Alzheimer’s Disease

Your term paper is due on Friday, December 4, 2020. No exceptions!!

Instructions regarding your assignment: You are responsible for a term paper with the topic
being an organic disease or disorder that has affected you in some way. It might be that you are
directly affected or it can be a member of your family, a close friend, etc. It can also be on a
disease that is of interest to you. The term paper should be between 5 to 6 pages, and the following guidelines should be utilized:

1. Your term paper should have the following information:
a. The name of the disease or disorder. Some diseases have multiple names that should be
included.
b. How the disease or disorder affects the individual who has it.
c. Is there a genetic component to the disease?
d. Explain how the disease affects the body. Provide descriptions.
e. Is there something special about this disease that has not been seen with other diseases?
f. How many individuals in the population are affected? Provide statistics.
g. How did this disease affect you or your family?

2. Make your selection with enough anticipation so you have ample time to research it. I will
request you turn in your topic soon. I expect individual papers, no group efforts.\

3. Consult with me should you have any problems with your research. The Internet is a good
source. There are also books, magazines and other sources that you can use.
4. You must type your term paper.

5. You must include a bibliography with references and it must be properly annotated. If
you use material from the Internet, please be sure to provide the web addresses in your
bibliography. Any paper turned in without a bibliography is an automatic “F” until the
bibliography is received.

6. Be sure to interpret the information you obtain and explain it in your own words, do not
commit plagiarism by quoting the author word for word. Do not refer to the reader in your text
with terms such as “you” or “your”, keep your prose objective: for example; instead of writing
“you will get lung cancer if you smoke”, you should write, “a person can get lung cancer if they
smoke”. Keep quotations to a minimum and paraphrase any of them you think are important.

7. Be as thorough as possible with your research.

There will be no exceptions for the date in which you need to turn in your term paper. If it is
late, for every additional week of delay, your grade will drop. As an example, if it is one week
late and merits an “A”, the grade will drop to a “B”. Please do not risk your grade; turn it in on
the assigned date or before.