Final Paper: In addition to your written report on your survey findings, there will be a final research-based paper to be completed prior to the end of the course. This paper includes 3 separate stages/assignments:
• Assignment 1: First draft
• Assignment 2: Final paper
• Assignment 3: Final presentation
You are required to incorporate your survey findings into this paper; however, you must also include outside research. Online research is acceptable; however, any online references must be from legitimate sources (Wikipedia is NOT a legitimate source). You must use a variety of sources such as books, journals, publications, interviews, etc. and your paper must reflect thorough research and college-level writing.
This assignment should provide a good overview of the issue and your recommendations for Colorado as a whole and/or Pueblo (or another city) specifically. The recommendation part of your paper should resemble a proposal for action and give specifics regarding how you feel the issue can best be addressed.
Your paper should be “as long as it needs to be,” but a good guideline would be a minimum of 10-15 pages in length. This paper is slightly different than your average research paper, so please make sure to read the below guidelines and requirements:
• At the minimum, your paper must have: an introduction; literature review section; survey findings; the main body, which includes your detailed recommendations/proposal for action; methodology on how you will determine if your plan is successful; further discussion and conclusion; and reference page/bibliography.
• The introduction should include what specific issue(s) you will be addressing; the nature and scope of the problem you are researching; a summary of what literature (if any) has already been written on the subject; how you will investigate the problem and more importantly how you will investigate and determine potential solution(s); and the hypothesized results of implementation of your proposed solution. Your introduction should be approximately 2 pages long and must clearly outline what the problem is and include a statement on what your solution will be. Details will go in other parts of the paper, but I should know exactly what I’m about to read, solely based on your introduction.
• The literature review section should document other literature written about the subject and potential solutions. This is a challenging topic to research, but if you try hard enough you can find information out there. Check the local libraries for books on the subject! If you truly believe you have exhausted
all avenues of research, talk to me (well in advance of deadlines) and thoroughly document your research attempts in this section.
• Your survey findings should be a minimum of 3-5 pages and include visuals, such as graphs or charts. I should be able to get a good understanding of what the responses were, based solely off of this portion of your paper (i.e. 45% of respondents believed that human trafficking is not a problem in Pueblo; 17% of respondents said…, etc.).
• The main body of your paper is where you will include your detailed recommendations for addressing the problem. This paper is to be solution oriented; therefore, this section should be highly detailed! We’ve stated there’s a problem, now what is the solution? You don’t have to be sure it will work, you just have to present the idea and why you think it will work, along with details on how you would ensure it is implemented. Don’t just say “I think we should conduct trainings to increase awareness.” and then think that’s enough, it isn’t! In using training as an example, talk about what would go into the trainings; who would you train; who would conduct the trainings; where would you get funding; what would the setting be; how would you ensure reliability and accuracy of the trainings; how would you structure the trainings to connect with your audience; how would you ensure training information stays up-to-date; how would you get people to attend the trainings; how would the trainings help fix the problem; how many people would you hope to train and in what timeframe. The list goes on and on. I sincerely hope you are more creative in your solution, rather than “training is the solution” and I expect to see creative and innovative ideas. This section should be a minimum of 5-7 pages (a really good solution section would be a minimum of 7-10 pages) long.
• The methodology on how you will determine if your plan is successful should include: how you will collect data; will the data be qualitative, quantitative, or both; what type of data will you collect; how will you use that data to determine if your solution is effective; how will you implement “course corrections” if your solution isn’t working; what will you do to stay current and relevant in your solution; and anything else you feel is relevant. This section can be combined into your main body, but must clearly address the methodology. The methodology section should be a minimum of 2-3 pages long.
• The conclusion section contains what has been covered in the paper and final arguments for your solution. Make this a strong closing argument, people should get fired up for action and ready to jump in and help based on what you say. Think of trying to convince your friends or family to join you in fighting human trafficking, using your solution, what would you say to get them on board? Make it powerful (and professional, no slang or foul language)! This section should be a minimum of 1-2 pages long.
• You must include proper in-text citations and a references section. Failure to include these can result in receiving an “F” for your paper.
For those of you adding things up, the above means that if you did the absolute minimum for each section, you’d be at 12 pages (plus your literature review section, which will vary in length depending on your topic and what you find).
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