Sexual Literacy Research (Sexual Orientation) Project description Sexual Literac
Sexual Literacy Research (Sexual Orientation)
Project description
Sexual Literacy Research Essay Instructions
Essay Topic/Content Expectations for the seven-page paper.
A. Carefully follow these steps:
1. Read Dr. LeVayas book Gay Straight and the Reasons Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation. You will need to be familiar with the major concepts and the empirical
research reviewed in LeVay.
2. You will be using Google Scholar for this assignment. Read the entry in Wikipedia about aGoogle Scholara. This entry will help you understand how Google Scholar
works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Scholar. Read this entry before conducting a search in Google Scholar.
3. Use Google Scholar and locate a single research article on the topic published in the last 10 years. The article you locate must be based on social research not an
opinion or propaganda. To help you determine if the article is social research read through the criteria listed at the following website: aEvaluating Sources of
Informationa https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/03/.
4. Choose a research article that addresses some aspect of sexual orientation.
Topic & Personal Reflection Based on the recent review of the scientific literature by Dr. LeVay as well as on the primary research article you locate using Google
Scholar develop a plausible scientific explanation accounting for the development of diverse sexual orientations in humans.
The essay should provide a plausible scientific explanation for the development of varying sexual orientation(s) in humans in light of the scientific evidence. The
essay should consider the following kinds of questions:
v What factors seem most important in the development of sexual orientation(s)?
v Based on the evidence are there differences in the development of sexual orientation for males and females?
v How would an evolutionary psychologist an evolutionary biologist or a sociobiologist account for the development of varying sexual orientation(s) among humans?
v What can we learn about sexual orientation based on research on other animals including other higher primates?
v What various kinds of scientific evidence exist that help us to understand the development of diverse sexual orientation(s)?
v What factors might explain the persistence of different sexual orientations throughout evolutionary history?
1. Overview
Write the essay as if you were writing to someone who is literate but who has never heard the essay prompt or read the book or the article and you want to explain
how the concepts/evidence would help them understand sexual orientation:
Make sure to use a clear focused and well-developed thesis statement to organize the essay. One can read up on thesis statements here:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/thesis.htm
2. Application of Course Concepts
a). Compare and contrast the perspective of the articles with one another and with perspectives covered in other course readings.
b). Apply theoretical perspectives covered in course lectures/readings that would help illuminate the issues addressed by the question.
III. Essay Format Guidelines:
A. Length: 7 pages give or take 0.25 page (no longer no shorter) not including the references/bibliography p
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