Each student will write a paper (at least 1250 words or 5 pages double spaced and as long as 7 pages) on the trend s/he has studied. As you explore your trend, you should identify several questions that you set out to answer based on your research.
- Using the theory/research we have learned about this semester (Erikson, Marcia, Harris, Bainbridge, Tatum, Mikel Brown, Pollack, Kimmel, Clark plus the documentaries/videos), analyze the trend and explain its role in adolescent development. You must integrate ideas from at least two of the people we have studied in your analysis. Do not quote from the course content without explaining the quote. You need to prove that you read and understand the material you are quoting and can use it to help you analyze the trend you have studied.
- From what you have learned, would you describe this trend as furthering adolescent development in a positive way or creating roadblocks for adolescents who are just trying to survive and move on? Don’t forget to consider who is responsible for this trend and what interests motivate them. Feel free to include multi-media in your final project and links to web sites of interest.
- Be sure to include a properly constructed bibliography using APA format (see the Writing Center website for instructions).
- Finally, based on your research and our studies this semester (not your own opinion), answer the course questions. What have you learned this semester that you can use to help you answer these questions (remember to use in text citations)?
You should definitely include your previous phases of the research project (with suggested revisions) in your final paper. You may want to do some additional research for the final paper if your research process has raised questions you have been unable to answer, or if you need additional information to be able to draw conclusions or understand how your subject affects adolescent development. You should consider the feedback you have received so far, and correct weaknesses in your previous submissions in order to produce the strongest possible final paper. Using additional sources is not required. However, be sure to include in text citations fora all ideas not your own – parentheses in your text (using the author’s last name and the year the article/book was published if you use more than one source by the same author) and include the source in your list of works cited. I will expect you to identify where you got any information you present that is not general knowledge (like the fact that Twilight is a four-book series). In other words, if you copy, paraphrase or summarize text from your sources, you need to identify the source.
This is where you make your argument and draw conclusions based on the research you have done. You should give your paper a title and make sure it comes together as a single document. This should be your best work, carefully presented. Proofread and make sure there are no typos. I will take points off for poor presentation. Include a list of Works Cited using APA format.
You will submit your final paper on Blackboard (through SafeAssign with no more than 5% matching) by the deadline indicated on the course schedule.
Suggested approach to the final paper:
• Give your paper a title
• Introduce it (give an overview of your subject and its significance)
• Present your research question(s)
• Report information from your fact check
• Describe your own research and report the results
• Analyze/interpret your research, using both what you read about and what you discovered
• Draw conclusions about your subject
• Draw conclusions about adolescent development based on your research (citing at least two of the course readings/viewings to support your conclusions)
• Address course questions (based not on your opinion but on what you learned from the research process):
1. Does adolescence inevitably precipitate an identity crisis through which all young people in all cultures must successfully pass in order to lead productive adult lives?
2. Do an individual’s gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, class, religion, and region affect the character of their adolescent experience, or do all people have to accomplish the same developmental tasks in the same way no matter who they are?
3. Are people pre-programmed in their genetic make-up to become who they are, or do they develop identities by choosing to be who they want to be? If they choose, what influences their choices and how and when do they become who they want to be?
https://www.drugabuse.gov/sites/default/files/teen… ( a link i used for my findings)
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