate clearly by citations, so that your own contribution can be clearly separated from other publications.

Rule of thumb: never copy and paste without proper citations!

A general structure of the final paper should include the following sections. Note the actual structure may vary depending on the topic area and the focus of your reviewed paper.

1. Title of thepaper
2. Abstract and keywords

3. General introduction of the problemarea
4. A concise problemstatement
5. Solutions to theproblem
6. Your critical review on theapproaches
7. Summary andconclusion
8. List ofreferences

Reference information on the APA style

APA:

https://apastyle.apa.org/

Purdue University: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_style_introduction.html