Essay Assignment

There are some problems related to sexual activity that occur more often during adolescence and emerging adulthood. Identify and describe one problem related to sexual activity that more commonly occurs during this stage. Describe two traits of adolescents or emerging adults (choose from biological, psychological, cognitive or social characteristics) and explain how or why these traits increase the likelihood of this problem at this time of life. In other words, explain why some traits of adolescents and young adults put them at greater risk of developing this problem.  Cite at least two sources, and at least 2 must  be from a peer-reviewed journals. Minimum word count is 300 words. And please type double-spaced.
WARNING: You will get 0 credit for your sources if you have more than one quote. Paraphrase!

Criteria	Points	3 points	2 points 	1 point	0 points	
Identified and described problem	    /3	Correctly identified one problem and described it adequately	Correctly identified one problem but description was vague or unclear.
	Correctly identified one problem but did not describe it.	Did not identify a sexual-activity problem.	
Identified characteristics and links with problem	   /3	Correctly identified two characteristics of age groups and clearly explained the links between each of these characteristic and the identified problem.	Correctly identified two characteristics of age groups, but vaguely explained the links between these characteristics and the identified problem.
	Correctly identified two characteristics of age groups but with no explanation of the links between these characteristics and the identified problem. Or identified only one characteristic.	Did not correctly identify two characteristics.	
APA sources	 /2		Included at least 2 sources from peer-reviewed journals. APA format for both citations and references were used correctly.	There were fewer than 2 sources from peer-reviewed journals.
There were some formatting errors in the citations and/or references.	Any one of the following:
•	No sources were cited.
•	Sources cited were not relevant to the topic. 
•	Quoted more than once.
	
Writing Mechanics	   /2		No errors in grammar, spelling or other writing mechanics.	One error in any of the following:
•	grammar and spelling. 
•	incomplete sentence(s)
•	not written in essay form
•	less than 300 words
•	not double-spaced
•	incorrect file name	Two or more of the following:
•	grammar and spelling. 
•	incomplete sentence(s)
•	not written in essay form
•	less than 300 words
•	not double-spaced
•	incorrect file name	
Total                               /10