Psychology #1010  – “Psychology in My Life” –  Departmental Writing Assignment G

Psychology #1010  – “Psychology in My Life” –  Departmental Writing Assignment
Greetings All,
Please find the relevant documents for your departmental writing assignment attached. The due date on this assignment is non-negotiable. As discussed, within several formats, you need ample time, and posting the assignment early has its benefits.  Everything has been available – since the beginning of your course – to include the assignment details, the rubric, and office hour discussions surrounding this task. (under Syllabus and Schedule).
I posted the writing assignment early in your syllabus to ensure that you have ample time to review the assignment, criteria, rubric, internalize the expectations, think about your writing plan and to, adequately, conduct research, develop and construct your responses, and select relevant supporting material. 
Best,
Dr.
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PSY 1010 DEPARTMENTAL WRITING ASSIGNMENT – PSYCHOLOGY IN MY LIFE (2) (1) (1).docx
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General Psychology (PSY 1010):
“Psychology in My Life” Writing Assignment
(100 points)
Purpose of assignment: To measure students’ ability to:
1) Explain major psychological concepts, theories, and perspectives.
2) Read and describe research methods used in a peer-reviewed journal to explain behavior.
3) Apply psychological concepts to personal, social, and organizational problems.
4) Use information literacy skills to locate appropriate research and other relevant community
resources and materials to create an informative essay.
Product: Students will write 3 page essay (not including title and reference pages) in which you
analyze and synthesize psychological concepts apply them to your speculations concerning your
career and your future life. In the essay, you will need to clearly identify your career and why
you have chosen it and then explain how what you have learned in psychology will enhance your
career and life.
Grading: This assignment is worth a possible 100 points.
Directions: The PSY 1010 essay will require you to use your critical thinking skills and your writing
ability to address a question of primary importance: How will you use psychology in your career and in
your life? In order to be able to successfully answer this question, you must be able to analyze and
synthesize psychological concepts and be able to apply them to your speculations concerning your career
and your future life. In your essay, you will need to clearly identify your career and why you have chosen
it and then explain how what you have learned in psychology will enhance your career and your life.
Your paper will make use of two sources. The first source is your textbook itself. You will select FOUR
PSYCHOLOGY concepts /topics from at least two different chapters to focus on in your paper.
The second source is an article from a refereed (peer-reviewed) journal (preferably an American
Psychological Association journal published within the last five years) which addresses one of the
psychological concepts or topics relevant to your intended career. You will want to find an article which
is research (data-driven) based and which uses the experimental or correlational method. The article must
have the traditional sections associated with a research study (abstract, introduction (literature review),
methods, results, discussion, and references). That means no reviews of literature or other types of
articles. If you are not sure, check with your instructor.
In discussing information from your text, you must reference the appropriate chapters, identify and
define each relevant concept, and explain why the psychological concepts you focus on are or will be
relevant to your career and your future life. You will be expected to use specific examples of how the
concepts will be relevant to your career. Merely saying a concept is important is not sufficient. You must
be specific about how it will benefit you in your career.
For the journal article, you will be integrating the article and its content into your paper to highlight its
significance to your chosen field of study rather than merely citing it. You will be using the journal
article to discuss its relationship to one of the concepts or topics you have selected as important to your
career. Note that you will be discussing the article and the implication of its findings for your career in
some detail, not merely mentioning it in passing.
Your paper must be done using APA formatting style which includes:
1) A title page with the title in the middle of the page
2) Page numbering in the upper right corner beginning with 1 on the title page
3) In-text citations in APA format (that means the citation follows either the quote or the paraphrase
of the information provided)
4) A reference page at the end (called References) in APA format
GRADING RUBRIC FOR PSY 1010 WRITING ASSIGNMENT
All Course Grading Rubrics will be posted under the Syllabus & Schedules Area of Blackboard