What laws govern or pertain to the issue? What ethical obstacles affect how the medical community addresses the issue? How do ethical theories apply to the issue?

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Poverty in Healthcare

Compose a focused paper that explains and describes your healthcare issue or topic from a cultural and ethical perspective of inquiry. (You will cover two perspectives in one paper.)

Form and answer two levels of research questions for each inquiry to address your chosen topic.

  • Choose a “Level 1 Research Question/Writing Prompt” from both of the lists below to answer in the paper.
  • Compose a “Level 2 Research Question/Writing Prompt” for each kind of inquiry that provides detail, specificity, and focus to your inquiry, research, and writing.
  • State your research questions in your paper’s introduction.
  • Form the body of your paper by answering each research question and support your assertions with evidence (research).
  • In the conclusion of the paper, briefly review the issues, research questions, answers, and insights.
Level 1 Research Questions/Writing Prompts
ETHICAL Perspective of Inquiry

  • What laws govern or pertain to the issue?
  • What ethical obstacles affect how the medical community addresses the issue?
  • How do ethical theories apply to the issue?
  • How do money, power, and control matters relate to the issue and its treatment?
Level 1 Research Questions/Writing Prompts
CULTURAL Perspective of Inquiry

  • Which cultural values and/or norms influence the issue?
  • How is the issue addressed differently in varying cultural contexts and situations?
  • Which cultures or societies are most affected by the issue? Why?
  • Which cultural traditions affect the treatment(s)?

Your paper must be five pages in length and reference four to six scholarly, peer-reviewed resources. Be sure to follow current APA Style (e.g., spacing, font, headers, titles, abstracts, page numbering).

You’ve been working on this throughout the course and may need to slightly tweak earlier iterations of it based on instruction feedback. Identify your audience. Is this for a general audience? Or experts in the field? Or people with some established knowledge on the topic already?

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Final Research Guide

Introduce your topic and state your research question. You’ve been working on this throughout the course and may need to slightly tweak earlier iterations of it based on instruction feedback. Identify your audience. Is this for a general audience? Or experts in the field? Or people with some established knowledge on the topic already? This part should be a single paragraph.

Identify 4 sources that help frame and shape your understanding of the topic and address how you plan to answer the research question. State what category (background, exhibit, argument, or method) each source matches. Refer back to the BEAM frameworkLinks to an external site. if you are uncertain. Cite your sources according to APA or a style of your choosing.

  • 1 Background source
  • 1 Exhibit source
  • 1 Argument source
  • 1 Method source

Write a brief description for each of the four sources. In the description include:

  • A summary of the article, resource or webpage;
  • A summary of the source (journal, newspaper or website) and why it is reputable for this topic.
  • Evaluate the source paying particular attention to the qualities below. Refer back to Ch 6: Evaluating SourcesLinks to an external site. for more. This section is the most important.

Note that you not doing any writing to reach a conclusion about your question; the emphasis here is on forming your question and identifying and evaluating sources that you could use to address it in a full research project.

Identify 4 sources that help frame and shape your understanding of the topic and address how you plan to answer the research question. State what category (background, exhibit, argument, or method) each source matches.

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Question to Position

For this assignment, you will begin to assemble a variety of sources that fit with your research topic proposal. We will use the BEAM Framework found in Ch. 13Links to an external site. Refer to the BEAM Reference Chart Links to an external site to help identify the types of sources and ideas for where to find specific sources to match your discipline.

Nuts and bolts

  • State your research question from your Research Topic Proposal. You may need to slightly alter what you originally submitted depending on instructor feedback.
  • Move your research question to the next stage by writing a thesis statement. Your thesis should directly flow from your research question. You are making a claim that you will support with evidence. Others may be able to counter you claim, so you are not necessarily establishing a fact but arguing for a specific position. It will be necessary for you to begin to collect evidence prior to finalizing your thesis statement; it should be a single sentence. See UNC’s Writing Center page on Thesis Statements Links to an external site. for more information.
  • Identify 4 sources that help frame and shape your understanding of the topic and address how you plan to answer the research question. State what category (background, exhibit, argument, or method) each source matches.
    • 1 Background source
    • 1 Exhibit source
    • 1 Argument source
    • 1 Method source
  • Reach a conclusion arguing for your position referencing all four sources. Be sure to take opposing sides seriously. (This should be approximately 1 page long).
  • Your final paper will be approximately 500 words in length.
  • Cite each source according to the APA Style 7th edition or another style of your choosing.

What topic, problem, or issue are you interested in? What specific part of the topic are you interested in? List a few possible questions about your specific topic area. What? Who? When? Where? Why? How?

