Question description
Final Research Project
The topic of your project needs to be a contemporary
societal problem, such as healthcare reform, immigration reform, privacy
rights, euthanasia, First Amendment Rights, stem cell research, capital
punishment, corporate prisons, legalizing drugs, ageism, animal rights,
cloning, prayer in schools, racial profiling, recycling/conservation,
sexism, outsourcing jobs, workplace bullying, etc. The topic must focus
on a single aspect, as in “How far do corporations intrude into
the private lives of their employers?” or “The social costs of financing
the distribution of custom-designed drugs.” You may suggest another
topic to use, but the instructor must approve the topic during the Week
Two Assignment help – Discussion.
The Final Research Project will present research
relating the responsibilities of a critical thinker to contemporary
society. In this assignment, you will do the following:
Research one aspect of a contemporary social problem.Define the problem.Propose a possible solution for the problem.Create an argument that supports your thesis position.
You should take on the perspective of a critically thinking researcher.
The argument must present a thesis statement and evidence to support
the thesis statement.Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from the
position you take on the issue and explain how those outcomes would
influence society and culture.Interpret statistical data from at least two peer-reviewed scholarly sources.Evaluate evidence using the following standards:
validity, reliability, and bias related to the chosen topic and
accurately identify strengths and weaknesses.
Research and Define the Problem
You must take on the perspective of your major field of
study and explain in your paper what that perspective is and how it
informs your view of the topic. The topics listed above are far too
broad to write about in 10–12 pages (3,300–3,900 words). Instead, you
must choose a narrowly defined thesis and approach it from the
perspective of your field.
Example: If you are an economics major,
and you are interested in immigration reform, you should approach a
very specific aspect of immigration reform through the lens of economic
theory and practice. A specific thesis question would not be, “How does
illegal immigration influence the U.S. economy?” One could write
thousands of pages on such a topic. Instead, a better question would be,
“How do illegal immigrant hotel workers in Chicago impact the economy
of Northern Illinois?” You would then want to do the research and
determine the positive and negative impacts they have, ultimately trying
to conclude how illegal immigration in this area should be approached
ethically.
How to Hone Your Thesis: It is important
that you start your research early in this course. Try to find the most
important contemporary questions and theories in your field of study
and then align the most important questions with a very specific aspect
of the general topics above. For example, if you are a psychology major,
you might want to start thinking within the realm of healthcare reform
or aspects of mental health and criminality in the prison system.
Your Argument
You must present a complete argument, including a major
claim with at least five points of evidence, information, or data that
will prove the claim.
The thesis statement must be
A clear, simple declarative sentence as the first or last sentence in the opening paragraph of the essay. Of such a nature that it can be substantiated,
corroborated, verified, and proved through appeal to primary or
secondary academic research source materials.
The introductory paragraph must Present the thesis statement, an explanation for the importance of the topic, and its relation to the student’s field of study.
Beliefs, opinions, and personal opinions must not be introduced at any point in the essay.All beliefs and opinions should be supported with academic evidence. Sweeping generalizations with no supporting academicevidence do not reflect adequate critical thinking skills.Do not include rhetorical questions in your essays.
All the questions that are pertinent to your project need to be answered
in your essay and your answers again need to be supported with evidence
from peer-reviewed journal articles and academically published books.
Attributes of Good Critical Thinking in Papers
Your paper should include academic sources that explain multiple sides of the issue. The evidence that you use should come from high-level researchers engaged in your field of study.Your interpretations of the evidence should be
objective and state the conclusions and theses presented in the evidence
clearly and fairly.Your paper should place the various forms of evidence
in relation to one another and demonstrate why one form or perspective
is stronger than the other positions that one could take on the issue.Your paper should point out the limitations of current evidence and attempt to indicate areas for future research.
Ethical Outcomes of the Position You Take
After you have defined the problem and created an argument
about how one ought to respond to the issue, you need to explain the
ethical outcomes of the position you have taken. This should again be in
relation to the field of study in which you are working. There might be
different ethical outcomes that result from your analysis. For example,
going back to the example issue above, from an economic standpoint,
illegal immigrants might contribute positively to the economy of
Northern Illinois in a specific number of ways. Thus, an economist who
believes that positive impact to the economy is the greatest good would
say that one should promote the use of illegal immigrants. However,
because these workers are often paid less than others and eliminate
jobs that could be done by residents of Chicago, there could be other
negative ethical outcomes that would outweigh the positive impacts to
the economy. It is your goal to draw out the ethical implications of
your thesis and explain the underlying rationale that is the foundation
for your claim that one action is better than another.
