Sexual Assault Assignment 11

Instead of a quiz this week you are going to write a short (2-3 pages) paper. You will choose ONE of the topics below and do some research on the topic and complete the paper:

Topics to choose from:

Female Sexual Offenders

Online Sexual Predators

Juvenile Sex Offenders

Assessment of Sexual Offenders

You can use info from your text to start with, but you will need to use additional sources to complete the paper (more is better here!). Since this is a research paper (even though it is pretty short) you will need to cite your sources using APA Format. You don’t have to do a title page or Abstract, but you will need a References page (not counted in the 2-3 pages). You can earn up to 30 points for this paper. It should define terms carefully and everything you say about the topic should be supported with some kind of credible research source (it is NOT an opinion paper!). Submit your completed paper to the drop box by midnight Sunday night in Week 6

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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.