University of Southern California Effect of Caffeine Consumption Discussion

This research paper is a group paper. The topic/research question for my group is “Does caffeine consumption improve academic performance among college students?” All group members will be taking on different tasks/subheadings to write about. (For example, some topics discussed by my group members will be how caffeine increases focus, or negative and positive side effects of caffeine consumption, the risks, or if caffeine increases IQ, and etc.) I or in this case you, are in charge of writing the introduction for this research paper topic. I want my portion of the paper to be an introduction for the remainder of the paper, but I also want to discuss caffeine itself. I want to go into what caffeine actually is and what it consists of. In other words, the ingredients in it, and what makes it addicting, and what causes it to help you focus or stay alert or to improve performance, or why it has those effects. I want to take a look into some data or research into the most common coffee bevagre that is drank by college students and see how that caffeine consumption helps improve performance. I want to discuss all of these areas, but again this is going to be an introduction. It needs to be only two pages, so cover all fields but not in INTESE detail. You do not need to offer any solutions in the Introduction, just the overview of the topic. Please format the paper using the APA style. The paper will be turned into a software that checks for plagiarism and often times paraphrasing a sentence gets caught by the system as well, so please make sure everything is cited, but avoid making the entire two pages just direct quotations from sources. At a minimum you will need articles found using a variety of methods including web search engines, and university literature databases of peer-reviewed journal articles.