Research Assignment Outline & Working Thesis Statement To help you determine the structure of your Research Assignment, complete a written assignment outline.? Step 1: Review the Assignment
Research Assignment Outline & Working Thesis Statement
To help you determine the structure of your Research Assignment, complete a written assignment outline.
Step 1: Review the Assignment Guidelines & Gather Sources
· Using the Research Assignment PromptDownload Research Assignment Prompt and your in-class writing and materials from the past few weeks, prepare to write your Research Assignment outline by doing the following from our "Why & How to Create a Useful Outline" handout:Download "Why & How to Create a Useful Outline" handout:
o Determine the purpose of your paper – what is the primary reason for writing this type of assignment?
o Determine the audience you are writing for – what type of reader are you addressing? How familiar are they with your "thing"?
o Develop the thesis of your paper – the thesis statement of your assignment should be directly supported by the topics of your outline's body paragraphs (this will likely change in the coming weeks, and that's okay!), referencing our Types of Thesis Statements handoutDownload Types of Thesis Statements handout as you write.
· If you haven't already, decide which sources will be important to reference and engage with in your Research Assignment.
o Remember – the prompt asks you to use at least 2 scholarly secondary sources, and suggests you'll likely need additional popular sources to support your assignment's points.
o Be sure to familiarize yourself with your chosen sources before basing your writing on them. Use active reading strategies to deepen your understanding of your sources' points.
Step 2: Construct the Outline
· Write your Research Assignment outline, using the Nicola Tesla outlineDownload Nicola Tesla outline as an example to follow.
o Notice that the example outline mixes sources within paragraphs, putting them in conversation with each other. To do this, find points within topics that your sources agree or disagree on.
o If you finish structuring your outline and realize that your paragraph topics don't support your thesis statement, be sure to revise either the thesis statement or your topics to line them up.
o Remember – the Tesla outline example is the minimum of what you'll need to create a useful outline. Feel free to add more detail to your outline by writing out your major/minor points of each paragraph, what parts of a source you'll be using in each paragraph, etc. Taking more time on your outline right now often leads to spending less time writing your draft later!
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Diggs. 1
Quintezha Diggs
Professor Carolyn Bauhaus
ENGL1013 English Composition
November 3, 2022
English 1013- Annotated Bibliography- Life Challenges
Question: Are there hidden opportunities in life, challenges, and fears that people face?
Dewey, John. "Does reality possess practical character?." Pragmatism. 79-91. Routledge, 2020.
The source has quality information that has been proven to be authentic. Moreover, the content in the source aligns with real-life situations people are exposed to, which makes the source application. The author is qualified to address the issue since he is a philosophy and psychology professional and an educational reformer. The main focus is to influence educational and social reforms. The specialization makes the author eligible to address the issues, especially from his first-hand experience in the industry. The content is also recent, which means it realities with life situations and challenges people are facing in the present times. The source shall be used in the paper to show how life realities that are challenging in nature push one to notice the opportunities they bring about. The source shall also be used to show how a negative attitude toward challenging life realities compromises character and hence block chances of noticing the opportunities and taking advantage of them.
Reiss, Franziska, et al. "Socioeconomic status, stressful life situations and mental health problems in children and adolescents: Results of the German BELLA cohort-study." PloS one 14.3 (2019): e0213700.
This article focuses mainly on socioeconomic status, stressful life situations, and mental health problems affecting children and adolescents. The author mentions these areas as leading life challenges children and adolescents face. It is noted that many children exposed to socioeconomic challenges from the early stages of their development, in most cases, learn from these challenges. This is why most of them explore every opportunity life throws at them with the intention of changing their story from a bad to a good and admirable one. However, if they get mentally affected by childhood life challenges, their potential to explore opportunities gets interfered with.
The source is quality because the authors are professionals, it is recent, and primary research has been done. The information in the source shall be used to prove how life challenges and fears people face from early stages of development have quality hidden opportunities with the potential of attracting long-lasting success. The source shall be used to demonstrate why it is important to avoid focusing on current challenges as they can weigh one down but rather work on reviewing situations to identify available opportunities to explore.
