Assignment: Researched Argument Essay
Purpose: The purpose of the Researched Argument Essay is to synthesize your viewpoints with the information you have discovered in the research process for the Annotated Bibliography and the Oral Presentation. Need Assignment Help?
Assignment: To complete your Researched Argument Essay:
1. Review the feedback that you received on your planning document and your Body Paragraph Draft.
2. Use your completed planning document, your completed Body Paragraph Draft, and the feedback you received to write a 750 to 1000 word Researched Argument Essay focused on your chosen controversial topic in which you support your claim with analysis and synthesis of the 3 sources selected for your Annotated Bibliography.
3. As you integrate and cite the sources, follow MLA style guidelines to create in-text citations and the corresponding works cited page.
4. Consider using the following resources for additional support prior to submitting your final draft:
a. IRSC Library MLA Style Review
b. IRSC Academic Support Center
5. Submit Researched Argument Essay.
Grading: This assignment will be graded based on the
- Originality and thoughtfulness of the thesis statement and topic sentences.
- Effective integration of source information.
- Logical development and progression of an argument.
- Adherence to MLA formatting and citation guidelines.
- Professional presentation of content with respect to spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
The Researched Argument Essay requires students to:
- Evaluate information from multiple sources.
- Develop an arguable thesis statement that presents a claim.
- Support the claim with evidence from scholarly resources found in IRSC Libraries' databases.
- Draft original, organized work, act on productive feedback, revise, and edit.
- Adapt communication for tone, purpose, audience, and situation.
- Use essential Standard American English conventions-including appropriate sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation-and formal, academic composition style.
- Use MLA style for document format and source citation.
Stephanie Morris
Professor Smith
ENC 1101
3 June 2026
Disparities in Healthcare
Even though technology and scope of practices have advanced during this time, multiple factors including but not limited to race can contribute to the type of care being provided and offered which has a negative impact on the healthcare system practices and models.
Annotated Bibliography:
"Health Care Disparities." Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2022. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Upon reading this article we dive into the topic of "Healthcare Disparities. Health care disparities have been going on for some time now, documented as early as the 1920's. Unfortunately, this is a common cause for healthcare system models mortality and morbidity rates in the United States. Researchers have found that healthcare mortality and healthcare outcomes differ based on race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender and immigration status are just some of the few things mentioned. In this study they found that race has played a huge role in healthcare disparities. Reports found that, in a Tuskegee Syphilis study between 1932-1972, the government used a group of poor African American sharecroppers as test subjects for studying the natural progression of untreated syphilis without their knowledge or consent. The agency conducting the study lied to participants and did not give them any treatment, purposefully providing placebos even after penicillin became an available treatment. To track the progression of the disease, researchers provided no effective care, allowing hundreds of participants to develop syphilis related complications, including blindness and insanity, and die. This abuse is attributed to the distrust and fear of healthcare workers and institutions for minorities. there are also differences in health and health care based on Gender, income level, race, ethnicity, and disability. Racial health care disparities also happen in maternal and infant mortality rates. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were 40.8 pregnancy-related deaths per 100,000 live births among Black women between 2007 and 2016. During this same period, there were 12.7 pregnancy related deaths per 100,000 live births among white women. The CDC further reported that Black infants died at more than twice the rate of white infants in 2018. I will you this in my research paper to show the emphasis on treatment to African Americans and how they were exposed to a disease unknowing and treated unfairly for the advantage of someone else.
Guo, Jingchuan, et al. "Income disparities in driving distance to health care infrastructure in the United States: a geographic information systems analysis." BMC Research Notes, vol. 15, no. 1, 27 June 2022. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints.
Healthcare Disparities are not just affected by race; it is also affected by socioeconomic status. In this article, research was conducted to analyze how many healthcare facilities were structured in proximity of lower income neighborhoods. It also compared the distance of healthcare facilities to higher income neighborhoods. This study showed that in 954 counties (207 metropolitan counties and 747 nonmetropolitan counties) representing over 14% of the US population, low-income residents have poorer access to health care facilities. This study showed that having a lower income does affect the healthcare that someone receives. Without having access to transportation, this can make it harder for one to access healthcare facilities. I will also use this article and structure in my paper to how different aspects of Healthcare disparities affect monitories and low-income families.
Gee, Gilbert C., and Devon C. Payne-Sturges. "Environmental health disparities: a framework integrating psychosocial and environmental concepts." Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 112, no. 17, Dec. 2004, pp. 1645+. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints.
There has also been research conducted on environmental effects of health. This has contributed to multiple factors. Studies have shown where the actual breakdown may stem from. In this article, the author spoke about the environmental disadvantages that lower income residences were more prone to toxic living environments. They found that disadvantaged neighborhoods are also exposed to greater health hazards, including tobacco and alcohol advertisements, toxic waste incinerators, and air pollution (Morello-Frosch et al. 2002). We hear on numerous occasions of the type of things that happen when care is being provided to different socioeconomic statuses and race. I will use to article to support the aspects of environmental disparities in healthcare and how it is manipulated to be done. I will also include other related articles which will also support this finding. This will support my research that race does play a crucial role in the healthcare model system. It is one of the biggest disparities affecting the outcomes of healthcare.
Stephanie Morris
Timothy Smith
ENC 1101
11 September 2026
Thesis statement: Even though technology and scope of practices have advanced during this time, multiple factors including but not limited to race can contribute to the type of care being provided and offered which has a negative impact on the healthcare system practices and models.
Disparities In Healthcare:
Healthcare mortality and healthcare outcomes differ based on race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender and immigration status are just some of the few things mentioned. "Black Americans were nearly three times more likely to die from asthma than white non-Hispanic Americans, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services" (Gale). For example, there was a Tuskegee Syphilis study between 1932-1972, the government used a group of poor African American sharecroppers as test subjects for studying the natural progression of untreated syphilis without their knowledge or consent. The agency conducting the study lied to participants and did not give them any treatment, purposefully providing placebos even after penicillin became an available treatment. To track the progression of the disease, researchers provided no effective care, allowing hundreds of participants to develop syphilis related complications, including blindness and insanity, and die.
This is just one of many instances where race has played a major role in the effects of the healthcare system and models."Historical abuses and ongoing discrimination drive health disparities because they foster distrust and even fear" (Gale). This abuse is attributed to the distrust and fear of healthcare workers and institutions for minorities. We hear on numerous occasions of the type of things that happen when care is being provided to different socioeconomic statuses and race. There has been much talk about delays of care for people of color over many years. This form of discrimination needs to be rectified due to the negative outcome scores of the healthcare system. These types of disparities give us a clear understanding of how the different care being provided affects the mortality rate of the healthcare system in the United States.
Works Cited:
"Health Care Disparities." Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2022. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Guo, Jingchuan, et al. "Income disparities in driving distance to health care infrastructure in the United States: a geographic information systems analysis." BMC Research Notes, vol. 15, no. 1, 27 June 2022. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Payne-Sturges, Devon C., et al. "Confronting Racism in Environmental Health Sciences: Moving the Science Forward for Eliminating Racial Inequities." Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 129, no. 5, May 2021, p. 55002. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints.