TOPIC: Why should high school students be required to take a Mental Health course prior to graduating?
***Attached is a annotated bibliography, however feel free to use more references give or take.
Global Issues Report Guidelines
You will compose a written report that discusses a community issue within the context of a larger, global issue. Using four scholarly/credible sources, you will organize and present the information for your Global Issues Report in a cohesive, coherent, and logical manner. Your report should explain the community and global issues extensively, argue for raised awareness about the issue, and provide your audience with the tools they need to act.
Key Elements Checklist:
Your global issue report should
✓ be 4-5 pages in length
✓ include a clear conclusion with a call to action
✓ adhere to APA style format and citations
✓ employ correct grammar, punctuation, and voice
✓ include an appropriate visual
Assignment Learning Objectives:
✓ develop subject-matter knowledge through a variety of research methods
✓ recognize the rhetorical situation in regard to the report genre
✓ identify connections between community issues and global issues
✓ synthesize multiple sources into a coherent whole
The report genre is a tool that serves many uses in academic, professional, and civic contexts. A defining characteristic of a report is that it communicates information about a topic that most people may not be aware of. As you continue with your work for this course, you will notice that much of your research has had a focus on engagement with and awareness of community issues; but have you considered how these community issues often connect with larger, global issues?
Reports written about issues affecting people around the world typically share characteristics such as in-depth research, specific details, and formal language and voice. Despite these constraints, these reports are often easy to understand because the language used is accessible to a wide audience. Reports present a challenge to even the most experienced writers: how do you communicate the importance of an issue when your audience likely knows very little about the complexities surrounding it? To deal with these challenges, reports often incorporate visuals, in the form of charts, graphs, maps, or photographs, to present complex information in multiple formats.
Ultimately, the purpose of this report is to raise awareness about an issue and make a call to action to garner a response from the audience. As you write your own Global Issues Report, consider how your audience will receive the information you provide, and refer them to websites or organizations they can connect with to take action.
Purpose. This assignment prompts you to connect and discuss the relationship between community issues and larger, global issues by synthesizing multiple sources into an organized, coherent, written report.
Audience. Direct this assignment to a scholarly or public audience that may only have a casual familiarity with your topic or issue. You can also envision an audience that is more specifically connected to the subject of your research, such as a community stakeholder in position to take action based on your research.
Layout:
Introduction. Your introduction should include an effective use of pathos to draw your audience’s attention. In many reports written about global issues, writers include an anecdote or profile of a person affected by the issue. Your introduction should also provide an overview of the issue you discuss. You should clearly communicate what the issue is, the communities affected, and why the audience should be aware of the issue. Finally, your introduction should include a clear thesis statement. You should not discuss your opinion about the topic, but you should argue that the issue is significant and requires the audience’s awareness and action.
Body paragraphs and sections. Organization is an important aspect of this assignment. You must effectively incorporate multiple sources into a coherent whole. It is strongly suggested that you organize your report into sections. In these sections, you’ll provide an in-depth look into the issue by examining the issue’s background and history, communicating how serious the issue is using relevant facts and statistics, and explaining how the community issue connects to the global issue. Ethos will be evident in the credibility of the sources you cite and how you incorporate them. You will use the research you gathered in your Annotated Bibliography for this report. While the structure of your report will largely rely on your sense of logos, your audience’s expectations and sense of logos also informs it. An awareness of the report genre and an understanding of argumentative structures typical in reports is key.
Visuals. Somewhere in the body of your report, you’ll include one visual. These visuals must communicate some aspect of your report that may need to be understood in a different context. When a visual is used effectively, it provides a clearer understanding and deepens the audience’s knowledge of the issue. Types of visuals include the following: graphs, charts, icons, infographics, photographs, or illustrations. Remember to provide a caption for your visual, too.
Conclusion. Your conclusion should make the final connections between the community issue and the global issue clearer to the audience by emphasizing how important and serious the issue is. You should also include your call to action in your conclusion. Effective calls to action provide the audience with specific tools they may need in order to take action. You may provide your audience with access to other resources, such as organizations or trusted agencies where they may continue to inform themselves about the issue or become engaged and involved.
Reference page. Use the research you gathered for your Annotated Bibliography for this report. Remember to remove the annotations from your citations before you add them to your report’s works cited page.
Constraints. Although they employ accessible language, reports are formal, informative, academic documents. Maintain an academic voice and write in the third-person point of view. Your report is a professional document that provides information about a community and global issue and ends with a call to action.
Do Don’t
Be objective. Look for research that supports different perspectives on your topic.
Emphasize your opinion on the issue.
Use high-quality sources to detail the community problem.
TOPIC: Why should high school students be required to take a Mental Health course prior to graduating?
***Attached is the annotated bibliography, however feel free to use more references give or take.