Remien, Robert H., et al. "Mental health and HIV/AIDS: the need for an integrated response." AIDS (London, England) 33.9 (2019): 1411.
Mental health and HIV/AIDS are two major challenges affecting families, individuals, and society. The situations bring a lot of fear and anxiety among victims to the point of being rendered hopeless. The author notices that some life challenges like mental health and HIV/AIDS require support from unaffected members of society. They are the ones that carry opportunities for people with severe life challenges like mental health and HIV/AIDS. Failure of society to support can bring to an end quality talents and potential.
This source is one of the best sources supporting the dynamic question being addressed in this research. The source carries valid and reliable information that brings a different perspective. In this regard, the source shall be used to show that some fears and challenges are beyond the victim and that despite the opportunities that might be available, it might be hard for the victim to notice them or even positively respond. If proper intervention is not given on time, the victims would only remain in fear and challenges leading to destruction. Hence, hidden opportunities in life, challenges, and fears can only be maximized when a person is in the right state of mind, emotions, and physical health.
Sambas, Abdul Azim Mohamed, Masitah Shahrill, and Masriatol Zuraifah Sajali. "Supporting Design and Technology Lessons with the Use of Problem-Based Learning." European Journal of Education 1.3 (2018): 25-36.
In this article, the author describes how people facing different life challenges and fears can use technology and design to get out of the problems they are in with the help of lessons learned in the course of facing the challenges. The author argues that there is always a solution to people's problems. All that is needed is a solution mind to take the lesson that comes with any life challenge. A positive mind allows available resources to be utilized in developing appropriate solutions.
The source is of quality because it is professionally written, and the author has met the requirements to publish a scholarly article. The information is applicable because the author has described how design and technology can be implemented to solve many life challenges and fears that people face. The information shall hence be used in the paper to demonstrate how advanced technology can come in handy in changing life challenges and fear. As a matter of reality, the source shall be useful in proving that design and technology are two potential opportunities that remain hidden and, when utilized properly, can save even difficult situations.
Sarkis, Joseph, et al. "A brave new world: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for transitioning to sustainable supply and production." Resources, conservation, and recycling 159 (2020): 104894.
Covid-19 is one of the major and recent challenges that people got exposed to. It is a perfect example of life challenges and fears that people face as it affects a high number of people in the world. In this source, the author talks about the great and brave lessons that covid-19 exposed people to after being locked in their houses and undergoing massive retrenchment from their workplaces. The author notices that amid lack of employment, loneliness, financial constraints, and fear emanating from massive uncertainties, new opportunities was created, for instance, working remotely and establishing new ways of producing, supplying, and selling goods and services without threatening life further.
Many can relate to the source's reliable, valid, and practical information. It is an extensively investigated source, and the author has met the necessary recommendation. The content shall be used to provide examples of recent life challenges and fear that many faced the hidden opportunities the situation brought about, and how many people thrived in the opportunities to the point of averting the situation from bad to good. The source shall be used to challenge people who remain trapped by life challenges and fears to apply good values and virtues and change the situation.
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Extended Definition: Nicola Tesla
Outline for paper
· Introduction
· Topic: Nicola Tesla
· Thesis Statement: Nicola Tesla, an immigrant who began simply in Croatia, became a loud voice in the world of electrical inventors, despite his many enemies, leaving behind a legacy that has stood the test of time.
