Formatting a Research Paper

Before you start your paper, it’s important to know what style guide to use. Style guides regulate
your paper’s typography, grammar, citation, and bibliography. Different fields use different style
guides in their research studies.

The APA style guide, named for the American Psychological Association, is used in behavioral
and social science research, including educational and psychological studies. Here are some
basic tips for formatting an APA research paper.

 Paper should be on 8 ½ x 11-inch white paper, with 1-inch margins on the top, bottom, and
sides.
 Font is 12 point Times New Roman.
 Lines are double-spaced.
 Cover pages are required in APA papers and are center-aligned.
 Each page needs a left-aligned running header with the title of your study.
 Right-align page numbers at the top of each page, including the cover page.
 Indent the first word in each paragraph, except in the abstract.
 The title itself is not bolded, but individual section headings (e.g. Background, Methodology) are.
 In-text citations of other studies, reports, and articles include the author’s or organization’s
name, as well as the year of publication.

Other Parts of a Research Paper

If you’d like to go into more depth than the sections above, consider including
additional parts of a research paper.

 Limitations of Study: Found after the Introduction section, the Limitations of

Study section lists any factors by which you limited your research. These can
include age, location, sex, and education level. This section can also list the ways
that your study was impacted by shortcomings such as limited resources or small
sample sizes.
 Literature Review: The Literature Review section takes scholarly articles or books
out of the Background section for a more focused investigation. You can usually
find this section between Background and Methodology.
 Discussion: A more concentrated section for evaluating results is the Discussion
section. This section is a helpful place to consider the process as a whole.
 Acknowledgments: This is a place to thank anyone who helped you complete
your research. It can include colleagues, focus group participants, fellow
researchers, mentors, or family members.
A research paper is a type of academic writing that entitles a more theoretical and decisive thinking. It is
considered as part of every student's life, thus, making it one essential tool to gauge a student's critical and
analytical capabilities.
Basically, doing research papers are crucial since it requires time and effort so as to come up with proficient
answers to queries. It really takes a lot of sweat before coming up with probable solutions to problems.
With that regard, here are five things that students should bear in mind in writing research works.
1. Never choose a topic that is out of personal interest. In doing research papers, it is always easier if the
topic being discussed interests the writer itself. A number of ideas come up if the topic levels the writer's
interests, thus allowing exemplary research paperwork.
2. Never use needless words. Students often think that the fluffier their sentences are, the more it becomes
enticing. The fact is, most of the time, the thought is being taken for granted because of these needless words.
Remember, always keep your thoughts simple and clear.
3. Keep thoughts intact. This means, focus on the topic and the topic itself only. Nonetheless, your research
paper will be a crap.
4. Don't let failure distract you. In every research work, failure attacks. With that, never let it hinder in
producing an optimum research work.
5. Always consult the opinion of other people. Admit it, it is always good to hear feedbacks. Feedbacks are
considered the engine in knowing the effectivity of your work. It really helps in creating a more efficient
research outcome.
Basically, these tips will help students create their papers without any hassle. It also guarantees students of
having excellent research paper outcome that would entice its readers. Rest assured that it will change every
student's view about doing research paper.
It does not matter what stage of academic training you are in right now. Surely
you will have to make one or several research papers. It may well be an oral
presentation, or a written statement, through essays or through the writing of
monographs.
In any case, everything begins by choosing a topic of interest.

Because sometimes it does not matter how interesting your story is or how well
your research is. If the topic is not correct, you will not be able to generate a
connection with the evaluating public.
To make this easier for you we have taken the task of making this post. In it, you
will know some of the most relevant social interest issues when preparing
content for academic presentation. Regardless of whether the evaluation is oral
or written.

All the subjects have been chosen without a real distinction between the degree
of formation in which you find yourself; so it is suitable for boys of primary,
secondary, or university degree training.

At the moment if you have no idea what is the best and easy topic for your
research, this post will surely serve as guidance and help.

