Topic: Exercise Adherence
In the Issue Analysis Paper, you have selected a specific topic, issue, or subject relating to sports psychology, which is presented in our PSYC460 assigned readings. Examples include: Goal Setting, Imagery, Stress Management, Group Cohesion, or Exercise Adherence. Now, you are asked to analyze the specific topic/issue in the first half of the paper.
First: Identify an important specific topic/issue related to sport psychology, which is presented in our PSYC460 assigned readings. Examples include: Goal Setting, Imagery, Stress Management, Group Cohesion, or Exercise Adherence and describe that topic/issue in detail during the first half of the paper.
Second: In the paper’s second half, analyze the topic/issue and provide suggestions/ solutions/improvements to be considered about this topic/issue. Analysis requires breaking a subject, issue, or event into its constituent elements so that the assumptions or components are made clear and the relationships between them are made explicit.
Thus, through the Analysis paper, the student demonstrates comprehension of the material being analyzed. In that Sport Psychology is interdisciplinary, you can borrow topics and subjects from other areas in which you have an interest, but we must be sure the topic/issue relates to sports psychology and the topic/issue is presented in our PSYC460 assigned readings. Examples include: Goal Setting, Imagery, Stress Management, Group Cohesion, or Exercise Adherence.
The paper is not a personal opinion or reflection style paper. As such, it should NOT include personal stories or observation sharing, but must analyze the topic/issue; the personal, you or I, should be removed from your composition. You should write from 3rd person point of view (i.e., the most objective and analytical), as though your readers are intelligent but not fully informed about the topic/issue.
A reminder, your paper must be developed using a minimum of (5) APA formatted references [i.e., at least three (3) scholarly
peer-reviewed research
journal publications].
Course reading materials are not allowed as references.
You may also use the Internet for some of your research material as long as you access scholarly resources and not popular media such as
Sports Illustrated,
Psychology Today, opinion .com sites or blogs, About.com sites, or others that do summarizing for readers, abstracts without reading the full article, etc. NO WIKIPEDIA articles may be used for this paper.
