The effectiveness of flu shots versus vitamin supplements 3

Imagine that you are preparing a research proposal for an experimental study comparing the effectiveness of flu shots versus vitamin supplements for reducing individual instances of flu during one winter season. In your research proposal, you should:

develop a hypothesis,

write the method section of your proposal,

include a description of your subjects,

include how they will be recruited,

determine how they will be assigned to treatment and control groups or conditions,

identify your independent and dependent variables, and

describe the procedure you will apply to collect the data.

Be sure to include a discussion on how you would make your data collection blinded. Refer to pp. 529–531 in your textbook to see what a method section looks like. Utilize Table 11.1 on pp. 326–327 to make sure that your design is effective.

Your paper should be at least two pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages. A minimum of two sources must be used, one of which may include the textbook. Your paper must be in APA style format.

Textbook: Morling, B. (2017). Research methods in psychology: Evaluating a world of information (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Norton.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.