Research Paper Assignment
Identify a global societal issue from the following list:
Aging population
Critical Thinking Skills for the 21st Century
Gender Inequality
Global Climate Change
Global Water Shortage
Marginalization and Minorities
Refugee Crises
Children's Rights
Social Media Censorship
1. Identify the global societal issue you have chosen to research for your Paper, an argumentative essay, and explain why further research on this topic is important.
2. Provide a clear and concise thesis statement that includes a solution to the global societal issue (see Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for assistance).
3. Explain how this global societal issue impacts a specific population.
4. Locate a peer-reviewed scholarly source and provide statistical data that you found surprising on the topic.
1. Explain at least five differences between popular and scholarly sources used in research.
2. Locate and summarize one peer-reviewed, scholarly source and one popular source that pertain to your Final Paper topic. In your summary of each article, comment on the following: biases, reliability, strengths, and limitations.
3. From the sources you summarized, list and explain at least five visual cues from the peer-reviewed, scholarly source that were not evident in the popular source.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.