Final week assignment

Global Societal Problem, Argument and Solution

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.

o 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.

o Show why this is a societal problem.

o 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.

o 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.

o Discuss the validity, reliability, and any biases.

o 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.

o Provide at least one positive ethical outcome as well as at least one negative

ethical outcome that could result from your solution.

o 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:

o Title of paper

o Student’s name

o Course name and number

o Instructor’s name

o 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.

o 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.

o 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.

o 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.

o 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.).

o 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.

o 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.