Review of a website about ADD or ADHD.

Review of a website about ADD or ADHD.

Review of a website about ADD or ADHD.

Write a 750-1,000 word review of a website about ADD or ADHD. You will write this review for the general public, so you might target a particular publication, such as a student or local newspaper or one of the national magazines. This will help you anticipate what your readers already know, what they value, and what criteria they accept as a basis of evaluation.

Complete the following:

1.      Develop a set of criteria that the general public would see as acceptable for a website about diseases and disorders (like ADHD).

2.      Describe the website you have chosen, and then explain how it does (or does not) perform the criteria you established above.

3.      Use at least two scholarly sources outside of class texts to augment your understanding and perspective on these facts and elements.

Use the GCU library for sources. Include this research in the paper in an appropriate scholarly manner. Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. You are required to submit this assignment to Lopes Write. Refer to the Lopes Write Technical Support articles for assistance. Please be sure to review your Lopes Write score before submitting the draft to your instructor. The final draft of this assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion of the assignment. You will receive completion points for the first draft based upon the successful submission of your draft.  The points are not an evaluative statement about your draft; be sure to consider all instructor comments as you revise your draft. In addition to submitting this draft to your instructor, you must also post this draft as an attachment in the Week 4 Peer Review forum by Day 3 of Week 4.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.