11 Most Easy & Interesting Research Paper Topics For High School Students:

We have chosen the following topics so that you can develop your research easily; Drug addiction, the technological
age, young entrepreneurs, smoking, sexually transmitted diseases, eating disorders, the environment, pregnancy in
adolescence, causes of death in young people, bullying and finally the methods of promotion for young people to
read.
You will find each of these topics explained below. Why have we chosen these?  Because most of the society is
already aware of these current issues and it will not be difficult to connect with them during your
presentation. Besides finding information about these topic is easy, because at least once a week the media makes
reference to it.
1. Drug Addiction

Trite or not, the issue of drug addiction is one of the most common when we look for one of the most interesting to
prepare research material. Something that becomes much more important when it comes to adolescents and young
people. The fundamental reason is that it is in this age where the origin of the drug and its habit are found in relation
to drugs. It is estimated that more than 50% of new consumers are minors, which already leads us to assume the
relevance of the exposure and research of this topic at an early age.
Even people responsible for academic assignments should use drug addiction research as a method of self-evaluation
in the speakers .

And while it is about that half of new consumers are under 18 years of age; the important thing of the case is to
know the origins and then take care of mitigating the consequences. In the case of origins, we have to see how the
social relationship of these individuals influences their environment: family, friends and acquaintances.
If we look closely at the cases, we will note that experimentation is the main reason behind the beginning of
adolescent drinking habit. However, there are other origins such as stress, the pressure of other colleagues and
friends; curiosity and even the rebelliousness of this time of life.
But, the part of the origins is only one of the essentials to make research. It can also be done on the consequences,
which not only have to do with health, but with academic performance and even with the relationship with your
closest friends and family. It is one of the most relevant issues in modern society.
But it is only the first of our list of 11 Topics.

2.Communication in the era of technology

Some call it Communication 2.0 and even Communication 3.0 . The sense is exactly the same: the way we
communicate has changed tremendously since the arrival of technology; especially from internet networks. And
although the subject seems already known by all, what few we have with certainty is a clear knowledge of its effects.
Its true and real effects, which for many of us are still not palpable.

According to surveys, which can be a general average in the countries of the Western Hemisphere, we spend more
than 20 hours a week only on social networks (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, …), in an hourly amount
that will continue to grow with each passing year. On average, we also have a direct link with more than 300 people
through social channels. This without taking into account the instant messaging networks of our smart phones
(Telegram, WhatsApp, Skype, Facebook Messenger).
That is, we are connected in a constant and irreversible way with technology. What has definitely marked the way we
communicate with others. But, the problem is that of all the people we have added as friends, we only see physically
less than 12%, and in a short time.

We see some of them because we coincide coincidentally, or because work or study obliges us to do so. But it is not a
planned or consensual fact, which is a factor to be taken into account about how we have changed the way we
communicate.

We must bear in mind that the human being is, above all, a being that needs to maintain contact. And to think that
only 11% of that contact is being physical, and the rest of the time is being devoted to a digital contact – at a distance
– is already a phenomenon that requires evaluation.
In addition, it is a subject extensive enough to pose in research or monograph.

The best thing of all is that it can be distinguished for any stage of the formation, and even for any career of
formation of degree, since it is a phenomenon that attacks us by all possible ways; technology is already in all the
important areas of our life.

3.Entrepreneurship and Young Entrepreneurs

We are not taught entrepreneurship in school and universities and it is a task that requires a lot of intrinsic
motivation, and above all, many pushes .

However, if we look around, especially in the high corporate spheres, we will notice that most of the world leaders
and owners – founders of companies started as entrepreneurs from very early ages.

Richard Branson, Steve Jobs or Bill Gates would be some of the most notorious cases.

