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Final Research Paper Assignment
For your paper you will investigate an aspect of your chosen career. You will make an argumentative and/or analytical statement and back that up with interdisciplinary research, which will grow from a research question. We will work in consultation to develop the research questions and statement.
Length: 7-10 pages, plus a Works Cited or Bibliography on a separate page not to be counted in the page count total
Sources: 7-10 credible sources from at least two different disciplines. At least four must be scholarly. Sources must be cited in the text and in a Works Cited using MLA or APA format.
As noted, this is a staged assignment, with different elements due at different times. Stages are listed above.
More about what you will be researching:
The paper will be an in depth exploration of some aspect of your profession based on your own interests. You will first find a “job” which will serve as an entry point in exploring the field. This is prep for your assignment, though the paper will not focus on that specific job but on the field or career related to it. Questions you might explore could include things like, how does a particular trend affect the way this field has evolved (for example, how has social media usage transformed the field of marketing), or if a particular insight or technique is effective in a field (for example, how can hands on exploration be used in classrooms to engage students). You might also consider ethical or social issues in your field (for example, does data farming for marketing violate privacy rights or how might increasing diversity in police forces affect relationships between law enforcement and the community). Your focus should reflect your interests.
Make sure you review the Final Research Paper Assignment before completing your draft so you can keep your final goals in mind.
Partial Draft:
Length: 2.5 – 3 pages
Sources: Should incorporate at least two of your sources
The submitted pages do not have to be from the beginning or in “order” (you can skip around although it makes sense to include a sentence like “insert paragraph about x here” so the reader can see you are skipping around).
Although the draft doesn’t have to be in order, you should have a focusing statement – and statement of your argument or conclusions. This would be generally the “answer” to your research question(s).
Also include a rough outline of where you plan to go for the rest of the paper. Format does not matter.
Please note, this paper will go through plagriarism detection software. An incident of academic dishonesty occurs during the draft stage this will be counted as an act of academic dishonestly on the paper as a whole.
Failure to complete the assignment could or follow the directions could result in a reduction of the grade on your final draft by up to 5 points.
