Summary of point structure for three-part Course Project:
Week 1 Assignment Topic Choice
Week 2 Assignment Short Article Analysis
Week 5 Optional Rough draft review
Week 6 Assignment Literature Review
10 points
40 points
none
155 points
205 points
Milestone # 1 (Week 1)
Topic Choice (10 points). Choose a specific category of deviance that interests you (you are not
limited to types of deviance mentioned in the text). One good way to locate a topic is to skim
the table of contents or the subject index of our course textbook. The next step involves
searching EBSCOHost in the DeVry Online Library and credible resources from the Internet. Did
you find at least 8 or 10 articles, which would suggest there is enough information for a
literature review? If not, go through the process with another topic.
Note 1: For Internet website credibility standards, see Doc Sharing for guidelines.
Note 2: This assignment will become the Introduction in your Literature Review due in Week 6.
Note 3: You will be using external sources of information and are therefore required to use
citations.
Note 4: You must use Microsoft Word in 10 pt. font. You may single-space your content
because this is an informal document. However when it is incorporated into the final Literature
Review you will need to double-space this content.
Graded Product. Write a 150-200 word informal report. Identify the topic you chose, describe
it briefly and report what you found out about the availability of material for a literature review
from your preliminary investigation.
Here is an example of a topic choice write-up, which contains 169 words including the citation.
Deviance Topic ChoiceI am interested in cults, sometimes called new religion movements,
which exist on the margins of mainstream society because they have rituals, beliefs and
practices that are different enough to be perceived by society as threatening to social order and
therefore deviant (Myers, 2010).