What Roles Do the Movies Play in Defying Gender Stereotypes?

Guide Psychology Research Paper

Topic: What Roles Do the Movies Play in Defying Gender Stereotypes?

• should be approximately 4 pages in length.
  • (Not including cover page & references page).

You must use APA Style. To follow APA guidelines, you can check out the following resources:

• https://apastyle.apa.org/
• https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html
• The library most likely has the APA manuals!

Use credible sources by accessing information from:

• You must use at least 4 peer-reviewed publications. You can find these from:
  • Google Scholar
  • https://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo/
• In addition to the 4 peer reviewed articles, you can use websites and online articles that are not peer-reviewed.

Create your Introduction based on your topic idea!

• What is the paper going to be about?
  • First start with defining gender stereotypes then discuss what gender stereotypes exist in film.
  • Please use 4 peer reviewed articles
• Why is this an important topic to this area of work?
• As you are doing research on the topic, you may have decided to fine-tune the topic idea based on what you are finding and what you are interested in. That is okay!
• Approximately a 1/2 page.

As you are reading peer-reviewed publications, take notes!  Start creating topic ideas that fall within the main topic. These notes will help you write your paper.

• Use positives & negatives to your idea
• Challenges & benefits
• Be unbiased in your writing

The Main Body of your paper:

• Should be the bulk of your 4 pages of writing.
• Should be a critical analysis of your topic.
• What does the research say about this topic area?
• Use headings and sub-headings as you discuss sub-topics.
• Be thorough.

Conclusion

Please provide an overall summary of your findings for this paper.

• What conclusions would you make about this overall topic area?
  • This should be bulk of conclusion
• Did any of your findings surprise you in any way?
  • In what ways?
• Has changed your mind about the topic or has influenced you to pursue further.
• Should be less than 1 page.