Unit 3: Academic Paper
Research · Unit 3 · Paper 1

Academic Paper unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 25 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 3, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 33 min 30 points0/17 attempted
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Instrument description

2

Theoretical framework

3

Abstract

4

Procedure narrative

5

Implications

6

Interpreting a null result

7

Tables and figures

8

Reporting participants

9

Peer review of your own draft

10

Organizing a literature review

11

Avoiding overclaim in the abstract

12

Conclusion

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Future research

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Introduction: what it must do

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Limitations written well

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Literature review as an argument

3 pts

Free response

6 pts

A student is drafting the literature review of an AP Research academic paper on the effects of urban green space on adolescent mental health. The draft devotes one paragraph to each of eleven studies, in the order the student found them.

Explain the primary weakness of organizing a literature review by source.

Describe TWO alternative organizing principles and explain what each makes visible.

Explain how the literature review should connect to the paper’s method section.

Explain the difference between a limitation and a delimitation, and give one example of each for this study.