The ability to digest scholarly research is a helpful tool, especially for students interested in continuing their education beyond an undergraduate degree. In order to do so, we will review techniques that are useful in breaking down the anatomy of an article and understand the focal point of the article.
For your homework this week, you are to submit your topic for the green and red programs on crimesolutions.gov. In selecting a topic, it is recommended that we select something of interest because once the topic has been approved it cannot be changed since it will be used over the course to build different steps into the final project. It is highly recommended when selecting a topic that time is spent reviewing the options available in crimesolutions.gov. Picking a topic of interest will aid in the writing process since it is typically easier to write about something that sparks interest. The topic selection is a choice and will not be assigned. Remember the green and red programs must come from the same topic. You cannot select one from corrections and another from courts.
Please send me an email with your topic by 11:59pm on Monday Jan. 29th. Title the email – CJ 3675 Research Methods Topic. Part of your grade will be based on the ability to follow directions if your email is not titled properly it will result in a deduction of points.
Next week we will be reading an article to prepare you to read the articles linked to your green and red programs. Here is an overview of the anatomy of an article.
Baseline Writing-Write an email to your boss at ABC Consulting on an issue from a recent newspaper article (e.g. Wall Street Journal and New York Times) which you think will have the greatest impact on business in the coming year
Write an email to your boss at ABC Consulting on an issue from a recent newspaper article (e.g. Wall Street Journal and New
York Times) which you think will have the greatest impact on business in the
coming year
1. Choose an issue from a recent newspaper article (e.g. Wall Street Journal, New
York Times), which you think will have the greatest impact on business in the
coming year.
2.Write an email (limit 300 words) to your boss at ABC Consulting in which you Summarize the article in your own words
3. Persuade your boss that this issue is going to have the greatest impact on
business in the coming year.
Doris Lessing Essay "Group Minds"
For this assignment you are to write a brief summary (5-6 paragraphs) of the essay “Group Minds,” by Doris Lessing (594). Your aim should be to describe the main ideas in such a way so that someone who has never read the essay will fully understand what Lessing is saying. Keep it simple; keep it plain; keep it organized.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Pick one of the social spaces of the novel (i.e. Count Dracula’s castle, Dr. John Seward’s lunatic asylum, Count Dracula’s houses in London, Mina’s room, the outside spaces in or near London, etc.) and discuss its significance in relation to the characters, and ultimately your interpretation of the story. Put differently: Discuss how these settings, in all their details, contribute to build and mirror the characters’ thoughts and actions, which is what ultimately drives the plot and influences our interpretation. (Before you start writing, ask yourself a few questions: How do you interpret the characters that inhabit or act in “your” space? What drives them? What’s their status vis-à-vis the other characters? How and why are they important to Stoker’s story? Who or what might they represent in society? Once you’ve answered some of these questions for yourself, you’ll be able to tie your interpretation to your discussion of the symbolism of the space you picked, using direct quotes from the book.)
Learning Team Collaborative Discussion and the Learning Team Charter for Collaborative Learning Activities.
Charter: Individual Assignment : Resources: Week 2 Learning Team Collaborative Discussion and the Learning Team Charter for Collaborative Learning Activities.
Write a 260- to 350-word individual response to the following:
Consider the multiple definitions of collaboration.
Define collaboration and how you will apply it in this course based upon the discussion with your Learning Team. Be sure to reference and cite your sources.
Answer the question individually.
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment and be sure to attach a copy of your Learning Team Charter for Collaborative Learning Activities.
If buying domestic goods can boost domestic economy, why do people in the U.S. keep buying foreign goods, creating a huge U.S. trade deficit?
If buying domestic goods can boost domestic economy, why do people in the U.S. keep buying foreign goods, creating a huge U.S. trade deficit?
Write an essay (with introduction and conclusion) answering the question.
Support your ideas with relevant arguments and examples. List 2-3 sources in the references. Make sure you stick to a required formatting style. Get benefits of these sources citationmachine.net and easybib.com.
Are Anna and Gurov likeable characters? Does the answer to this question change as the story progresses?
Are Anna and Gurov likeable characters? Does the answer to this question change as the story progresses?
Write an essay (with introduction and conclusion) answering the questions.
Support your ideas with relevant arguments and examples. List 2-3 sources in the references. Make sure you stick to a required formatting style. Get benefits of these sources citationmachine.net and easybib.com.
movie analysis- Great Gatsby
Each of the film versions of Great Gatsby has its own strengths and some missed opportunities.
Pick
a character from the book and use outside sources to tell us how to interpret or understand her or
him, then analyze how each of the three movies portrays that same person. (If the movies leave him
or her out, why is that?)
marijuana
Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRLYV0_6zY8 and watch this series on marijuana. Our conception of marijuana has changed over the years. Were there things that you did not know prior to watching this series? What are the implications for thinking about context and how it shapes the health care experience? What about stigma? (This paper should be no more than 6 double spaced pages.)
Toulmin essay
This essay should be between 900 and 1000 words, excluding the required annotated bibliography.
First, you will choose a topic of interest for your Toulmin essay. Make sure that you choose a topic with two opposing sides. Then, you need to research that topic in order to specify the topic’s scope, so it can be easily discussed in 1000 word essay. For example, you may be interested in learning more about traffic issues in the United States. However, that topic is too large to cover in a 1000 word essay. After researching peer reviewed articles that discuss US traffic issues in general, you may discover that the metro system in the District of Columbia is underfunded and underutilized. Through your research, you found that you could make a claim that more funds should be made available in order to upgrade the metro system, which would improve traffic issues in the District of Columbia. This would make for a stronger, specific argument. The following overused topics may not be used in your essay: gun control, abortion, capital punishment, gay marriage, gays in the military, mandatory drug testing, euthanasia, childhood obesity, women in the military, diets (including the Paleo diet), workout regimens (including CrossFit), underage drinking, and the legalization of marijuana.
This essay must include a minimum of five sources. Three should be peer-reviewed sources, preferably from the APUS databases. From the library welcome page, click on Advanced Search at the bottom of the page and then check the “peer reviewed” sources box filter.
This video will hopefully clarify the term, “peer-reviewed”: http://youtu.be/rOCQZ7QnoN0. You may use eBooks; however, as discussed in your textbook, books generally are not as current as peer-reviewed articles. You may also use primary sources (interviews, statistics, etc); however, these primary sources should be obtained from experts within that field. If you cannot find strong sources for your chosen topic, then change your topic. If you have a question about the validity of a source, please email me, or post your question to the open forum.
Note: Consider your audience as laymen in the field with only general knowledge of your topic.
Make sure to include the following sections in your essay:
an introduction and claim,
background,
body,
and a conclusion.
Within the body of your essay, make sure to include the following in any order:
support for your claim,
opposing or alternate views,
the strengths and weaknesses of your opponents’ claims,
and your rebuttals of their claims.
After you have written your essay, please make sure to revise the content of your essay. Lastly, be sure to edit your essay by checking grammar, format, and smaller technical details. Please make sure your essay is written in third person.