Assignment 2: The Application Paper

Assignment 2: The Application Paper

An admissions or application essay, sometimes also called a personal statement or a statement of purpose, is an essay or other written statement written by an applicant, often a prospective student applying to some college, university, or graduate school. The application essay is a common part of the university and college admissions process.

Some applications may require one or more essays to be completed, while others make essays optional or supplementary. Essay topics range from very specific to open-ended.

The University of Chicago is known for its unusual essay prompts in its undergraduate admissions application, including “What would you do with a foot-and-a-half-tall jar of mustard”?^[1][2]

The Common Application, used for undergraduate admissions by many American colleges and universities, requires a general admissions essay, in addition to any supplemental admissions essays required by member institutions. The Common Application offers students six admissions essay prompts from which to choose.^[3] All of the essays – and even the way you put things in order throughout the application – should be directed towards getting one “big idea”, a personal thesis that will be remembered after the entire package is read.^[4] According to Uni in the USA, the Common Application essay is intended as a chance to describe “things that are unique, interesting and informative about yourself”.^[5]

The application process for All Souls College, Oxford, has the reputation of being the hardest examination in the world. It consists of several specialist papers and, until 2010, also required candidates to write an essay upon a topic suggested by a single word^[6] such as Possessions, which was the topic of successful Fellow, A. L. Rowse.

By Wednesday, February 3, 2016, using the textbook and Argosy Online Library, write a 750-word paper using APA standards that includes discussion of the following:

 

1. Describe an example of a television program that you believe clearly displays social deviance, and explain why you specifically selected it.
2. In this television program, how are people “labeled” as socially deviating from the expected social norms, and who does this labeling?
3. Analyze the deviance, using terms such as primary deviance, secondary deviance, retrospective labeling, and stigma.
4. Apply Durkheim’s four functions of deviance to the deviant actions in the television program. What purpose(s) does the deviance play?

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Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Described a television show that displays social deviance.	16
Identified the people labeled as socially deviant and who labeled them as such.	24
Analyzed the deviance using the appropriate terminology. Applied Durkheim’s four functions of deviance.	24
Related essay writings to the concepts and theories discussed in the textbook and outside resources.	24
Used correct spelling and grammar and appropriate APA format.	12
Total:	100