Assignemnt: Draft of Research Poster
Description: The purpose of this assignment is to have you complete a draft of your research poster. How you organize your poster is up to you. Remember, your poster must contain the following:
• Introduce and identify your research question
• Describe your population of interest
• Look at your chosen issue from an interdisciplinary perspective by identifying at least 10 empirical, peer reviewed articles that represent at least three social science disciplines that speak to your population of choice. These articles need to: 1) Give you a pulse of the main issues facing your population and what the current state of the research is, 2) Lead you to think through potential policy implications for your group and 3) Help you examine the implications of this issue for society more broadly. You will need to compare and contrast the findings from the different disciplines. How do the findings align? How do they contrast? What insight does each discipline give to the specific issues of your chosen topic?
• Identify and discuss the specific provisions within selected laws and policies (e.g. ACA, Violence Against Women Act, Social Security Act) that apply to your chosen topic.
• Provide viable policy solutions based on your research. How could the social problem you selected be improved based on what you have learned from multiple social science disciplines?
What does my poster need to include?
Here are some guidelines to keep in mind when putting your poster together:
1. It should be visually appealing but this is not a decorating contest. Pay attention to colors and font. The poster is still formal. We do not use graphics on a formal poster.
2. Layout is critical. It should be organized and logical. Arrange so it can be read in a column. It can be hard to move across and then back to the next row.
3. Bullets can (but don't have to be) be used (as opposed to paragraphs) but there must be sufficient information included. Less is more but there must be information included.
4. If you include figures and tables, make sure they can be read at a distance.
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.