Independent Project: To College, A Major Life Transition
To help SAS seniors make the transition to college, you will write a post or series posts providing advice on ways to more effectively meet this major life challenge. Your topics will include ways to handle stress and maintain health.
Step 1
Read Chapter 17 and undertake further research on stress and health
Step 2
Write a post or a series of posts that covers the following topics:
- A definition of stress and an explanation of how it impacts health
- Advice on ways to reduce stress
- Advice on ways to maintain good health
As your audience is an intelligent one, include rationales based on psychological theories and studies.
Content and Style
- you will need to establish your credibility with you audience so ensure that your post or posts are directed at their needs and based on research
- you need to develop a writing style that will maintain the interest of your readers.
Criteria
Your project will be graded on your knowledge, research and audience appeal. You will need to find 3 seniors outside of our class to write comments about your project. This is a major component of your February Weblog. Due end of February.