Topic Discussion: Meditation
Topic Discussion: Meditation
The group project research paper must have a minimum of 1000 words – main body (does not include the title page, abstract, or reference pages) (minimum 3 pages – maximum 5 pages. Times New Roman, Size 12, and minimum 4 references about that topic (3 of them most be research articles). The criteria exposed in your paperwork must be exclusively based on peer reviewed article, and I will be very fussy in confirming the reliability of your statements. A formal paper using APA format according to Publication Manual American Psychological Association (APA) (6th ed.).2009 ISBN: 978-1-4338-0561-5 will be submitted via Assignment Submission. This paperwork must be submitted on week # 11 (July 19), so that you have plenty of time to start collecting literature.
Question Guide:
The paper should include the following:
- What is the meaning of the wordMeditation?
- Background / history
- Who can practice it? Training?
- How does meditation work? / Treatment
- Types of meditations
- Benefits
- Contraindications
- Research studies that support health benefits (a least 3)
- Integration into nursing practice
Grading Criteria:
- What is the meaning of theword meditation? – 8 points
- Background / history – 8 points
- Who can practice it? Training – 8 points
- How does meditation work? / Treatment – 8 points
- Types of meditations – 8 points
- Benefits – 12 points
- Contraindications – 6 points
- Research studies that support health benefits (a least 3) – 12 points
- Integration into nursing practice – 10 points
- References: At least 4 reference sources – 3 of them most be research articles – 12 points
- APA style – 8 points
MAXIMUN POINTS – 100
It accounts for 20% of your final grade
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.
