Assignment 1: Sex and Age (sexual issue with age)
Assignment Instructions
Issue Analysis & Application Paper Instruction
This 6-page, not including the title and References page, two-part paper due by the end of Week 4 of the course term requires selecting an instructor approved issue, or problem in need of a solution, related to adult development and aging, researching and analyzing information about it, and applying learning by proposing a possible solution for the problem. The paper must be developed using research material from at least four academic, scholarly journals, in addition to the course textbook.
The first step in completing this assignment is to send a classroom Message to your instructor with the issue you select for your paper by the end of Week 2 of the course term. Papers submitted without Week 2 approval of issue focus cannot be graded.
Analysis involves researching and comparing different elements of an issue to acquire in-depth knowledge of its component parts. In this section of the paper you will demonstrate knowledge of the issue you selected by describing and comparing various aspects of it, drawing on a minimum of 4 academic journal articles from the APUS Online Library in addition to information in the course textbook. This portion of the paper should not attempt to discuss every possible problem associated with the issue you selected but rather to focus on just one problem that you find interesting and compelling enough to want to solve after conducting your issue research.
Application requires putting into action one’s knowledge and ideas about a problem and how to solve it, which in this case are informed by the scholarly material you reviewed in the writing of Part 1. In this section of the paper you will demonstrate the ability to apply what you have learned when researching the issue you selected by hypothesizing about and recommending possible solutions that could be used to address and improve the situation examined in the Issue Analysis part of the paper. The goal here is to attempt to solve the particular problem you identified in Part 1, not to introduce additional problems or identify every possible solution.
When you submit your paper a Turnitin "Similarity Percentage" (how much of the work is copied and not in your own words) will be auto-generated. A similarity percentage is considered acceptable if it is 10% or less. A Turnitin Similarity Percentage of 10%+ to 30% is considered not in compliance with student author originality standards and will result in significant point deduction, before the paper is graded for compliance with its other requirements as follows, without option for revision and resubmission to recover lost points.