Therefore, any issue of entrepreneurship related to the generation of productive ideas from the earliest ages is a topic
that must be emphasized more and more every day. The importance of this not only has to do with the way in which
working life is changing, with less and less demand for workers and greater demand for capable leaders; but also in a
behavior of favoritism of the social entrepreneur before the preference of the punctual worker.

Entrepreneurship, therefore, has become one of the most demanded tasks by the current work ecosystem. However, it
is a work that is not yet taught and about which we do not all have a theoretical foundation.

The exposition of this topic could be distinguished by the biographical review of a character who has stood out
exactly for entrepreneurship since young.

4.Smoking and alcoholism

More than as addictions separated and isolated from the rest; work on them as a social event.
The data in this respect is not encouraging: more than half of the world population habitually consumes one of both
-or alcohol, or tobacco-. In addition, it is statistically presumed that the majority of tobacco and alcohol addicts begin
before reaching adulthood, so the topic is ideal for an oral or written presentation in educational areas of young
people and adolescents in general.

We highlight here the social event, because in addition to the risks inherent in the health of both addictions (lung
cancer, trachea or anxiety in the case of smoking; and liver cancer or cirrhosis in the case of alcoholism), many are the
social risks of Both addictions, such as the risk of road accidents, change of behavior or problems with the family in
the case of alcohol addiction; and the risk of disorders, phobias and even the jump to dangerous drugs in the case of
tobacco.

We are, therefore, in the face of two issues that are not only important because of the age when their first causes
begin to manifest themselves, but because of how difficult they have been-and are-to cope and mitigate in terms of
what they are intended to do.

By relevance, they are suggested as thematics for oral presentation, and even for final degree projects.
5.Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Needless to say, it is one of the inevitable topics on the list of interesting topics to expose. Especially when the public
is between 13 and 25 years old. Young people are, by far, the population nucleus with the highest risk of contracting
sexually transmitted diseases, also called venereal diseases .

This has many explanations, but some of those that have greater incidence are: promiscuity, since the majority of
young people experience having more than one sexual partner; the experimentation and even the concealment of
their sexual life facing parents and doctors. Finally, there is a biological foundation, since young people -especially
women- have an index of 50% more risk of contracting diseases of this type.

In North America alone there are more than 20 million new cases of STDs each year. A figure that increases when we
consider the entire Western Hemisphere.

The topics of research related to sexually transmitted diseases can be discussed with the causes, with the
consequences, with the prevention, and also with the life with venereal diseases, because there is possibly not a
definitive cure.

6.Eating disorders

Disorders in eating habits have been treated in a wrong way for a long time. In the worst case, they have not even
been taken into account.

However, today one in three teenagers has a disorder associated with eating. Commonly we associate these disorders
with two well-known ones: anorexia and bulimia.

Both are not strictly food problems, but have to do directly with psychological problems, self-assessment, self-
esteem and depression; and it is precisely this behavioral mixture that affects teenage girls to become obsessed with
food.
In the case of bulimia, people who suffer from it tend to eat compulsively and in exaggerated quantities; but a few
hours later they become obsessed with the idea that they have eaten too much, and they are busily seeking to
eliminate food through vomiting-which can be induced-and the use of powerful laxatives.

In the case of anorexia, it is a condition of self-perception where adolescents believe they are overweight. Anorexia,
from the clinical point of view, is summarized as a pathology in which patients have a weight 15% less than ideal
weight, at least.

Some people with anorexia may have a skeletal body, because they are afraid of gaining weight .
The treatment of eating disorders is not simple, but it exists and can have a high effectiveness. And although it is not
a disease destined exclusively for females, they are the most disadvantaged by such bad habits.

The treatment, properly speaking, has to do with clinical monitoring, apart from the acquisition of new eating habits
that are supported – or shared – by all their relatives and close friends. Finally, it is a job in which you have to rely on
the help of psychology professionals, since the mind is the root of the whole problem.

