TOPIC - WHY DO MEN HAVE SEXUAL ADDICTION? Specifications:  5-6 pages (anything over is fine, but pretty please no more than 10). This page limit only includes the text of your paper, not the title page or references; an abstract isn’t necessary for a homework assignment.  You will need to find 5 strong peer-reviewed scientific sources.  Paper is 12 or 11 pt font with 1” margins.  Attempt APA style; you won’t be graded on your APA style….but attempt it. You will need to know it for nearly any science writing.  Here is a good website to help you learn it if you’ve never used it.  The Paper:             For this paper, I want you to review YOUR topic in the Psychology of Human Sexuality that interests you.  You can literally pick anything you want to review as long as it’s related back to the science of studying Human Sexuality in some way. A review question for a smaller paper like this should focus on a narrow question of interest within a field.  Basic Format:             You can feel free to stray from this basic format, but this is to help people who may be lost in structuring a research review paper.  Title page (NO ABSTRACT NEEDED) Introduction – what is the question you are asking, and what do you already know about it…or think you know about it? The Body – take a paragraph or two to discuss each of your sources and how they help to answer your research question separately. Nearing the conclusion – How does the research you found tie together to complement each other to answer your question.  Additionally, do the articles contradict each other at all? Conclusion – what did you find? What questions do you still have that are left unanswered?  And what’s the next step you would take if you could ask another question on the topic References – in APA style (like the rest of your paper. Use that online writing guide I link to above, it's straightforward to use and contains a sample paper) Acceptable types of sources:  Gold standard: peer-reviewed research papers found through the library databases.  These can be original research, or peer-reviewed Review, or meta-review papers on a topic.  Magazines like Psychology Today do not count as peer-reviewed research.  Silver: Books published by notable scientists in their field (means you have to check their credentials, what training they have, if other peers doing similar work get similar results, and if they’ve published results in peer-reviewed journals before) Bronze: Interviewing a scientist who does this work yourself, whether in a live or written interview format Don’t even think about it: Blogs, random webpages run by one person, Wikipedia entries, pop culture scientists like Dr. Phil/Dr. Oz that doesn’t actually do research.  Feelings or opinions not backed up by empirical evidence. Journalistic sources are not scientific sources. If the newspaper article cites science, then it is your job to search the databases for work by that scientist so you can read it yourself—examples of journalistic sources: NY times, psychology today, Washington Post, The Guardian, etc.