Introduction, Thesis Statement, and Annotated Bibliography
Prepare: To help with the preparation of your annotated bibliography, review the following tutorials and resources from the Ashford Writing Center:
Introduction Paragraph Guide
Thesis Statement tutorial
Annotated Bibliography tutorial
Sample Annotated Bibliography
Evaluating Sources
Reflect: Reflect back on the Week Two Discussion in which you shared with the class the global societal issue that you would like to further address. Explore critical insights that were shared by your peers and/or your instructor on the topic chosen and begin your search for scholarly sources with those insights in mind.
Write: For this assignment, review the Annotated Bibliography Formatting Guidelines and address the following prompts:
Introductory Paragraph to Topic: Refer to the Final Argumentative Essay guidelines for your topic selection. Write an introductory paragraph with at least 150 words, which clearly explains the topic, the importance of further research, and ethical implications.
Thesis statement: Write a direct and concise thesis statement, which will become the solution to the problem that you will argue or prove in the Week Five Final Argumentative Essay. A thesis statement should be a declarative statement that makes one point in 25 words or less. The thesis statement must appear at the end of the introductory paragraph.
Annotated Bibliography: Develop an annotated bibliography to indicate the quality of the sources you have read. For each annotation, you need to summarize in your own words how the source contributes to the solution of the global societal issue. Your annotation should be one to two paragraphs long (150 words or more) and fully address the purpose, content, evidence, and relation to other sources you found on this topic. The annotated bibliography must include no less than five scholarly sources that will be used to support the major points of the Final Argumentative Essay. Critical thinking skills need to be demonstrated by accurately interpreting evidence used to support various positions of the topic.
The Introduction, Thesis Statement, and Annotated Bibliography Assignment
Must be 1,000 – 1,250 words in length (excluding the title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must use at least five scholarly sources.
Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
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school assignment school week 3
hi here is the topics. its the entire discussion post. this should help!
Describe effective methods you used in identifying and narrowing down to just one of the two topics to further research for your final essay.
Global societal issues refer to the problems and challenges that affect each member of the society worldwide. Some of these issues include adult illiteracy and minimum wage. Adult illiteracy is global problem which involves adults acquiring minimal skills that are required in day to day activities, and interaction with the environment. Minimum wage involves the minimum amount that the employers are supposed to pay.
There are various methods which can be used to identify the global social issues. One of the effective methods of identifying the rate of adult illiteracy worldwide is making use of reports and evaluations. Evaluations involve examining the members of the society to come up with an accurate number of the individuals who do not have knowledge and skills acquired through the learning process and take necessary measures to ensure that all the individuals acquire these skills (Anderson et al.n.p).
Explain three ways you can critically analyze sources to determine if they are scholarly and credible.
There are ways in which sources can be analyzed to determine whether they are scholarly and credible. Some of the ways include; analyzing whether the source is timely and fit for its field, identifying whether the author’s name is provided and looking at the publisher of the source.
For one of the topics chosen, summarize information from at least two peer-reviewed journal articles from the Ashford University Library that will support your claims.
Peer review involves scrutiny of the source by the board of colleagues in the field of authors. The peer-reviewed journal by Watkins talks of the health interventions by the health sector to educate the adults on issues dealing with health (Watkins et al.n.p). The peer review journal by Diviani talks about the low health literacy among the adults in the society (Diviani et al.n. p).
Explain why scholarly sources should be used to support your writing on the selected topic.
Scholarly sources provide authority and credibility which helps in improving the quality of the research carried out by an individual.
References
Anderson, Emma Louise, Eloisa Steen, and Vasileios Stavropoulos. “Internet use and Problematic Internet Use: A systematic review of longitudinal research trends in adolescence and emergent adulthood.” International Journal of Adolescence and Youth 22.4 (2017).
Diviani, Nicola, et al. “Low health literacy and evaluation of online health information: a systematic review of the literature.” Journal of medical Internet research 17.5 (2015).
Watkins, Ivan, and Bo Xie. “eHealth literacy interventions for older adults: a systematic review of the literature.” Journal of medical Internet research 16.11 (2014).
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Minimum wage is referred to the least amount of money that an employee should be paid hourly. The introduction of minimum wages may have worked while the concept was still new as it was designed to offer economic fairness to all in that it prevented employees from being overly exploited. However, with time several issues have arisen in regards to minimum wages, and there have been many people pushing for its increment. When the minimum wage was introduced, it was more of an economic and moral issue which was pushed for in the New Deal.
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