Sample APA Papers: Literature Review

This section offers a sample literature review, written by an undergraduate psychology studentat Purdue University. Since it's a real paper written by a real student, we haven't corrected thestudent's errors, but have instead included comments that point them out. If you have acomment you'd like to add to the paper, send us an e-mail at link@owl.english.purdue.edu andwe'd be glad to add it.

We've marked up the paper with sample comments from various psychology teachers thatcomment on the paper's format, content, and use of APA style.

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