Directions: Briefly identify a social dilemma in your life that you are trying to resolve and what you see as your role in that dilemma. This will be an issue that you will return to at various points in the course as we learn new ideas from social psychology. You will be asked to identify any 4 ideas that you feel help explain and/or shed new light for you on this social dilemma. For each idea, indicate:
How it helps you to interpret (or reinterpret, if it changes you perspective) the dilemma
How it may suggest a way to resolve the dilemma
Parameters: Final paper is to be about 600 words long; roughly 100 words to describe the social dilemma from your life and roughly 125 words to relate each of the 4 course-derived ideas to your dilemma, as indicated above. A title and reference page, in APA format, are required. The minimum word requirements of 600 words is exclusive of the title and reference pages. Include a minimum of one reference, with accompanying citations, in APA format.
You are expected to write primarily in your own voice, using paraphrase, summary, and synthesis techniques when integrating information from class and outside sources. Use an author’s exact words only when the language is especially vivid, unique, or needed for technical accuracy. Failure to do so may result in charges of academic dishonesty.
Overusing an author’s exact words, such as including block quotations to meet word counts, may lead your readers to conclude that you lack appropriate comprehension of the subject matter or that you are neither an original thinker nor a skillful writer.
