SOCIAL PROBLEM STATEMENT ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT

SOCIAL PROBLEM STATEMENT ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT (25 points)

Look in academic literature (LSU Libraries) as well as governmental and policy websites

for information about a problem you are interested in learning more about.

Make sure you are:

Using voice narration

Being creative

Not overpowering the slides with words (put key points on the slide and speak

about the rest).

Not going over 8 slides

Not using Wikipedia

TITLE (1 slide)

-Introduce yourself

-Give your assignment a title (don’t simply use, Social Problem Statement Analysis)

PROBLEM STATEMENT (1-2 slides)

-This should be a succinct argument that can convince policy makers and the voting

public that should care about this issue.

-Define the problem

-Present descriptive statistics regarding problem prevalence

-Present information about the costs of the problem to society

PROBLEM CAUSES (CORRELATES) (1-2 slides)

-Briefly and succinctly summarize psychological, personal, familial, community, and/or

societal factors that cause, contribute to or correlate with the problem.

IDENTIFY POLICIES THAT ADDRESS THE PROBLEM (1-2 slides)

-Identify and report on one or more federal- or state-level policies that address the

problem.

REFERENCES

-Should be in APA format

-Should have at least 3-5 scholarly article references (use LSU Library)

Description Points

Covered all points of assignment:

• Voice narration

• Has title, problem statement, problem causes, policies that address problem, and references

• Does not go over 8 slides

15

Creative and clean slides with minimal grammatical errors 5

References are 3-5 scholarly articles and in APA format

(Citing information that is not your own in the slides)

5