Follow these general guidelines for all written assignments.
•	Avoid plagiarism. View the tutorial You Quote It, You Note It prepared by Acadia University. If you use a direct quote from the text, you need to use quotation marks and reference the text and page number. I would prefer that you try to put the concepts in your own words, but then you still should note you got this information from the text. In other words, every assignment you submit should have a reference section at the end. At minimum, you should reference your text in the following way (or something similar if you have a different edition) at the end of the assignment:

Myers, D. G. (2010). Psychology (9th ed.). New York, NY: Worth Publishing.
 
If you use additional sources such as other texts, articles, or web pages, please include those as well. Refer to Purdue University's OWL (scroll to the bottom of the page) for help with the APA format for your references.  You may lose points on assignments for not properly referencing sources.  If plagiarism occurs, students will lose points on the assignment or receive a score of 0 on the assignment, depending on the severity of the offense. Repeated instances of plagiarism can result in a grade of “F” for the course.
•	Turn assignments in on time. Assignments are due on 11:59 pm on Sunday ending the week they are assigned. Assignments will lose points for being late. Assignments will lose 3 points for every day they are late.    Assignments that are more than one week late will not be accepted.
•	Use formal writing in your assignments. This means that you should use complete sentences, try not to write like you talk, and avoid spelling errors. Proofread everything before posting. You may lose points on assignments for poor writing.
  
•	Make sure that you answer all parts of the assignment. If an assignment asks for three examples, make sure that you have three examples.
  
•	Write your assignment first in a word processor and save it.  Proof it, review it, and then copy and paste what you have written into the message box in the forum.  If you try to compose your assignment in the discussion forum message box, you may find that your session expires before you finish, and you may lose everything you have written.