Instruction
Please read and watch the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpmebYgnYN8&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=MarkStewart
To help you gain a greater depth of knowledge in a specific area of your choosing, you are required to find a specific outside resource and provide a written summary of the sourceas well as a personal analysis of the issues and concepts involved. Resources may include a relevant newspaper, magazine, or journal article, or a relevant educational video presentation. Books, advertisements, pamphlets, Hollywood movies, or personal experiences are not acceptable as sources. Generally, acceptable articles have an identified author and include some discussion of psychological research/concepts. This is not a research paper, so you must use onlyone source. The purpose is to give you experience in thoroughly understanding and analyzing a single, specific published piece of information. In order to earn the best possible grade on this assignment, please pay attention to the following criteria:•Source is relevant to psychology (ask me if unsure) and a copy or an electronic link to it sent to my e-mail address separately. Please do not submit your article or link to it along with the paper you submit to Canvas.•Source is of sufficient length (generally at least three pages of text -ask me if unsure) and quality to generate at least the required length paper (as indicated below)•Source has at least some reference to academic research or concepts that have a scientific basis (the source does not have to be a journal article but should have some link to science)•Paper is typed (double-spaced) with a standard size (12) font, and turned in on time•Paper is at least4 complete pages, appropriately divided between a summary of the source and a personal analysis of the source (the length of the analysis is
more important, and therefore should generally be longer than the summary)•Basic rules of spelling and grammar are followed and paper is easy to read and understand•Summary is accurate and comprehensive (for the main points) and in your own words/style•Analysis shows evidence of considerable thinking about the article and the issues it raises. You may want to relate it to the information learned in this class, argue some of the points made in the article, discuss the implications, relate it to a personal experience, etc. The highest scores go to papers in which some kind of theoretical discussion occurs. It's not enough to simply state that "the article was good," or that you "agree with it." Even when you illustrate your agreement with the article through a personal experience, you should add other discussion. It usually helps to present alternative views -play the "devil's advocate"and examine the points made in the article from multiple perspectives. You should have opinions about the issues related tothe article and these should be presented in your paper. The analysis, which is mainly a reflection of your personal creativity and ability to thinkdeeply, is the most important part of the paper. In writing your paper, you should make it veryclear what portions of your paper are summary and what portions are analysis.This assignment is worth 70 points and is due to Canvas by midnight on the date indicated later in the syllabus unless indicated otherwise in class. In addition, you will be asked to e-mail meacopy of the article (or a link to it) within a day or two ofsubmitting the paper to Canvas. Papers submitted to Canvas after the due date will be docked 3 points for every day beyond the due date. For students who for whatever reason fail to turn in a paper, the highest grade achievable in the class will be a C regardless of performance on the other graded components in the class.