INSTRUCTIONS
Introduction – You will select a book, a biography or autobiography–of someone who struggled with addiction and recovery.
Purpose- This assignment will help you to understand the struggle for substance misuse recovery from a deeply individual perspective. Many students enjoy this assignment because it brings together all the components of the semester into a compelling story.
Detailed Tasks/Key Components –
Your paper should be approximately 4-5 pages (double spaced) not including the title page, no reference page is needed.
Your headings should include, at minimum, the following, although you may select more or have sub-headings: (or you might use topics/sub-headings from the rubric or help organize your paper)
Introduction -Title, author(s), number of pages, state if autobiography, biography or fiction and why you selected this book, what drew you to it, and how long did it take you to read it.
Summary of the Story – Summary of the story at least one page minimum -2 pages maximum
Impact of Addiction -Detail at least 3 examples of how the addiction negatively impacted the person
Barriers to Recovery- Detail the personal struggles and / or failures of the person wanting to get clean and barriers to recovery
Impact on Reader- what did you learn about substance use disorders from reading this book.
GUIDELINES
Logistics/Submission Format – Be sure to organize your paper by subheadings as listed below:
Introduction -Title, author(s), number of pages, state if autobiography, biography or fiction and why you selected this book, what drew you to it, and how long did it take you to read it.
Summary of the Story – Summary of the story at least one page minimum -2 pages maximum
Impact of Addiction -Detail at least 3 examples of how the addiction negatively impacted the person
Barriers to Recovery- Detail the personal struggles and / or failures of the person wanting to get clean and barriers to recovery
Impact on Reader- what did you learn about substance use disorders from reading this book.
** I recommend you upload your paper early because you will need to run your paper through the Unichecker to ensure you have not accidentally plagiarized any other writing!
You will need to turn in your completed paper via Unicheck (the version of TurnItIn for Canvas) and review your similarity rating. Papers turned in with a similarity rating higher than 18% or that have a number of phrases that are not appropriately cited and paraphrased will not be graded and be given a score of zero. Please observe all UTA and School of Social Work guidelines about academic integrity and plagiarism. Plagiarism tutorial – https://library.uta.edu/plagiarism/index.php
