This paper should be AT LEAST 700 words, anything shorter will reduce points. 

Written work must be typed using Microsoft Word with 1” margins, 12-point maximum font, double-spaced, an in Times New Roman font. Papers must have a cover page with the title of the paper, course title and name, date due, the student’s name, and my name in that order. It must have reference page(s) at the end of the paper using the APA writing format. This final paper should include AT LEAST 5 academic references. 

 

Research paper topic

 

The topic of this paper should be to write on any of the founding theorists of sociology mentioned in Chapter 1 of the text. It should be a short bio of their work as a sociologist, any theoretical work they are attributed with, and any other information that you feel is relevant to the theorist.

 

·       Auguste Comte

·       Harriet Martineau

·       Karl Marx

·       Herbert Spencer

·       George Simmel

·       Emile Durkheim

·       Max Weber

·       W.E.B. Du Bois

·       Jane Addams

·       Charles Herbert Cooley

·       George Herbert Mead

·       Robert Park

 

APA WRITING HELP 

APA style writing: Microsoft Word with 1” margins, 12-point maximum font, Times New Roman font, double-spaced, and must have a cover page. (YOU DO NOT NEED AN ABSTRACT)

·      Cover page

o   Title of paper

o   Course name

o   Due date

o   Student name

o   Lecturer name 

                        Example 

 

·      Reference list

o   Must have AT LEAST 4 references to get full credit for this. 

o   Your reference list MUST be in APA style and in Alphabetical Order! 

o   Google and Wikipedia are not references.

o   Additional reference database ideas

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§  Sociology textbooks or books by theorists and researchers 

 if you have a Gmail account will give you free access. 

References on Word Docs can work too.

·      Go to your “references” tab on the top of the page. (Make sure the “style” is in APA sixth Edition)

·      Click on “Insert citation” to create new citation, and “add new source”. 

·      Select whether your source is a book, website, journal article etc. and fill in the appropriate information.  Then select “ok” and it should produce an in-text citation for you. 

·      When all of your references are complete, go to “references” and “bibliography” and select the bibliography you wish to enter on a blank page.

 

·      In-text citation 

o   Book (Author 1, Author 2, et al. Year/2019, Pg #).

o   Website (Author / Website name if no Author given, Year/2019)

o   In- text citation MUST be included when you are taking ideas from somewhere else and presenting them in your paper. If you do not cite other people’s ideas, I then must expect those ideas to be your own and that is called intellectual plagiarism.