After reading the assigned chapters for your forum post choose six topics from those chapterst o write about. Your post must be a minimum of 1000 words for full credit. You may choosef rom the two options below. You may use initials or change peoples names to protect their
privacy. You must also make 2 thorough and thoughtful responses to other forum posts.
Support your statements with examples, experiences, or references. Post directly into the
forum, do not attach a Word document or PDF.
For your post you may
1) Describe examples from real life of a person affected by the topic or behavior from the chapter. You may describe someone you know or an example youve seen in the media and how it relates to what youve read in the text.
Or
2) Thoroughly describe and expand on a topic or behavior from the chapter. You may use
definitions from the textbook and other educational sources with information
referenced to avoid plagiarism. You may give your opinion about the topic.
FORMATTING EXAMPLE
Topic 1 Smoking during pregnancy, textbook pg. 65
My aunt Cami smoked before getting pregnant and during her pregnancy. Her daughter Lila was
born 8 weeks prematurely and weighed 5 lbs. The book states that preterm births and low birth
weights are more common among the offspring of mothers who smoked during pregnancy.
Lila developed asthma in middle childhood. Continue to describe, you could include your
opinion as well.
Topic 2 Down Syndrome, textbook pg. 51
My friend Joy has a daughter, Sky, with Down Syndrome. Joy was 24 when she had Sky.
According to our book the incidence rate is 1 in 1,900 at age 20, and then jumps to 1 in 300 at
age 35. My friend would cringe at the phrase incident rate as she doesnt feel it was a bad
thing to have a daughter with Ds, rather her extra chromosome (an extra copy of the 21 st) gives
her something extra special. Continue describing the topic.
Continue with topics 3, 4, 5, and 6 for a minimum of 1000 words.
Forum Rubric PSY 211
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