Topic: Impact Sleep has on adolescent positive emotions
Please include the following 5 components in your Proposal/Outline. Although there is no predetermined length for the following sections.
Please format your outline to include the following:
I. Introduction
Provide a general description/overview of your topic;
What is your thesis statement? A strong thesis statement will describe how your topic fits into the study of Positive Psychology and why you believe your topic is necessary to reframe the status quo;
Use in text citations throughout your introduction to demonstrate which sources you intend to use to support your thinking/arguments.
II. Significance and Influence
Discuss your topic’s influence on our culture, collective well-being, education, politics, policies and laws, environment, etc.;
Briefly describe the status quo you believe your topic can influence.
Discuss the significance of re-norming or shifting the status quo. How might your topic make a positive difference moving forward?
Use in text citations throughout your introduction to demonstrate which sources you intend to use to support your thinking/arguments.
III. Analysis and Synthesis of academic research
Briefly describe the main arguments or sub-categories within your topic area that you plan to analyze through relevant, academic research;
Your goal should be to have 3-4 arguments or sub-categories you plan to analyze through relevant research;
Use in text citations throughout your introduction to demonstrate which sources you intend to use to support your thinking/arguments.
IV. Conclusion and Predictions
Re-introduce your thesis statement; then, anticipate/predict your topics’ future trajectory;
To what extent will this topic matter to the study of Positive Psychology in the future? Ten years from now, how will this topic influence your life/work? How will it influence greater society?
Do you predict there will be a new application for this topic? Do you predict there will be a new direction for future research? If so, what?
Use in text citations throughout your introduction to demonstrate which sources you intend to use to support your thinking/arguments.
V. APA reference page, including the 5 annotated sources you intend to use for your paper.
These are the references you should integrate throughout your outline as in text citations to demonstrate support for your ideas and arguments.
Please read the directions for this assignment carefully. Please make sure to familiarize yourself with APA annotation formatLinks to an external site., which is required for your five sources.
You are welcome to use our course text as an additional source, but the text will not count toward the required 5 sources.
You are welcome to use more than 5 sources; I will expect you to annotate the 5 sources that you rely on most to inform your paper.
Additional annotations beyond the initial 5 are welcome, but not required. If you choose to use more than 5 sources, please include all of your sources on one reference page, alphabetizing your annotated and unannotated sources.
