Social issues

Social Issues Paper: 25%

You will write a Social Issues Paper for this class and develop the paper over the course of the semester. (Taken from The Sociology Students Writing Manual 6ed, (Johnson, Rettig, Scott & Garrison, 2010).

The purpose of this issue reaction paper is to develop and sharpen your critical thinking and writing skills. Your objective in writing this type of paper is to define an issue clearly and to formulate and clarify your position on that issue by reacting to a controversial statement. Minimum 5 sources – academic peer reviewed. Please use APA formatting.

You have six tasks to address in order to complete the assignment.

1. Select a suitable reaction statement.

2. Explain your selection

3. Clearly define the issue addressed in the statement

4. Clearly state your position on the statement

5. Defend your position

6. Conclude concisely

Step One – complete tasks 1-3 and get teachers approval - 1 page (5 points)

Step Two – Produce an outline of your paper - 1 page (5 points)

Step Three – Completed paper - 5-6 pages including the title page (15 points)

The topic I chose is school violence and my view is minors should be guided correctly and not punished severely. (Please use this topic)

This is my first paragraph:

In recent years, with the continuous deepening of social transformation, social problems have become more and more prominent, especially campus problems have emerged one after another. Among them, the phenomenon of youth campus violence is increasing, which has aroused social attention and thinking. Therefore, whether to increase penalties for minors who commit school violence has become a controversial topic. I think that minors should be guided correctly and not punished severely.