Please read and answer the questions posed in the worksheet, “Developing a Research Question.” The only sources that you are permitted to use are the 3 grounding articles that you used for the Pyramid exercise. No citations are required for this assignment.
The purpose of this activity is to brainstorm everything you know and to discover what you need to know in order to propose a solution to the ongoing social conflict.
Use the prompt and your three articles to help you to complete this assignment.
The Writing Prompt for Essay Three
This paper is to argue for a solution to a current social problem, using academically-sound texts to support your paper. The essay length will be at least full eight pages with a Works Cited page on page 9, 10, or 11.
Five required sources:
Minimum 3 articles from New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, PBS, NPR, and Vice
Minimum 2 scholarly, peer reviewed articles from the AVC Library Ebsco subscription
Required sections of the research paper:
Introduction with a description of the current social crisis (social event) (2 pages with policy proposal in thesis)
History of the current social crisis (how did it originate? What is its genesis?) (2.5 pages)
Argument for particular social policy with a specific intended audience (1) page)
Critique of your proposed policy solution (.5 page)
Answer the critique (.5 page)
Conclusion that discusses why it matters: local and global (1 page)
do Freytags pyramid for the long story
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Instructions:
After completing freytag’s pyramid for the long story of your current event, please follow the outline of your pyramid, filling in each blank. The purpose of this worksheet is to walk you through the content of your argument in the order that it will occur in your paper. You will develop unique topic sentences with supportive evidence from your research. Notice that each topic question requires direct evidence from your sources, which means actual quotes from your material. Each topic must be unique; no repeated topics. By the time you have completed this assignment, you will have organized your entire argument for the paper and supported each claim with direct evidence. The last step in this process is to write your paper, adding in the analysis of your evidence.
