Research Writing Essay

Find and read/listen/watch two mainstream media sources that clearly focus on one specific psychological disorder. Examples of such sources include but are not limited to: Media report/Newspaper or Magazine Article/Movie/TV episode/Radio broadcast. Make sure you pick two different types of source (e.g., a movie and a newspaper article, a television show or episode(s) and radio show, etc. Do not pick two of the same general type of mainstream media sources (i.e., two newspaper articles, two movies, two episodes from a television show, even a movie and tv episode should be avoided). Blogs and personal websites should also be avoided. You also need to read three scholarly journal articles on the same psychological disorder (these should be peer reviewed, published articles in the professional/academic literature – a textbook cannot be counted as one of these three but you should discuss material from a textbook as well in your paper). You will have to search the scientific literature in order to find three articles that help you make your arguments. In this essay, make sure you include critical comments about the representations in each source where appropriate, specifically focusing on the differences between the scholarly and mainstream representations of that disorder. A main objective here is to recognise how unscientific or pseudoscientific and otherwise factually incorrect representations of psychological disorders can contribute to stigma. So you should explicitly discuss the issue of stigmatization as it pertains to your chosen disorder and its representations in your chosen two mainstream media sources. Format your essay using 1'' margins and Times Roman 12 pt font. It must be double-spaced, which should result in about 6 pages of text, with an additional title page and a final page(s) for your references. It is the actual count of 1,500 words that is important not the number of pages (and you must include your word count on your title page). List all your references (including any textbooks) on the final page using APA format. Your title page and reference page(s) are not included as part of the 1,500 total word count.