In scientific writing in psychology, books, articles from popular magazines, newspaper articles, and internet sites are not used as sources. You may use these sources for additional information, but they do not substitute for the required 3 research articles. This paper should state what researchers have been studying within your topic, how they have been studying it, and what conclusions they have reached. Whenever you present an author's ideas in your own words, list the author's name in parentheses. At this level, you should write almost everything in your own words.
Direct quotations are uncommon in scientific writing.
If it is important to quote the original author, you are still responsible for rephrasing the quotation to clarify its meaning in the context of your paper. Plagiarism will result in failing the course. Research project alternative. As an alternative to the term paper described above, you might conduct a very small-scale research project in which you observe one or more types of behavior in children or adolescents. The project must be related to a published research article.