Individual Research Paper: Students are asked to write a research paper covering a major topic, trend, or significant contributor related to the field of public administration.

Topics may cover issues outside of the class material, but must center of public administration.

All topics must be submitted for approval in advance.

Papers must be between 3000 words in length, double spaced, and should be well sourced, using professional or academic journals.

Wikipedia and similar sources that rely on user generated information are not acceptable primary source material.

Students should follow American Psychological Association (APA) style (sixth edition) for all citations, available here:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ (Links to an external site.)

Individual papers should include the minimum following elements:

1. Cover page with relevant information
2. A clearly defined thesis supported by the paper
3. A logical structure and flow to the topics/ arguments
4. Research supported evidence with a variety of sources that are properly formatted
5. Logical and well developed arguments
6. Evidence based conclusions
7. Proper grammar, language and style for graduate research work