Critical thinkers are those who can outline the
positive and negative ethical impacts of their positions. In addition,
they are able to provide a rationale for why they believe a specific
position is the right position, even when it leads to negative outcomes.Critical thinkers are also able to be honest and objective about the limitations and gray areas that pertain to their theses.
Final Research Project Requirements
The Final Research Project may be presented as a formal
research paper (essay format), a PowerPoint presentation, a video, or a
podcast equivalent to a minimum of 10 pages in Help write my thesis – APA format
(approximately 3,300 – 3,900 typewritten words, excluding title page and
reference pages). Written essays must adhere to all Help write my thesis – APA formatting
standards and requirements, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
PowerPoint presentations must include the full text (at
least 3,300 words) in the speaker notes portion of the slides, with
appropriate citations, and full reference pages. PowerPoint
presentations must adhere to the basic principles of PowerPoint presentation design and must include citations and references according to Help write my thesis – APA standards and requirements.
Videos and podcasts must include a full transcript, in
Help write my thesis – APA format, including appropriate in-text citations and a references
page.
Quotations:
There must be no more than 15% quoted content in the body
of your essay. All quoted material must bear quotation marks and a full
quotation citation.
Source Documents:
There must be 10 or more source documents used, cited, and referenced.Multimedia sources (such as videos) may be used, but
no more than two such sources may be used. If multimedia sources are
used, then they must be authored and distributed by credible sources,
such as universities, law schools, medical schools, or professors, or
found in the Ashford University Library.Where print documents are used for source materials,
those must be peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles, and
academically published books. Popular media sources (e.g.,
newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows, etc.) may not be
used. Materials from advocacy groups (e.g., Greenpeace, Human Rights
Campaign, National Organization for Women, etc.) may not be used.Two of the peer-reviewed scholarly sources used must include statistical evidence, which must be accurately interpreted.Sites such as ProCon.org and Wikipedia should not be used.Religious texts are neither peer-reviewed nor scholarly and so may not be used in any way.
Summary Conclusion:
You must have a summary conclusion as the last paragraph(s) of the
project, presenting the major point of the essay and the evidence
supporting that point.
Word Count:
The content body of the project must be 3,300 words or
more. The word count does not include anything in the title page,
running header, or reference list. It is expected that you meet all
logistical requirements of this paper.
Reference List:
The list of references must include only those source documents that are cited within the body of the project. The project must fully comply with Help write my thesis – APA formatting standards and requirements as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center: title page, running header with page numbers, font face and size, line spacing, citations, and reference page(s).Second file wouldn’t load, so I will copy and paste…~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thesis
statement
Share your progress on the
Final Research Project, including the following:
Identify the Final Research
Project topic. What influenced you to make this choice?
Describe your rationale for
selecting that topic in relation to your academic and career
pursuits.
Provide your thesis statement.
Assignment help – Discuss interesting finds
and/or frustrations that you have encountered in your research.
Your initial post should be at
least 250 words in length.
Topic
The
topic of research is ‘the use of semantics and semiotics to improve
socialization among students’.
The
main influence on choosing this topic was basically the increased
focus that has been provided to the natural language as well as voice
research. Further, I also wanted to research more on the various
meanings that are conveyed through the common signs as well as
language and its use in the educational institutions.
Basically,
it has been a significant aspect to try and figure out the
development of language and its impact on human culture. With
increased diversity in all parts of the economy, I always figured
that understanding is crucial particularly in the educational
institutions since the cultural diversity is intensive here. These
aspects have a way of improving communication through developed
writers as well as speakers with the intent to persuade certain
audiences. Through understanding of the meaning behind a specific
word, contrary to the meaning that can be attained in an entire
passage, understanding of the intended message is enhanced and thus
socialization becomes a lot easier.
The
use of semantic and semiotics can improve socialization amongst
students from different and diverse cultures.
Through
the research process, I have encountered quite a number of
frustrations first being the fact that there is quite limited
information available on the topic. A lot of information in the
library and internet sources only defines the terms and their logic
but application is not provided on socialization. Nevertheless, I was
able to get diverse information that I could combine together and
argue my thesis statement. In addition, I was also able to encounter
various symbols and how they are applicable across various cultures.
