Deteriorating Mental Health of Police Officers Discussion
Deteriorating Mental Health of Police Officers Discussion
As you explore this week’s resources on positive social change, reflect on your proposed study and how its potential findings might contribute to positive social change. Consider how you might apply your learning as you develop the significance section of the prospectus you are writing.
As you complete your prospectus draft, be sure to refer to the guidelines in the Dissertation Prospectus document and the Dissertation Prospectus Rubric (available via the Prospectus Draft and Oral Presentation area). The prospectus draft you submit this week should contain all sections as described in the Dissertation Prospectus document. Be sure to include the Possible Analytical Strategies section as described in the Dissertation Prospectus document even though this section is listed as optional for your official prospectus. This section of the prospectus is required for the prospectus you submit for this course.
Your dissertation prospectus draft should be between 6–12 pages in length and include 12–15 references.
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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding†to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
