Motivation and emotion/Assessment/Chapter/2010

A free online textbook authoring exercise by students

The goal
The goal of this assessment task is to develop an interesting, well-informed, clearly-written and well-presented free, online, academic textbook chapter for a specific motivation and emotion topic. This exercise aims to help students advance their psychological theory and research knowledge about a motivation or emotion topic of individual interest and to develop problem-solving and communication skills through the task of developing a free and open textbook chapter about the topic.

Overview


This assessment task involves:
 * 1) Topic : Many topics will be available to choose from. In addition, you may propose topics. Each topic may only have one assigned author.  Others may also comment. For more details, see the Table of Contents.
 * 2) Location : The chapter should be constructed as a single page on English Wikiversity and be linked to from the Table of Contents.
 * 3) Academic integrity : The chapter should be independently-written, with all sources attributed, as per standard academic integrity and plagiarism guidelines.
 * 4) Collaboration : You may collaborate with others on the chapter, as long as you are the primary author and as long as other people's edits are clearly distinguishable from your own (e.g., in the page's editing history).
 * 5) Word length : Aim for approximately 2,500 to 4,500 words. There are no word count penalties. More is not necessarily better.
 * 6) Links : Include relevant wiki links (e.g., to pages on Wikiversity and Wikipedia) and relevant external websites. Be judicious - only high quality, relevant links should be added.
 * 7) Images : It is recommended that you include some relevant, accompanying images (e.g., photographs, drawings, diagrams) to facilitate readers' understanding of the concepts. Images must be already available from, or be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (which requires that the copyright holder agrees to apply one of the acceptable open licenses). Embedded images should also be accompanied by explanatory captions.
 * 8) Multimedia : Include hyperlink(s) to accompanying multimedia which you create as part of the multimedia assessment exercise.
 * 9) References : Provide a reference list for cited sources in APA style. These should primarily be high-quality peer-reviewed psychology references.
 * 10) Feedback : You are encouraged to seek feedback about your chapter as it develops by posting to the discussion forum with a link to your chapter (or emailing or messaging the convener). In particular, it is strongly recommended that you seek feedback about your:
 * 11) Chapter plan/outline
 * 12) Draft chapter