Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2017/tDCS and motivation

Template
Hi u3133240 :) If you want to 'quick start' your chapter check the instructions in the purple box on the Book chapter - Author guidelines page. This adds the template material and create an initial structure, which is what I've done to start my chapter. Hope this helps! --U3012363 (discuss • contribs) 04:02, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Hello, u3133240 As suggested above there is a template that can help with the initial structure of your chapter. Along with this template is a template to format your references so they're conforming to APA 6th referencing. Good start however i would suggest a few more topic headings eg. external links. As this is a requirement for the assignment however very simple. Hope this helps, u3141330. --U3141330 (discuss • contribs) 7:01, 4th September 2017 (UTC)

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 03:40, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Feedback and suggestions
Hi! Great choice of topic, I find tDCS endlessly interesting as it has so many applications! I just have a few suggestions for helping this chapter to meet the assignment criteria. Keep in mind that our audience is a lay/non-expert audience, so a more comprehensive description of exactly how tDCS works might be useful! Also, as the target reader is a "general (non-topic-expert) reader interested in personal growth and development", it might be useful to focus on some of the more general applications of tDCS, such as those found in Jones, Gözenman and Berryhill (2014), rather than clinical applications only. There are also interesting applications of tDCS around motivated decision making and reducing impulsivity in substance abuse. If you do want to focus specifically on depression, it might be good to examine the mechanisms of tDCS (eg. anodal stimulation increasing prefrontal cortex activity), and whether this effects motivation directly, thereby reducing depressive symptoms, or indirectly, with reduced symptoms leading to greater self-belief and therefore motivation. Don't forget to tie in some theories of motivation either! Good luck and good work so far! RaniaLillian (discuss • contribs) 01:28, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

APA references
Topic is coming along nicely, I had a look through and edited some of the intext references to APA format. I only did the ones i was 100% sure of so please double check yourself before submitting. Keep it up! --Maddison Frost (discuss • contribs) 08:45, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

General Edits
Just made a few changes for aesthetic reasons, box colour and image postions. Keep it up! --Maddison Frost (discuss • contribs) 11:25, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Presentation and Interactive Elements
Hey there - I love love love this topic so many clinical and practical implications and you have incorporated a comprehensive review thus far - well done. I noticed that there is an area on the rubric that requires examples:

"Consider including one or more practical examples, such as case studies. Try to apply the selected theory(ies) and research to everyday life situations that readers are likely to encounter.

I believe incorporating a case study into your chapter will be an effective way of illustrating your theoretical examples especially when tDCS may have been used in a clinical sense - i.e. in the field of dpression? Under your motivation section you have provided a really extensive real-life application, and for me this was your most well written part so maybe considering doing this again with a more tDCS and motivation approach?

Also there is a section in the rubric titled 'integrative features' worth 5% and this includes the utilisation of quizzes, tables, figures etc. Maybe incoperating a quiz or some tables may enable you to get the full 5%?

Overall great job for undertaking such a difficult topic, well done Jane --U3144362 (discuss • contribs) 12:52, 22 October 2017 (UTC)u3144362 11:52PM

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 10:51, 24 November 2017 (UTC)