Write your personal thoughts and reactions to concepts and theories in the readings.

Each writing assignment should be 6 pages in length typed in APA style (Times New Roman, font 12), double-spaced, and with a cover page that includes your name and the course ID number. Write your personal thoughts and reactions to concepts and theories in the readings. Be introspective. Please follow the specified format, or points will be deducted. No hand written assignments. Written Assignment Guidelines: a. An Introduction: Introduce the specific chapter of your choice b. Choose a portion of the assigned chapter that you understand very well and that is easy for you to define or summarize in your own words. c. Choose a movie, current news events, a newspaper article, or a story of a personal experience and then summarize it in your own words and/or explain exactly what this is about without going into details. d. Do a comparative or a contrastive analysis (of b and c), that is, explain how they are related or how they differ. In either case, state your point by explaining what portion of the chapter you summarized, exemplifies or confounds (differs) from the movie, current news event, newspaper article, or personal life story you have selected. e. In your conclusion, explain what specific lesson(s) that you have learned from the chapter or analysis, and how you can apply it into other situations. In addition to the lessons learned, make a recommendation. Most importantly, this paper must reflect what you have learned when comparing these independent facts to the assigned reading chapter of the week. f. A citation page Grading Criteria: Following guidelines; Quality of work (including substance and grammar); and Professionalism.
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