7.Environmental and ecology theme

Previously we mentioned the topic of ecology from the point of view of entrepreneurship. However, it is an extensive
and systematically important issue to be addressed on its own. And that is exactly what we propose .
The environmental issue is usually linked to that of political management, but it does not have to be exclusively like
that. To carry out an oral or written presentation, the subject can be carried around an informative, journalistic,
scientific concept; focusing in addition on the prevention from the citizen culture, totally removed from the
controversial language and of confrontation to which the same subject would invite you. The environmental and
ecology issue has a lot to talk about, beyond the known global warming , its reasons, causes and the things that can
be done to prevent its effects in the short and medium term.

Although, if you like, you can talk about the technological and governmental advances in this regard, and how these
could be enhanced according to the adoption of simple changes in habits. Issues such as deforestation of forests,
overpopulation, fishing and excessive or illegal hunting ; Endangered species and poor water management can be
some of the most interesting topics.

8.Pregnancy in adolescent age

Another issue that has an important social impact. As the relevant data from the case show, more than 75% of
adolescent pregnancies have not been intentional. That is, it has not been sought to become pregnant as the ultimate
goal. It was, lets say, accidental.

Early pregnancy is a social problem that today involves many young people, but also directly involves family
members, religious and recreational associations, as well as providers of specialized medical services.

The issues surrounding teen pregnancy should go, first of all, on the proportion of information to this sector of the
population. In the vast majority of cases, adolescents who have become pregnant have done so because they do not
have clear information, or because they have been victims of other problems we have already mentioned, such as
drugs or alcohol.

In addition to the above, the theme also serves to address proposals of a social or medical nature that can work to
prevent and eradicate the phenomenon, which in turn can lead to a more serious and ethically more delicate, such as
abortion.

9.Deaths in adolescents, and their causes

We have left it for the last places, but it is not less important than the previous ones. However, we could say that it is
one of the most controversial and spicy in the list. Hence your position in this post. Deaths in adolescents should be
an exception to the rule, since life is biologically and socially beginning to be forged. But, reality is far from this
previous statement.

The most common causes are suicide, homicide, traffic accidents, cancer and heart-related diseases.

Among all these most common causes, the fact that car accidents occupy more than one third of all causes –
common or not – of deaths in adolescents stands out. Something that already makes us see the relationship of this
fatal consequence with some of the problems that affect this part of society. In addition to this, another cause that
surprises is that of suicide, which has increased over the past 20 years to skip creeping encrypt . And is that according
to the CDC, suicide is the third most common cause of death in people under 24 years, only behind accidents (of any
kind) and homicides.
Interestingly, suicide occurs 61% with firearms, so the possession of weapons at home could be a major constraint for
young people to commit these unfortunate acts. After all, a family that owns many weapons in its home is, precisely, a
family that has chosen not to take the negotiation and the dialogue like a valid method to solve the problems.

Because of the complexity of the topic, it is a topic suitable for young people who are in the university. Not so much
for those who are in cycles of secondary education.

10.The bullying or the school harassment

Although it is a silent problem, since victims almost never declare it, bullying is one of the scourges that most affects
young people. This phenomenon of aggression can be physical or emotional, based on beatings, shouting, breaking
the belongings of the person being harassed, as well as mocking or denigrating the victim.

Bullying has been accepted as a matter of supremacy within a core of young people, predominating the school
environment.
However, we must be clear-and adolescents alike-that this bullying behavior cannot, in any way, be accepted. In fact,
legally and morally, no one has the right to be abused; And no person has the right to abuse others, regardless of any
social variable.

11.Promotion of reading in adolescents

The importance of reading is unquestionable. However, acquiring this habit is a process that requires many sacrifices.
It is scientifically proven that adolescents who begin to read will manage to maintain this habit throughout their lives.

Therefore, an exhibition that has the central concept of encouraging the habit of reading in the youngest is not only a
good topic, but a long-term investment. There are many books that are suitable for young people, since not only do
they allow them to acquire the habit, but they find in literature a healthy and enriching distraction.