Clean Safe Drinking Water Global Issue Research Essay

The selected social/world issue as a focus for your project is clean drinking water.

The project consists of 2 different parts:

• Reflection Journals (x2) 
• Thesis Essay 

Thesis Essay

You will find 3 texts (one academic journal article, one documentary or podcast and one long-form piece of journalism) that address your issue in some way.  Long form journalism is not the same as a news story.  Long form pieces are typically between 1000 and 20000 words in length and typically combine factual reporting with a narrative style. 

Journal 1

Your journal reflection should focus on your thoughts about how your article relates to the thesis statement you’ve constructed for your ISU project, but also your general ISU topic as a whole as well.

Questions that will help guide the writing of your reflection are listed below. Your journal does not have to touch on all these questions, but should comment on 3-4 of them. 

Critical Evaluation: So What?

In writing up your critical reflection, you will need to include the following:

Summary of the article you are critiquing: this shows you understood it. Provide a brief overview of what the article was trying to do (i.e., the problem), methods, if relevant, and the thesis or findings. Make sure to mention the title and authors name.

Your critical evaluation of the article. You might address the articles problem, methods, or findings, or all of these, offering specific support from the text itself (using paraphrase or direct quote and indicating the page number) for your observations. Below are some guiding questions to help you think of what to write:

Did the article ask the right question in the first place? How does it fit with other articles on the same topic? Did it miss any important studies it should have considered?

Did the problem match the methods? For example, to understand student behavior, were students observed or interviewed, or did all the data come from teachers?

Were the findings reported in a consistent and clear format? Did you notice problems in the data that the article overlooked? Did the article fail to acknowledge and explain any limitations?

Was the logic clear and were claims properly supported with convincing data? Did you spot any fallacies?

Your opinion of the article. Did you agree with the thesis or believe the findings? If everything was logical, clear, and well-ordered, yet you remain skeptical, how would you explain that? Perhaps a fundamental difference in values would explain it, or perhaps you know of counter-evidence not considered by the author.

Your estimation of the articles contribution to knowledge and its implications or applications to our world.

Your completed reflection should be 1-2 pages long, double spaced and should follow basic MLA format rules. Direct quotations from the article to help with discussion and communication are encouraged, although this should not be a ‘formal’ piece of writing as it should focus on your thoughts/reflections/ideas about your ISU work through a close reading of your chosen article.

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