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Individual Paper: Each student is required to submit an individual paper (both the hard copy to my #034
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mailbox at 15 floor of HHB campus and the soft copy via the Moodle’s assignment box) of no more than
750 words (format: typed, Font size 12, double-line spacing, 1-inch margins, APA format in referencing) on
or before Week 12, Nov 21, Saturday, 2009.
I. Objectives:
1. to provide a chance for you to work independently and demonstrate you academic potential and
understanding in the subject area; and
2. to encourage self-reflections, enhance insights, self-awareness or understanding with the subject
knowledge; and/or
3. to facilitate you to relate, integrate, and apply the knowledge and psychological concepts/theories
learnt
a. to your own development; or
b. to specific real-life issues/challenges usually faced by the health care professionals
III. Topic:
Please write on the ONE of the following suggested topics:
a) Identify and discuss ONE specific psychological/social weaknesses (e.g. any kind of phobias,
emotional, egocentric, insecure attachment, not assertive, low self-esteem, poor self-control,
defense mechanisms, etc.) of you as you grow that you would like to change, or you can also
select and analyze a specific individual from people around you in the real life (e.g. your
friends, your family members, etc.) and discuss ONE of his/her major psychological/social
weaknesses and how would you propose to change his/her weakness with reference to what
you have learnt in this subject.
b) Identify and discuss ONE specific health-related problematic behavior / habit / lifestyle (e.g. any
IV. Content:
1. Cover page – Your name, student ID no., course code and name, lecture group (101 / 102), tutorial
group (A / B / C / D), title of your paper, instructor’s name, and date of submission should be on the
cover page.
2. Content pages –
- Describe your own weakness / health-related problematic behavior and its major impacts
- Explain the major causes of your own weakness / health-related problematic behavior with the
MOST relevant/appropriate psychological concepts/theories learnt
- Provide suggestions/solutions on how to change/control your weakness or the behavior by
applying the MOST relevant/appropriate psychological concepts/theories learnt
- Total word counts (e.g. 738 words) at the end after the last paragraph.
3. References (adopt APA/MLA format) – To avoid any suspect of plagiarism, you must give proper
citations in your text and a corresponding list of references at the last page if any of your
points/information are/is derived from other sources (e.g., newspaper, books, websites, etc).
V. Grading Aspects:
Criteria Weight
Understanding
• Interpretation of concepts and theories 25%
• Relevancy of the concepts and theory used to the selected topic