you choose the one from which you will benefit most.
OPTION ONE:
The focus of this option is our secondary text, Confusing Love with Obsession. Your
paper should be at least 1,250 words in length. Additional sources or references are not
required for this assignment, but if you quote, paraphrase, or summarize a source
(including the texts), you must document it in APA format.
These are the questions/points to consider to which you should respond in your reaction
paper:
1. Using sociologist John Alan Lee’s love styles (refer to pages 261- 263 of Intimate
Relationships, and pay special attention to Table 8.7 ‘Styles of Loving’ found on the top
of page 262) from chapter eight of "Intimate Relationships", what is the predominant
love style for most of the characters presented in the book, Confusing Love with
Obsession.
2. What character if any did you identify with most from the book? This can be either
yourself or someone you know.
3. Briefly outline the characteristics of the Obsessive Love Wheel at each stage of the
wheel.
4. After reading the book, what knowledge did you gain about love addiction?
OPTION TWO:
This option allows you to choose from a selection of several chapters of books by
scholar Deborah Tannen that are available electronically from the APUS library. As with
the other option, your paper should be at least 1,250 words in length. Additional sources
or references are not required for this assignment, but if you quote, paraphrase, or
summarize a source (including the reading or the text), you must document it following
APA format.
These are the questions/points to ponder that you can use to develop your reaction
paper, but feel free to ask yourself additional questions. Remember that this paper
should give your reaction to what you have read, meaning you may agree, disagree, or
both. However, you cannot merely say you agree. You must explain why clearly.
1. After reading the selection you have chosen, think about either your own situation
that reflects the subject of the reading or about situations with which you are familiar, or
both. You should not use full names or real people, please! It is preferable to give
people aliases rather than use their names.
2. Outline some of the characteristics of the communication situations described and
analyzed in the reading.
3. Did you identify with the people and situations in the selection? How? If not, how do
you engage differently in interpersonal communication in similar situations to the ones
described and analyzed?
4. After reading the selection, what knowledge did you gain about interpersonal
communication in general?
Here is the selection of readings:
Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends
(2005)
Deborah Tannen
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/apus/docDetail.action?docID=10254482
Read Chapters Two, Three, and Four
Family Talk: Discourse and Identity in Four American Families
(2007)
Deborah Tannen, Shari Kendall, and Cynthia Gordon, eds.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/apus/Doc?id=10194219
Read Chapter 1 plus any other chapter, 2-11
Gender and Discourse
(1994)
Deborah Tannen
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/apus/docDetail.action?docID=10086928
Read Introduction and Chapter 3
You’re Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation
(2006)
Deborah Tannen
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/apus/docDetail.action?docID=10124874
Read any chapter
