Assignment Task:
First Draft: Article Review on Behavioral/Non-Substance Addictions or Process Addictions:
Assignment: Article Review on Behavioral/Non-Substance Addictions or Process
Addictions: This is the writing assignment and is identified as the WI product for prewriting, drafting, and tutor/instructor review. For review students may choose to use AUM tutoring services on-campus or on-line; or use the WID intern. See the guidelines below for review of the draft.
Students will review a professional article (no webpages or magazine articles) on a process addition; see list of professional journals below. A Behavioral Addictions also called process addiction is also called a non-substance-related addiction or behavioral addiction and it includes a compulsion to repeatedly engage in an action until it causes serious negative consequences to the person's physical, mental, social, and/or financial well-being. One sign that a behavior has become addictive is if it persists despite these consequences. Examples include but are not limited to:
gambling, sex, shopping, internet, overeating, body modification (tattoos, piercings, etc), videogames, and others. Need Assignment Help?
*Please Note: internet sources that are based upon professional print sources are acceptable for the review. Non-professional and unverified websites are not acceptable. The paper must be no less than a full page long (not including cover) and provide the reference for the article, double-spaced, New Times Roman 12-pt font, and APA format (see page, item 2 of syllabus).
Guidelines for Review: The first draft must be reviewed by the WID Intern, a campus tutor or online tutor. Please identify which in your review. The 1st draft must be submitted with the reviewer's comments. The review should (1) Note any formatting or grammar problems; (2)
Identify at least two things (you may identify more) that you think are particularly strong about the draft. Please use full sentences - no bullet points; (3) Identify two or three aspects of the draft that appear weak, problematic, or ineffective; (4) Identify the most important changes that are recommended for the final submission. (All Objectives)
The first draft must be reviewed by a campus tutor or online tutor - Please identify which in your review.
The review should:
(1) Note any formatting or grammar problems;
(2) Identify at least two things (you may identify more) that you think are particularly strong about the draft. Please use full sentences - no bullet points
3) Identify two or three aspects of the draft that appear weak, problematic, or ineffective;
4) Identify the most important changes that are recommended for the final submission.
Journals (Your paper should come from peer reviewed Journals such as the ones below, these are only suggestions bur remember that magazines and other non-peer reviewed sources are not accepted.)
List Of Substance Abuse Journals*
Addiction. New York: Taylor & Francis.
Addictive Biology. New York: Taylor & Francis.
Addiction Professional. Providence, RI: Manisses Communication Group.
Addictive Behavior. New York: Pergamon Press.
Addictive Disorders and Their Treatments. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Advances in Alcohol and Substance Abuse. New York: Haworth.
Alcohol. New York: Pergamon Press.
Alcohol and Alcoholism [Official Journal of Medical Council on Alcoholism]. London: Oxford
University Press.
Alcohol Health & Research World. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. [refereed]
Alcohol Research and Health. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. [refereed]
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research [Official Journal of the Research Society on
Alcoholism]. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly. New York: Haworth.
American Journal on Addiction [Official Journal of American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry].
New York: Brunner-Routledge.
American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. New York: Taylor & Francis. [refereed]
British Journal of Addiction. Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishing.
Contemporary Drug Problems. NY: Federal Legal Publications. [refereed]
Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Philadelphia: Elsevier.
Drug and Alcohol Review. New York: Carfax Publishing.
Drugs, Education, Prevention, and Policy. New York: Taylor & Francis.
Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling. Alexandria, VA: American Counseling
Association. [refereed]
Journal of Addictive Diseases [Official Journal of American Society on Addiction Medicine]. New
York: Haworth.
Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education. Lansing, MI: American Alcohol & Drug
Information Foundation. [refereed]
Journal of Chemical Dependency Treatment. Binghamton, New York: Haworth.
Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse. Binghamton, New York: Haworth.
Journal of Drug Education. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing.
Journal of Drug Issues. Tallahassee, FL: School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Journal of Ethnicity and Substance Abuse. Binghamton, New York: Haworth.
Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community. Binghamton, New York: Haworth.
Journal of Primary Prevention. New York: Plenum.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. San Francisco: Haight-Ashbury.
Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Picataway, NJ: Alcohol Research Documentation.
[refereed]
Journal of Substance Abuse. Philadelphia: Elsevier.
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. Philadelphia: Elsevier.
Nicotine and Tobacco Research [Official Journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and
Tobacco]. New York: Carfax Publishing.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. Washington, DC: American Psychological
Association.
Substance Abuse. New York: Plenum.
Substance Use and Misuse. New York: Dekker.
* This is not a comprehensive list.