4-2 Final Project Milestone Two: Outline

PSY 327 Milestone Two: Outline Guidelines and Rubric

Overview For Milestone Two, you will submit an outline of your final project. This milestone aids you in preparing for your final project. By outlining the planned persuasion attempt in detail, you will lay out the logic of your persuasion attempt, what academic resources you will marshal to inform the plan, and so forth.

Assignment Instructions This outline should specify the structure you anticipate employing for your final project and should include more than four peer-reviewed journal articles. You should include the abstract to each citation the first time each article is mentioned in the outline and can use the citation (in APA format) in all other mentions. You should clearly link the research to the proposed persuasive techniques.

Format: Milestone Two should follow these formatting guidelines: use of more than 4 academic sources, 2–3 pages double spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins, and citations in APA format.

Milestone Two Rubric

Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Inclusion of Articles Used to Design

Approach

Meets “Proficient” criteria and provides an annotated bibliography with more than four article citations and abstracts that correspond to the ones used to design the approach

Provides an annotated bibliography with at least four article citations and abstracts that correspond to the ones used to design the approach

Provides an annotated bibliography with less than four article citations and abstracts OR with six or more article citations and abstracts that are not related to the design

Does not provide an annotated bibliography with article citations and abstracts

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Structure of Presentation Outline

Links Research to Proposed Persuasive

Techniques

Meets “Proficient” criteria and includes enough detail to clearly specify how the final project will be written and presented

Provides a well-structured outline that links articles identified in first critical element to the proposed persuasive techniques. Selection of techniques makes sense given the proposed behavioral change sought

Does not sufficiently provide a structured outline that links some proposed persuasive techniques to evidence or includes selection of techniques that are not well suited to the proposed behavioral change sought

Does not link articles to the proposed techniques and techniques proposed are not well suited to the proposed behavioral change sought

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Articulation of Response

Meets “Proficient” criteria, and submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-to-read format. APA format is correctly applied

Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, APA format, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, APA format, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, APA format, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

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Earned Total 100%