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Research Topic Proposal

Research Question Worksheet

1.      What topic, problem, or issue are you interested in? Do some background research to find out more about it. 2.      What specific part of the topic are you interested in? Break down topic ideas to categories. 3.      List a few possible questions about your specific topic area. What? Who? When? Where? Why? How?
4.      Choose one to be your main research question. How or why questions are best. Why or How questions are best.

 

 5      Make you question as clear and specific as possible. Specify, who, what, where, when you are focusing on. 6.      State your working thesis. The working thesis should summarize the answer to your main research question, and will likely change after you do some research.

 

 

Write a short response (about 100 words) that either discusses how you have encountered filter bubbles in the past OR how you plan to navigate an information ecosystem that is seemingly designed to prevent you from seeing the full picture.

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Filter Bubbles

You already reflected on your own habits and practices of seeking out information. This week you watched Eli Pariser’s TED Talk “Beware Online ‘Filter Bubbles.'” (Links to an external site.) The main challenge is that filter bubbles prove why we are right and demonstrate why the other side is clearly wrong (many of you wrote about this idea in the discussion of Lil B’s The Age of Information. In this discussion, write a short response (about 100 words) that either discusses how you have encountered filter bubbles in the past OR how you plan to navigate an information ecosystem that is seemingly designed to prevent you from seeing the full picture. Respond to one other student.

Create a 4-week training program using the knowledge you currently have, and the resources provided to you in Canvas.

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Workout Training

Create a 4-week training program using the knowledge you currently have, and the resources provided to you in Canvas. There are no restrictions to how the workout program should be designed.

Write a 2-3 page paper comparing and contrasting the federal governments of the United States and the country that you chose (Mexico).

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Federalism: Mexico

Write a 2-3 page paper comparing and contrasting the federal governments of the United States and the country that you chose (Mexico). You may explore issues such as:

Federalism Examples

  • Admit new states
  • Conduct elections
  • Declare and engage in war
  • Determine the qualifications of voters
  • Establish and maintain schools
  • Govern marriage laws
  • Levy and collect taxes
  • Maintain an army, navy, and air force
  • Maintain the state militia (also known as the National Guard)
  • Negotiate treaties with foreign countries
  • Print and coin money
  • Protect public health
  • Protect the rights of citizens
  • Provide for public safety
  • Punish lawbreakers
  • Regulate interstate and foreign commerce
  • Regulate intrastate commerce
  • Set rules for immigration
  • Set traffic standards
  • Set up a post office

Analyze the differences between inline and in-person counseling and therapy through research about the efficacy of online therapy during the transition away from in person therapy during COVID-19.

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Differences between online and in-person counseling and therapy

Analyze the differences between inline and in-person counseling and therapy through research about the efficacy of online therapy during the transition away from in person therapy during COVID-19. Your paper must be based on a minimum of ten recent scientific references (since 2012).

  • Write a 6 to 8-page (1500-2000 words) research paper on one of the topics below.

How can mobile app be used for early detection and intervention of cerebral palsy in neonatal high risk pregnancies?

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

How can mobile app be used for early detection and intervention of cerebral palsy in neonatal high risk pregnancies? The aim of this project is to be able to use mobile app clustering in identifying pregnant women with high risks of birthing a cerebral palsy child. CP is diagnosed when a child cannot do certain motor activities and the time taken to identify this condition is when the child is 1.5 – 2years. With the early detection app during pregnancy, CP can be identified on time before the child is born and early intervention can begin.

 

Describe one limitation that you perceived when you read the paper. Was this limitation addressed in the Discussion? In your own words, explain the major contribution of the article to the field of ecology.

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How to read a scientific article

Answer sheet for Assignment 1: How to read a scientific article

Article citation:

1. Where was this research paper published (journal name)?

2. Summarize this paper’s key finding, as described in the abstract (one sentence).

3. Describe one research question from this paper (1 sentence).

4. Describe one hypothesis from this paper (1 sentence).

5. Describe one prediction from this paper (1 sentence).

6. List three words or phrases that were unfamiliar to you when you first read the paper. For each, look up a definition and provide the definitions below (1 sentence each).
(a)
(b)
(c)

7. (a) How many tables are in the paper? _____
(b) How many figures are in the paper? _____
(c) Were the tables/figures helpful to understand the main results? Why or why not?

8. Describe one limitation that you perceived when you read the paper (two sentences). Was this limitation addressed in the Discussion?

9. In your own words, explain the major contribution of the article to the field of ecology (up to 3 sentences)

10. How many other published papers did this research paper cite?