GEN 499 General Education Capstone Wk1-D1

Write: For this discussion, address the following prompts:

• Identify a global societal issue from the following list that you  would consider researching further for your Week 5 Final Paper: 
  • Aging population
  • Critical Thinking Skills for the 21st Century
  • Gender Inequality
  • Global Climate Change
  • Global Water Shortage
  • Marginalization and Minorities
  • Refugee Crises
  • Children’s Rights
  • Social Media Censorship
• Describe effective methods you used in identifying and narrowing  down to just one of the topics to further research for your Final Paper.
• Explain three ways you can critically analyze sources to determine if they are scholarly.
• Summarize information from at least two scholarly journal articles  from the Ashford University Library that will support your claims for  your chosen topic.
• Explain why scholarly sources should be used to support your writing on the selected topic.
• Download and attach a PDF copy of one of the peer-reviewed scholarly  articles that you found from the Ashford University Library to your  answer using the “Attach” function located below your response.

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.)Links to an external site.) and references (see Formatting Your References List