{"id":29176,"date":"2023-08-14T00:44:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T00:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/this-writing-assignment-is-designed-to-require-students-to-think-critically-communicate-demonstrate-empirical-and-quantitative-skills-and-assess-social-responsibility\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T00:44:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T00:44:28","slug":"this-writing-assignment-is-designed-to-require-students-to-think-critically-communicate-demonstrate-empirical-and-quantitative-skills-and-assess-social-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/this-writing-assignment-is-designed-to-require-students-to-think-critically-communicate-demonstrate-empirical-and-quantitative-skills-and-assess-social-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"This writing assignment is designed to require students to think critically, communicate,  demonstrate empirical and quantitative skills and assess social responsibility."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Technical Aspects \u2013 50 points<\/strong>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Minimum 3 pages typed text PLUS cover page and reference page (maximum 5 pages of text)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Minimum 5 reliable\/academic sources (in-text citations and reference page) APA format (if you are unfamiliar with APA formatting, do a simple google search for examples)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">12 point font<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Times New Roman<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Double spaced<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Standard margins<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">College appropriate spelling\/grammar\/sentence structure (proofread your paper)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Social Issue (This is the criteria for choosing your topic)<\/strong>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Something that has a significant effect on our society or the world<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Something that is at least somewhat controversial<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">There must be competing viewpoints<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Resolution\/solution\/conclusion is unknown<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Something that interests you<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Content (150 points; 50 points per section)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Content : Part 1 (50 points)<\/strong>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Introduction<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Define and justify<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">What is the issue and why is it significant?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Content: Part 2 (50 points)<\/strong>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Examination of both sides of the issue<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">What are the arguments and what is the evidence? Evidence should be<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><u style=\"cursor: auto;\">data driven<\/u>.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">This is the<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"cursor: auto;\">scientific<\/em><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>portion of your paper and should NOT contain your opinions. A reader should not be able to discern which position you support.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Be aware of the quality of sources that you use \u2013 Garbage in = garbage out!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Utilize online databases that contain scholarly information (check with your library: EBSCO; google scholar)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Content: Part 3 (50 points)<\/strong>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Conclusion\/critical analysis<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Strongest arguments\/weakest arguments and why?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">What\u2019s rational\/logical \u2013 supported by the evidence?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">What\u2019s emotional \u2013 not supported by evidence?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Is there an underlying issue of importance \u2013 can you make any inferences about the issue?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Should we try to resolve the issue or not \u2013 why? How?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Do we have some sort of responsibility to address this issue as an individual\/society?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Give your educated opinion on the future of this issue. What happens if you do nothing vs something?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Propose a research idea that would help us understand the issue better.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technical Aspects \u2013 50 points Minimum 3 pages typed text PLUS cover page and reference page (maximum 5 pages of text) Minimum 5 reliable\/academic sources (in-text citations and reference page) APA format (if you are unfamiliar with APA formatting, do a simple google search for examples) 12 point font Times New Roman Double spaced Standard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[681],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/29176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/29176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=29176"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=29176"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=29176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}