Please choose to answer only one of the following questions for your first writing assignment.In your answer, please provide an opening statement, three arguments in support of your opening statement (opinion), three pieces of empirical research (i.e., studies) as support for your arguments,
and a closing statement. You may use any empirical, rigorous scientific research as support however, do not use anecdotal evidence, or unpublished work. You should use journal articles that report original data/
studiesas evidence. Please be sure to provide references for your empirical
support (APA-format; with reference list and paper citations).

Option 1:
In your opinion and based on scientific, peer-reviewed published evidence, do you think the infant contributes to its own cognitive development?
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or
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Option 2: In your opinion and based on scientific, peer-reviewed published evidence, what features,properties, and/or experiences in the world and with people allow for infants and young children to learn language?

Paper Format

Please format your paper into 5 separate paragraphs –an opening statement, three paragraphs for your three arguments and accompanying description of empirical evidence and a closing statement.

•Opening Statement = should include a restatement of the question posed to you in the assignment, your opinion (clearly stated), and a description of the three arguments you will use to support your opinion. For each of three arguments, I suggest a one-sentence summary of the specific findings from the study you will review below in each argument paragraph. Thus,
you will have three sentences, each summarizing specific findings (arguments) in support of your opinion.

•First Argument = you should start this paragraph with your first argument in support of your opinion. Again, I suggest a one-sentence summary of the specific findings from the study you are about to review in this paragraph.
This argument should be the very first sentence of the paragraph.
The bulk of the paragraph will then be used to describe research in support of this argument. You should describe at least one empirical study in support of your first argument in some detail. In your description of the study, please include the following information: (1) a description of the question the authors were examining; (2) a description of who and how many participants were used; (3) a description of the stimuli and/or assessments used to gather information on participants; (4) a description of the procedure used to gather this data; (5) the type of data collected (provide information about independent and dependent variables); (6) a summary of specific results of study; (7) a statement of how these specific findings provide support for your opinion.

•Second Argument= you should start this paragraph with your second argument in support of your opinion. Again, I suggest a one-sentence summary of the specific findings from the study you are about to
review in this paragraph.This argument should be the very first sentence of
the paragraph.The bulk of the paragraph will then be used
to describe research in support of this argument. You should describe at least one empirical study in support of your first argument in some detail. In your description of the study, please include the following
information: (1) a description of the question the authors were examining; (2) a description of who and how many participants were used; (3) a description of the stimuli and/or assessments used to gather information on participants; (4) a description of the procedure
used to gather this data; (5) the type of data collected (provide information about independent and dependent variables); (6) a summary of specific results of study; (7) a statement of how these specific findings provide support for your opinion.

•Third Argument = you should start this paragraph with your third argument in support of your opinion. Again, I suggest a one-sentence summary of the specific findings from the study you are about to
review in this paragraph.This argument should be the very first sentence of
the paragraph.The bulk of the paragraph will then be used to describe research in support of this argument. You should describe at least one empirical study in support of your first argument in some detail. In your description of the study, please include the following information: (1) a description of the question the authors were examining; (2) a description
of who and how many participants were used; (3) a description of the stimuli and/or assessments used to gather information on participants; (4) a description of the procedure used to gather this data; (5) the type of data collected(provide information about independent and dependent variables); (6) a summary of specific results of study; (7) a statement of how these specific findings provide support for your opinion.

•Closing Statement = should include a restatement of the quest
ion posed to you in the assignment, your opinion (clearly stated), and a description of the three arguments you will use to support your opinion. For each of three arguments, I suggest a one-sentence summary of the
specific findings from the study you will review below in each argument paragraph. Thus, you will have three sentences, each summarizing
specific findings (arguments) in support of your opinion.

Note: All assignments must be typed double-spaced, 12-point Times (or Times New Roman) font. There are no minimum or maximum page limits; but please be sure to review the grading rubric. All assignments will be run through Turnitin Software and I will examine Turnitin results carefully for
issues with plagiarism. Any assignment returning a similiarity score of 20% or higher will be carefully examined for plagiarism.