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Discussion 1

Reflecting on General Education and Career [WLOs: 2, 3, 4] [CLOs: 2, 3, 4]

Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read the articles  Teaching Writing Skills That Enhance Student Success in Future Employment  (Links to an external site.)  ;  An Inner Barrier to Career Development: Preconditions of the Impostor Phenomenon and Consequences for Career Development  (Links to an external site.) ; and  9 Questions That’ll Help You Find Your Dream Career  (Links to an external site.) ; watch the video  Business, Management & Administration  (Links to an external site.) ; and review the General Education Curriculum found in  General Academic Information and Policies  (Links to an external site.)  in the University of Arizona Global Campus Catalog. This catalog addresses the core competencies that the general education courses must cover: Ethical Reasoning, Written Communication, Oral and Interpersonal Communication, Information Literacy, Critical Thinking, and Quantitative Reasoning. 

Reflect: Think about the core competencies as previously mentioned, and ponder your time taking general education courses. Reflect on the specific courses not associated with your college major and determine the level of new information you have acquired that relates to the core competencies. You must also think about a potential job you might apply to once you graduate and determine what skills you developed through general education courses that make you qualified for a specific job.

Write: For this discussion, you will address the following prompts:

· Review a job description through a job website (e.g.,  Career Builder  (Links to an external site.) ,  Monster  (Links to an external site.) , etc.) in your desired career field. Please provide the job title and the link to the job description.

· Identify at least five skills you have obtained through your general education courses that will make you successful at this job.

· Demonstrate with at least two examples how your newly acquired knowledge and skills have shaped both your personal and professional development.

· Describe your plans for putting your education to use within your community.

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length, which should include a thorough response to each prompt. You are required to provide in-text citations of applicable required reading materials and/or any other outside sources you use to support your claims. Provide full reference entries of all sources cited at the end of your response. Please use correct APA format when writing in-text citations (see  In-Text Citation Helper  (Links to an external site.) ) and references (see  Formatting Your References List  (Links to an external site.) ).

Assignment 1

Global Societal Problem, Argument and Solution

[WLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please review this  Sample Final Paper GEN499   Download Sample Final Paper GEN499for additional guidance on the expectations of this assignment.

The topic of your essay needs to be a global societal problem from the following list:

· Climate change

· Pollution

· Religious conflict and violence

· Rise of artificial intelligence

· Lack of education

· Unemployment and lack of economic opportunity

· Government accountability and corruption

· Food and water security

· International drug trafficking

· Poverty and income inequality

Reflect: Based on the topic that you have chosen, you will need to use critical thinking skills to thoroughly understand how this topic can be a global societal problem and determine some logical solutions to the problem.

Write: This Final Paper, an argumentative essay, will present research relating the critical thinker to the modern, globalized world. In this assignment, you need to address the items below in separate sections with new headings for each.

In your paper,

· Identify the global societal problem within the introductory paragraph.

· Conclude with a thesis statement that states your proposed solutions to the problem. (For guidance on how to construct a good introduction paragraph, please review the  Introductions & Conclusions  (Links to an external site.)  from the  University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center  (Links to an external site.) .)

· Describe background information on how that problem developed or came into existence.

· Show why this is a societal problem.

· Provide perspectives from multiple disciplines or populations so that you fully represent what different parts of society have to say about this issue.

· Construct an argument supporting your proposed solutions, considering multiple disciplines or populations so that your solution shows that multiple parts of society will benefit from this solution.

· Provide evidence from multiple scholarly sources as evidence that your proposed solution is viable.

· Interpret statistical data from at least three peer-reviewed scholarly sources within your argument.

· Discuss the validity, reliability, and any biases.

· Identify the strengths and weaknesses of these sources, pointing out limitations of current research and attempting to indicate areas for future research. (You may even use visual representations such as graphs or charts to explain statistics from sources.)

· Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from your solution.

· Provide at least one positive ethical outcome as well as at least one negative ethical outcome that could result from your solution.

· Explain at least two ethical issues related to each of those outcomes. (It is important to consider all of society.)

· Develop a conclusion for the last paragraphs of the essay, starting with rephrasing your thesis statement and then presenting the major points of the topic and how they support your argument. (For guidance on how to write a good conclusion paragraph, please review the  Introductions & Conclusions  (Links to an external site.)  from the  University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center  (Links to an external site.) .)

 

The Global Societal Problem, Argument, and Solution Paper

· Must be 1,750 to 2,250 words in length (approximately between seven and nine pages; not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style, as outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center’s  APA Style  (Links to an external site.)  resource.

· Must include a separate title page with the following:

· Title of paper

· Student’s name

· Course name and number

· Instructor’s name

· Date submitted

· For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to  APA Formatting for Word 2013  (Links to an external site.) .

· Must utilize academic voice. See the  Academic Voice  (Links to an external site.)  resource for additional guidance.

· Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.

· For assistance on writing  Introductions & Conclusions  (Links to an external site.)  as well as  Writing a Thesis Statement  (Links to an external site.) , refer to the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center resources.

· Must use at least eight scholarly sources.

· Source Document Requirements:

· Multimedia sources (such as videos) may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. If multimedia sources are used, they must be authored and distributed by credible sources, such as universities, law schools, medical schools, or professors, or found in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library.

· Government sources may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. Examples include whitehouse.gov, state.gov, usa.gov, cdc.gov, and so forth. These websites can be used to make a stronger point about your proposed solution within the argument.

· Where documents are used for source materials, those must be peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles, and academically published books. Popular media sources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows, etc.) must not be used. Materials from advocacy groups (e.g., Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, National Organization for Women, etc.) must not be used.

· Sites such as ProCon.org and Wikipedia must not be used.

· Religious texts must not be used.

· The  Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources  (Links to an external site.)  table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for an assignment. The  Integrating Research (Links to an external site.)  tutorial will offer further assistance with including supporting information and reasoning.

· Must document in APA style any information used from sources, as outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center’s  Citing Within Your Paper  (Links to an external site.) .

· Must have no more than 15% quoted material in the body of your essay based on the Turnitin report. References list will be excluded from the Turnitin originality score.

· Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style. See the  Formatting Your References List  (Links to an external site.)  resource in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center for specifications.

Good Critical Thinking Tips:

· Your paper should include academic sources that explain multiple sides of the issue.

· Your interpretations of the evidence should be objective and state the conclusions and theses presented in the evidence clearly and fairly.

· Your paper should place the various forms of evidence in relation to one another and demonstrate why one form or perspective is stronger than the other positions that one could take on the issue.

· Your paper should point out the limitations of current evidence and attempt to indicate areas for future research.

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