Issue Analysis Paper- Sport Psychology
In the Issue Analysis Paper, you have selected a topic, issue or subject relating to sports psychology, and now you are asked to analyze the topic in the first half of the paper.
Identify an important Issue related to sport psychology and describe that issue in detail during the first half of the paper. Then, in the paper’s second half, analyze the issue and suggest solutions.
Issues can include mental or physical conditions, performance, goal-setting and imagery, aggression and violence, group processes, competition, etc.
Write in 3rd person point of view (the most objective and analytical), as though your readers are intelligent but not fully informed about the topic.
Your paper must be developed using research material from at least five sources. You may not use your textbook as a source. Also use the Internet for some of your material as long as you access scholarly resources and not popular media such as Sports Illustrated, Psychology Today, opinion .com sites or blogs, About.com sites or others that do summarizing for readers, abstracts without reading the full article, etc.
