Self Esteem

Identify a specific topic/area of interest [yours] within one of these major topics below and expand upon it.

 Attitude Change.

 Self Esteem

 Long-term Intimate Relationships

 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

 Self disclosure

 Telecommuting

 Social distance and social connectedness

 Interpersonal attraction

 Ethics

 Group dynamics

Provide background and a summary of the topic including a closing in which you state your support (or non-support) with rational for your position - In your own words.

Provide citations to support your assumptions and closing.

DO NOT simply summarize the topic, as if you were writing a text book.

The paper must:

1) Be at least 5 pages long (the page count DOES NOT include the Title page, Abstract page or Reference pages).

2) Be written in APA format in APA format following the guidelines in the Written Assignment Submission Checklist located in the Doc Sharing Area (i.e. including but not limited to abstract, citations, summary, references and formatting.

 I have placed a number of items regarding APA format, style and requirements in the Doc Sharing folder.

 I will answer any APA issues you have but you need to ask me for help.

 Hint1: Use your weekly writing assignments as a vehicle to establish and understand the APA requirements for your class paper

 Hint 2: If you don't know how, learn to look at your document in print preview and/or print it out BEFORE you submit it

3) Contain at least 5 references.

 Of which no more than two can be websites, note, I did not say you couldn't use the web to access sources, I said that no more than two can be a website.

 Wikipedia IS NOT a valid reference source.

4) Final paper means that it be submitted in a "print ready" state.

 Which means the instructor (and you) should be able to print it and it be correctly laid out without extra pages, extra spaces, etc.

 Hint: it also means you should spell check, grammar check and read it BEFORE you submit it.

5) The electronic document for the final paper must contain