Posted: June 12th, 2015

Your Career in Psychology

Your Career in Psychology

Resources
scoring guide icon Your Career in Psychology Scoring Guide.
PDF icon APA Writing Feedback Rubric.
PDF icon Learner Guide to APA Writing Feedback Rubric.
Microsoft Word icon Your Career in Psychology Worksheet.
Microsoft Word icon Your Career in Psychology Template.

Throughout the course, you had opportunities to clarify your passions and interests in psychology practice and scholarship, create goals to help you achieve your vision, and explore the competencies and requirements for pursuing a career in your specialized field of psychology. This final assignment provides you an opportunity to transform your vision into reality by translating your exploration and brainstorming activities into a plan to actualize your vision and achieve your goals. Complete the following:
1.Review your completed work in the Your Career in Psychology Worksheet.
2.Review your formatted assignment in the Your Career in Psychology Template one last time to complete any last refinements.
3.Review the Your Career in Psychology Scoring Guide one last time to ensure you meet all requirements for your assignment.
4.Review your paper to ensure you meet the following additional requirements: •Length: 7–9 typed and double-spaced content pages (length excludes title page, abstract, and reference list).
•Font: Times New Roman 12 point.
•References: Include at least 4 scholarly or practitioner references.
•Written communication: Must be free of errors, scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the profession of psychology.
•Writing Style: APA expectations for scholarly writing include the use of third-person narrative, unless it is awkward to do so. Because you are talking about yourself in this paper, you may write in the first person.
•APA formatting: Must be formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting and include a title page, abstract, and reference list.

5.Submit the following for your instructor’s review: •Your completed Your Career in Psychology Template with your assignment content.
•Your completed Your Career in Psychology Worksheet with your prewriting, drafting, and reflective work.
•Your e-structor Response Form with your feedback from your Smarthinking submission.

6.Double-check to make sure your assignment was submitted. Review Courseroom Tour in the Resources if you need assistance submitting your assignment.

This activity should take approximately 1 hour. Contact your instructor if you have any trouble using the assignment area in the courseroom.

Note: Your instructor may also use the APA Writing Feedback Rubric to provide additional feedback on your academic writing. The writing feedback rubric does not affect your assignment grade, but its feedback may factor into the grading criteria, if professional communication and writing is a course competency. Evaluate your own work using this rubric. Refer to the Learner Guide for instructions on viewing instructor feedback.