Some topics that would be appropriate to explore:

• Education/career plans as you entered college or after a first career
• Entering or dissolving relationships as a young adult
• Identity (gender, sexual, cultural, religious, ethnic, etc.)

Once you have determined your topic:

• Connect the personal experience to your chosen stage
• Explore what you learned (or are learning) from the experience
• Explain how has studying lifespan development helped you understand the experience

Formatting is as follows:

• 5-8 pages (including cover page and reference page…so, 3-5 pages of actual content!)
• Your paper must contain an introduction, thesis (what you plan to discuss/argue), and a conclusion
• 12 point font
• One inch margins
• Double-spaced
• APA formatted (use the paper template in this module, not the current event template)

3 references are required (1 can and should be the textbook, the other 2 must be peer-reviewed articles. See the library guide in this module for details on how to find these articles)

As always, 60% of your grade will be based on content (did you address prompts above?), 20% of grade will be based on organization and style, and 20% of grade will be based on APA formatting/mechanics/grammar.

Don’t forget – anything written in your paper that is someone else’s idea/work/research etc. must be cited within the paper and the reference must be included at the end of the paper on the reference page.