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essay should be between 1000-1250 words long (not including heading…
essay should be between 1000-1250 words long (not including heading and references). This essay needs to be long enough to get the job done thoroughly. You may write essay longer than 1000 words. You may not write an essay shorter than 1000 words without being penalized in your grade. You must cover everything listed below in order to obtain a high mark.
Writing and citations should be in APA format. For example, (Lally & Valentine-French, 2017).
Note: For all written assignments, only the material assigned in the course should be cited. Show evidence of thoroughly reading and listening to the course resources. This is preferable to outside research. If you also provide additional resources, they will be graded on their scholarly credibility; that means sources of questionable truth may result in a lower grade on the essay and sources of good credibility may result in a higher grade.
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT: Identifying Your Own Identity
Erikson is most famous for his adolescent stage, the stage he called Identity and Identity Formation. Actually, Erikson believed that identity formation goes on all of our lives, although he felt concern with formulating one’s identity is most predominant during adolescence.
Using Erikson’s theory as a springboard, psychologist James Marcia talks about four aspects of identity development (Module 5 at a Glance: Readings: Marcia). These include:
Identity Achievement
Identity Foreclosure
Identity Moratorium
Identity Diffusion
Pick one area of identity formation in your own life from one of the following areas:
career/education
religion
political beliefs
sexual orientation
gender identity
Tell how you have moved among the four aspects of identity development that Marcia identified. Include your entire life from adolescence to the present, even if your chosen aspect of identity formation has not changed since adolescence and/or even if you are in the life stage of adolescence. Your essay must include information about identity achievement, foreclosure, moratorium and diffusion.
If you have only moved through one, two or three of Marcia’s four aspects, write about those that you have gone through. Then, also write about the other stage or stages.
A HINT REGARDING WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS
The following will perhaps save you from having a written assignment returned to you for further work: You will note that most of the written assignments in this course ask you to reflect on your own developmental experience and write an autobiographical analysis of that period in your life. It is not necessary to do additional research for these assignments, but it is assumed that you will include in your analysis how your experience compares and contrasts with the theoretical propositions and research that you have been reading about in the text or listening to on the Watson CDs. Without this connection to what you have been learning, your essay becomes just a story and does not reflect what you have been learning.
