SPHE461: Current Trends in Fitness & Wellness
Cumulative Project –Part 1
Week 3 Assignment & Rubric
*Week #3 Assignment*
This exercise is designed to help you gain the tools necessary to assess the fitness, sport, and health industry, current trends and practices, and their relationship to health and wellness management.  In addition, this will help you understand how current health and fitness trends will impact your personal career in this industry.  This project will give you some experience in addressing an issue with a more current trend/practice and designing a plan for its implementation using evidence-based solutions.
Week #1 Deliverable Items:
Topic Paper (no more than 3 pages)
Media Gallery (pics) contribution
Please read all instructions very carefully
Introduction to your Project (“topic paper”): Selecting a Community/Organization & Current Trend of Interest
This week 3 assignment is a short paper that addresses each of the items below serves as a proposal for your project.  You will also submit a contribution to our Week 3 Assignment Media Gallery of our classroom.  This is not a presentation, just a depiction of your organization and/or current trend.  
This is a 2-part assignment that requires a submission to the Week 3 Media Gallery Discussion area, as well as the submission of a paper to the Week 3 Assignment area.
Part 1
In a 1-2 page paper, please identify and describe a community or organization of interest to you, as well as a description of a current issue that effects this community. 
Please be sure to include:
Description of the community or organization of Interest
Explanation of the health and/or fitness problem in that community or organization
Explanation of the interrelationship between your community/organization and the current health and fitness trend you are reporting on
See additional formatting guidelines below.
Part 2
Please upload a picture to the Week 3 Assignment Media Gallery that depicts your organization and/or current trend that you will be discussing. 
Obtain or create your artifact (picture).
Select the Week 3 Assignment Media Gallery link that is located in the DISCUSSION area of our classroom.
Upload your artifact
Add a short description of your organization/trend
Add a short description so your classmates can see and comment.
There is a small point value to this (see rubric for details).  Please consider this an area for collaboration with your classmates.  This type of sharing can provide you with (free) peer feedback on your project.  Other than the points for simply uploading your picture, this is a totally ungraded area and free from instructor comments. 
Additional Instructions
Your submission must be attached as a WORD document only.  All references (2-4 peer-reviewed references required), in-text citations, and narrative must be in APA format.  You are to construct a paper that has a solid introduction, body, and conclusion that addresses all items listed above.   
Hint:  If you use the above items as section headings, you will have an easier time including all of the requirements.  So, the layout of your paper may look something like what is outlined following this paragraph. Suggested headings are in bold.  Please keep in mind that you may use different headings and that what is listed below is for purposes of example and does not depict APA formatting.
Introduction
In this section you will identify and describe a community or organization of interest to you, as well as a description of a current trend and how you can use it to benefit this community/organization.  In essence, you will be describing what you are about to write about.
Community or organization of Interest
Describe
Identify why this is important to you 
Health and/or fitness problem in that community or organization
Explanation of the health and/or fitness problem in that community or organization
Summary
Conclusion
The basics of APA formatting:
Include a title page
1-2 pages in length (this requirement does not include the title or reference pages)
Please feel free to include appropriate graphics and photos
Include an appropriately formatted reference list (2-4 references)
Please keep in mind that if a resource is listed on your reference list at the end of a paper, it must first have been used in the body of your paper as an in-text citation
1” margins all around (no additional indenting –except 1st line of each paragraph)
Double-spaced throughout paper
APA in-text citations and reference formatting is required
12-point, times new roman or arial
The majority of the paper should be written in 3rd person –this means no personal opinions, no sentences with “I” “my” or other 1st person text.  This is an academic/scientific paper; with the caveat that you will also be including information about your project that pertains to your actions.
Your submission must be attached as a WORD document only. 
Please name your document using your lastname, first initial, course number, and assignment number. Example: Oddi B 461 Week 3
*Please submit only one (1) document -If you use tables or graphics, please incorporate them directly into your word document prior to submission.
As you submit your assignments, each paper is automatically run through Turnitin.  Please look for a Similarity Score of 20% or below. Do not try to pass off other’s work as your own.  If you submit your assignment early enough and feel that your Turnitin score is too high, and that you would like to do a little more editing, you may submit it again.  If you do this, allow for additional time for Turnitin to return an originality report.  Planning ahead is important.