This course requires you to do a literature review research paper. Your research paper

This course requires you to do a literature review research paper. Your research paper will NOT involve any real person. Instead, you will be conducting a theoretical work in that you will find existing research on a topic you are interested in and do an analytical criticism with your own thought, as informed by the materials you learn in class. Again, you CANNOT use any research participant. Your data will be news columns, audio/visual sources, existing documentaries, etc, depending on the nature of your research. You should also cite relevant research articles. Example topics include: student performance and district budget, teenagers and digital media use, criticism of universal health care, etc. Although your paper will not involve any people, still you should know how to conduct research with real people.
Say, you are interested in a certain issue teenagers experience, your data can be existing research papers you found in the library or news articles about the issue. Or if you are interested in school performance, then your data could be the aggregated student records published on the school or district websites that are publicly available. These data are existing information and public records, you do not need to conduct any empirical research to collect any experimental data or observational data by yourself. Do not include any identifiable or confidential information of any person, this includes photos (unless it is taken on the public street or existing data).
You should carefully examine the topic, explicate the theories you use, interpret phenomena in terms of the constructs you choose, and relate your analysis to educational domain and broader social significance. The paper should be 8-10 pages in length, including citations and a bibliography, typed and double-spaced, and written in APA style. The paper should exhibit overall coherence and academic rigor, be submitted to D2L Submission, and follow this order:
• Topic: show clear aims and objectives of a narrowly defined topic.
• Literature: summarize relevant research literature.
• Methodology: articulate your methodology (philosophy in general that guides your
thinking) and method (specific type of research method you used to study your research
question).
• Results: critically analyze and evaluate the result using research methods you choose.
Include graphs or figures to support your ideas when necessary.
• Discussion: thoroughly discuss the meaning of your results.
• Conclusion: ends with conclusion and implications, or directions for future research.
IMPORTANT: I would like my paper to be about peer influence on adolescent alcohol and drug use