Prompt: LGBTQ+ access to health care services (thearapy, and sociological eval.) have been halted due to covid-19. How has their educational goals and paths changed due to this.
Please use the sources posted below (more can be used)
Steed, Heather, et al. “Schools Can Reduce Barriers to Mental Health Access by Ensuring That Services Are Supportive of LGBTQ Youth.” Child Trends, 21 Oct. 2021, https://www.childtrends.org/blog/schools-can-reduce-barriers-to-mental-health-access-by-ensuring-that-services-are-supportive-of-lgbtq-youth .
Brännlund, Annica, et al. “Mental-Health and Educational Achievement: The Link between Poor Mental-Health and Upper Secondary School Completion and Grades.” Journal of Mental Health, vol. 26, no. 4, Aug. 2017, pp. 318–325. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/09638237.2017.1294739.
Poteat, Paul V., et al. “Considerations for LGBTQ Children and Youth in the Era of COVID-19.” SRCD, Society for Research in Child Development, Sept. 2020, https://www.srcd.org/sites/default/files/resources/FINAL_AddressingInequalities-LGBTQ%2B.pdf
Paley, Amit. “The Trevor Project National Survey Results 2021.” The Trevor Project, 2021, https://www.thetrevorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/The-Trevor-Project-National-Survey-Results-2021.pdf.
THE ASSIGNMENT
Compose a unified, coherent, research-supported essay, a minimum of 1400 words long, focusing on the general topic of education in the age of Covid.
YOUR FOCUS
The subject of education is way too broad for a good essay. Way too many things to talk about. A thousand-page book couldn’t begin to cover all the many possible aspects, angles, and issues.
Combine education and COVID, and the topic narrows somewhat, but it’s still too broad and general. You’ve got to tighten your focus even more.
So you have a decision to make. What specific issue or angle do you want to investigate? The bulleted lists below are just a sampling, by no means complete, of topics you might choose to focus on.
You could focus on the impact that the pandemic has had on:
the educational progress of students;
the mental health of students (stress, anxiety, depression, etc.);
the social skills of students deprived of social interactions on campus;
international students, some of whom were stranded in this country, and many others in their home country, far from their US campuses, due to pandemic-related travel restrictions;
special-needs students cut off from special campus-based services;
student-athletes whose opportunities to train and compete in their chosen sports have been limited and even, in the early days of the pandemic, cancelled outright;
busy, unprepared parents forced to take leading roles in their children’s home-schooling.
You could also write about:
the controversy over campus shutdowns;
the controversy over vaccine mandates for students and/or employees (faculty and staff);
various schedules and plans for re-openings, either in the L.A. area, the state, or the nation;
possible permanent changes in education (positive and/or negative) as a result of the pandemic’s disruption of outmoded educational routines and rituals;
and speaking of changes in education, let’s not forget the dramatic (perhaps traumatic) transformation of American education from a personal, face-to-face meeting of the minds to an impersonal, disembodied, and isolating online adventure — or misadventure. You could easily write about the advantages and/or disadvantages of distance learning. This is a general topic that wouldn’t have to focus specifically on the pandemic. Just tell the reader that Covid happened, so online education happened — and then you can focus the paper entirely on online ed. This does not have to be a paper on Covid per se.
and speaking of online education, here’s another possible focus that transcends Covid: The move to distance education raises questions not only of educational quality but of something perhaps even more important — the issue of fair and equal access. This issue of the “Digital Divide” has its roots in a different sort of pandemic, a pandemic of inequality. Millions of disadvantaged students lack the high-speed wi-fi and advanced computer technology necessary to succeed in the challenging new world of online education.
Each of the above topics would make a perfectly fine focus for a brief research paper. Many other possible focuses exist. Your first task will be to do some preliminary research, and some preliminary thinking, in order to choose a specific topic to write about.
SOURCES (criteria established by the ECC English Department)
Students must research and cite from at least 4 academically acceptable sources.
At least one source must be from an ECC library database. (Here is the link to access the databases (Links to an external site.).)
At least one source must be from a credible website, appropriate for academic use.
The essay should not rely on any one source for most of the information; instead, it should use multiple sources and the student should synthesize the information found in them.
Students must document sources in MLA format, cite them in the body of the paper, and formulate a works cited page (which does not count towards the minimum page count).
NOTES
The research paper should present a thesis that is specific, manageable, and debatable. In other words, the thesis should offer a clear position, stand, or opinion that will be supported with research.
Students should analyze and prove the thesis, using examples and quotations from a variety of sources.
Students must use MLA Format for the document, including in-text citations and a Works Cited page.
Students must integrate quotations and/or paraphrases by introducing them with signal phrases (“So-and-So says,” “According to,” etc.) and following them with analysis or commentary.
Students must sustain thesis support and use effective transitions along with correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
The essay must be logically organized and focused.
The essay should be a minimum of 1400 words (excluding Works Cited).
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