Psychology Topic and Mode Rationale Assignment

DBFA 605

Advocacy Project Assignment Instructions

Overview

You will submit a topic with a 200-word rationale for your topic and how you plan to present it to the community (with at least 3 cited sources) detailing why the issue is relevant to public policy and the mode of choice is being chosen. I must approve your topic prior to submitting it for grading. Please email a quick synopsis of your selected topic for advocacy. 

Please submit assignment in the following format:

· Include title page in APA format with Running head;

· Paper must be at least 200 words;

· Do not use personals experiences, or the words “I,” “you,” “me,” or “us” in your papers. Must be based strictly from research using the course text or JFL Online Library.

· Format paper in Times New Roman, 12-point font, with 1” margins all around paper.

· Type paper in paragraph format (5-7 sentences per paragraph).

· Remember citations are placed before the period in a sentence. Ex: Human services professionals can assist in referring clients to additional resources (Sire, 2009). 

· Indent paper at the beginning of every paragraph.

· Do not justify your paper. Align all paragraph margins to the left side of paper.

· Include an APA formatted Reference page at the end of paper on a new page.

· Submit paper in assignment area located in Module/Week Two folder. 

For this assignment, you will draw on your studies to produce an advocacy plan for the issue featured in the Persuasive Essay and using the communicative mode of your choice. The issue in the Persuasive Essay will be used to create a local advocacy project. After giving some thought to any specific action plan(s) to be encouraged, the other key part of this assignment is to choose an appropriate mode for how this advocacy might work (e.g., oral, written, visual, digital, live, online, recorded, etc.).

You will be given an opportunity to justify your choice of mode, so the choice itself needs to be a rhetorically sound, deliberate, and based on the conditions under which the desired audience will encounter the advocacy piece. You will only address how you "plan" to use this mode in the human services profession.

Instructions

The aims of this assignment are twofold: 1) to demonstrate an awareness of what constitutes effective advocacy (e.g., its differences from persuasion), and 2) to show a strong awareness of the rhetorical benefits of different modes of communication, as well as their weaknesses.

Part 1

Topic and Mode Rationale: You will submit a topic with a 200-word rationale for the mode of choice (with at least 3 cited sources) detailing why the issue is relevant to public policy and the mode of choice is being chosen.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

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