SC 213 Brain & Human Behavior

SC 213 Brain & Human Behavior

WRITING ASSIGNMENT 1
This paper is DUE on: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5th
If required, an extension will be granted to Tuesday, October 11th without penalty.
Papers submitted after Oct. 11th will incur a large penalty – see course policies.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Instructor Information
Instructor: Vinoth Jagaroo, Ph.D.
Office: 216 Tremont Street, Room 904
Phone: 617-824-8311

Check your essay before you submit. See exactly what your professor sees.

See your AI and plagiarism results before your instructor does.Get the exact same report your professor uses. Trusted by 50,000+ students worldwide.

Get Plagiarism Report Humanize My Essay

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 am – 11:45 am or by appointment
PLEASE SEE YOUR COURSE SYLLABUS FOR GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT
WRITTEN PAPERS FOR THIS COURE. You are reminded that this paper will constitute 16%
of your final grade for the course. This paper will be scored on a scale of 0-100 points.
• Choose ONE topic from the three topics on the following page.
• USE THE PRESCRIBED 3-PAGE TEMPLATE TO WRITE OUT YOUR PAPER. Your
paper must conform to the sections, format and length set by the template. Papers that
deviate from this format will NOT BE ACCEPTED.
• The paper must be typed. Line spacing may be 1.5 or 2.
How the paper should be formatted:
• Your paper should conform to the prescribed template, available on CANVAS.
• Each required portion of the paper must be fulfilled: Introduction; body/overview;
relevance/application; conclusion; and references.
• Use 12 point font size and one of the following fonts: Times Roman, Palatino, Arial or
Helvetica (or a font that closely matches one of these fonts if you do not have any of them).
• All books, journal articles, websites, or other materials that you use as source material for the
assignment MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED.
• If you are unable to use the prescribed template, your paper must apply the following margin
sizes: left and right = 0.8; top and bottom = 0.5.
References/Source Material:
Please use at least 5 references as source material for your paper. At college level, you are
expected to carry out library research in the process of writing your paper. This involves reading
through books and/or journal articles — which should be the primary source of reference material
for your paper. A paper that relies entirely on websites for reference material will not be
satisfactory. For the minimum of 5 references, use at least three books and two journal articles.
You may use any commonly used style to cite material within your paper and to write out your
reference list (bibliography). The APA style is the norm is Psychology but you are not required
to use it at introductory psychology level. If you wish use the APA style of adapt it in some way,
you can find plenty of guidelines online.
TOPICS (Choose ONE of the following four topics)