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– docx. file
– must be only 5 PEER-REVIEWED sources with citations.
– in-text citations necessary, with good paraphrasing, no copying, and pasting.
– if you can’t find a peer-reviewed source use https://libraries.uky.edu/ and search for keywords in the search bar. After clicking search, on the left side, put a check on “peer-reviewed journal”l and “open access”. You should be good then.
– As for the prompt:
In this paper, you will review and assess the previous research that scholars have conducted on a particular topic, problem, or question.
The following is a list of possible topics. You may also propose your own topic, but you must see me receive approval for a different topic.
The replication crisis in the sciences
“The Great Sorting”: the idea that people are increasingly choosing to live around other people with very similar demographics and levels of education, leading to a lack of interaction with people outside of their socioeconomic class
Screen time and its effects on the brain, mental health, etc.
The rise of remote work and its knock-on effects
The recent NCAA rule change that allows college athletes to monetize their name, image, and likeness
The criminal justice system, prisons, and ideas for reform
Controversies about the history curriculum in schools, especially K-12 schools
How should we deal with the next pandemic given the covid-19 experience?
The centralization of news media and the concurrent decline in local news media, especially local newspapers
The challenge of China in American foreign policy
Pets in modern American culture
How the rise of streaming services has changed our experience of consuming media
The increasing underrepresentation of men enrolled in college–its causes and effects
The overall decreasing birthrate in the United States–its causes and effects
Increasing specialization in various fields (medicine, engineering, humanities, etc.) and its effects
Differential rates of maternal mortality by race, age, etc.
Declining trust in institutions and/or declining trust in science, etc.
What have we learned about education during the pandemic? (remote learning, social learning, etc.)
Your task in this paper is to make a clear, concise, and compelling claim about the state of the research on your topic/problem/question. How have scholars approached this topic? What methods have they used to study it? What conclusions have they produced? How has the research changed over time? (You do not have to answer each one of these questions–these are just questions to get you started in analyzing the sources). You should not merely summarize the research; you need to make a claim about the research by synthesizing several peer-reviewed books, articles, and/or reports. Your claim should be clearly stated in the introduction of your paper. This claim will be your thesis for the paper, and you will support this thesis with specific evidence from peer-reviewed sources.
You must cite at least five peer-reviewed sources in your paper. For this assignment, you are restricted to peer-reviewed sources; please do not use newspaper and magazine articles and non-peer-reviewed websites.
You should cite every source that you use in MLA format.
