D10-g: Sample student paper: Literature review (excerpt)

D10-gSample student paper: Literature review (excerpt)

A psychology literature review assignment usually asks you both to survey published research on a topic in the field and to argue your own position with evidence that you assemble from your survey. The student paper excerpted beginning on the next page was written for a secondyear developmental psychology course. The student, Valerie Charat, used the style guidelines of the American Psychological Association (APA) to format her paper and to cite and list her sources.

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Marginal annotations indicate APA-style formatting and effective writing.

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