The Research Paper is a brief research paper combining your personal discoveries about a work or works that you can pull from appropriate research sources. The Research Paper must be overwhelmingly yours.

Requirements:

The main body of your paper should no less than four “full” pages of written text double spaced text. Paper format: the first page is the cover sheet, the next four pages are the body of the paper (i.e. four full pages of text), and the last page is the reference list. A complete paper will consist of no less than six pages.

TOPIC: Discuss or reflect upon the American Correctional Association (ACA) from its beginning, including the profound impact the association has had on prisoner rights and its influence on the field of corrections.

Guidelines:

1. Use APA format for this typed paper. If you are unfamiliar with APA format, you may check out this site Purdue Owl Online Writing Lab which has excellent tools for your paper.
2. Plagiarism is unacceptable. See the Scholastic Honesty Statement on the course menu for more details and cite all or any references.
3. Maintain college-level English language proficiency.
4. A title page and references are required. Cite all references.
5. Use MS Word file formatting and submit as an .rtf or docx. IMPORTANT!!