Prior to beginning work on this assignment,
- Visit the PubMed Central website.
- You may also consider reviewing the PMC User Guide and PubMed® Online Training to help you navigate the resource more effectively.
| Write
For your assignment this week, you will complete the second step of developing ideas and content for your final project. Continue with your topic choice from Week 2 and, as a reminder, the topics are:
- Option A: a brain-based disorder
- Option B: a brain process
This week, you will gather at least four additional scholarly sources that relate to the behavioral, cognitive, or emotional aspects of your topic. Please note that the topic you selected will determine what questions you will address in this week’s paper, and you must continue with the same topic for the final presentation.
In your paper,
- Option A: If you have selected a brain-based disorder,
- Describe the disorder’s key symptoms and how those symptoms may be caused by the specific brain regions or networks you have identified.
- Option B: If you have selected a brain process for a particular behavior,
- Discuss how information flows through the brain networks related to your behavior, cognitive function, or emotion of interest.
- Continue explaining the roles of each brain region identified in this process, and you may add a few new brain regions beyond what you mentioned in Week 2 to further identify how the nervous system creates the process of interest.
- Consider your goals and audience when deciding how many brain regions to describe. If you or your audience wants detailed information about the brain, you may mention many regions. If you or they do not need as much neuroanatomical detail, you may stay with three or a few more regions.
| Assignment Requirements
The Brain and Behavior: Final Topic Selection (Part 2) paper,
- must be two to three double-spaced pages in length [500-750 word] (not including title and references pages and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word resource.
- must include a separate title page with the following written in title case:
- title of paper in bold font
- Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
- student’s name
- name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
- course name and number
- instructor’s name
- due date
- title of paper in bold font
- must utilize academic voice.
- See the Academic Voice resource for additional guidance.
- must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
- Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement indicating the purpose of your paper. Phrase the thesis by focusing on how your work would benefit your audience. For example, “In order to help the public understand vision…”.
- For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions and Writing a Thesis Statement, refer to the Writing Center resources.
- must use at least four scholarly, peer-reviewed sources in addition to the course text.
- The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source.
- To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view Quick and Easy Library Research tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
- must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper guide.
- must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center.
- See the APA: Formatting Your References List resource in the Writing Center for specifications.
Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
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