· Body Paragraph 1: Background
· Sources being used:
· Source 1: Engineering Daily (provides context on why Tesla is an important figure in engineering field)
· Source 2: biography.com (provides detailed info on his personal/early life)
· Source 5: nicolateslamuseum.org (contains key documents from his life and info on his inventions)
· Body Paragraph 2: Inventions
· Sources being used:
· Source 2: biography.com (provides more info on the background of his inventions)
· Source 3: Scientific American (provides good explanation of how his inventions influence today’s technology)
· Image 1: Artstor (Database) (image of Tesla’s invention for reader’s reference)
· Body Paragraph 3: Enemies
· Sources being used:
· Source 2: biography.com (provides details information on his rivalries with other key inventors)
· Source 4: Encyclopedia Britannica (contains very credible info on Tesla’s various enemies)
· Body Paragraph 4: Legacy
· Sources being used:
· Source 1: Engineering Daily (provides context on why Tesla is an important figure in engineering field)
· Source 3: Scientific American (provides good explanation of how his inventions influence today’s technology)
· Source 4: Encyclopedia Britannica (contains very credible info on Tesla’s legacy)
· Image 2: cnn.com (image of Tesla for reader’s reference)
· Conclusion
· Without Nicola Tesla America is less likely to have moved forward as quickly as a nation of inventors. While there have been many others, Tesla helped to put the US on the map.
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Diggs 1
Quintezha Diggs
Professor Carolyn Bauhaus
ENGL1013 English Composition
October 25, 2022
Research Assignment Prompt- Works Cited – Life Challenges
Works cited
Dewey, John. "Does reality possess practical character?." Pragmatism. Routledge, 2020. 79-91.
Reiss, Franziska, et al. "Socioeconomic status, stressful life situations and mental health problems in children and adolescents: Results of the German BELLA cohort-study." PloS one 14.3 (2019): e0213700.
Remien, Robert H., et al. "Mental health and HIV/AIDS: the need for an integrated response." AIDS (London, England) 33.9 (2019): 1411.
Sambas, Abdul Azim Mohamed, Masitah Shahrill, and Masriatol Zuraifah Sajali. "Supporting Design and Technology Lessons with the Use of Problem-Based Learning." European Journal of Education 1.3 (2018): 25-36.
Sarkis, Joseph, et al. "A brave new world: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for transitioning to sustainable supply and production." Resources, conservation, and recycling 159 (2020): 104894.
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Diggs. 1
Quintezha Diggs
Professor Carolyn Bauhaus
ENGL1013 English Composition
November 3, 2022
English 1013- Annotated Bibliography- Life Challenges
Question: Are there hidden opportunities in life, challenges, and fears that people face?
Dewey, John. "Does reality possess practical character?." Pragmatism. 79-91. Routledge, 2020.
In this source, the author addresses the connection between reality and the human character that people display. The author claims that the real-life situations that people face come as a turning point, which means they impact the character of a person. One of the main points raised is that realities can make a character better or bad depending on the experience and the person's attitude toward the issue. For instance, when one faces life hardships like sickness, lack of employment, financial constraints leading to lack of basic commodities, or even betrayal, such instances create room for one to understand the situation as it is. There are several practical life lessons one is taken through that directly affects personality for better or worse. The situation proves that; indeed, reality does possess practical character.
The source has quality information that has been proven to be authentic. Moreover, the content in the source aligns with real-life situations people are exposed to, which makes the source application. The author is qualified to address the issue since he is a philosophy and psychology professional and an educational reformer. The main focus is to influence educational and social reforms. The specialization makes the author eligible to address the issues, especially from his first-hand experience in the industry. The content is also recent, which means it realities with life situations and challenges people are facing in the present times. The source shall be used in the paper to show how life realities that are challenging in nature push one to notice the opportunities they bring about. The source shall also be used to show how a negative attitude toward challenging life realities compromises character and hence block chances of noticing the opportunities and taking advantage of them.
Reiss, Franziska, et al. "Socioeconomic status, stressful life situations and mental health problems in children and adolescents: Results of the German BELLA cohort-study." PloS one 14.3 (2019): e0213700.
This article focuses mainly on socioeconomic status, stressful life situations, and mental health problems affecting children and adolescents. The author mentions these areas as leading life challenges children and adolescents face. It is noted that many children exposed to socioeconomic challenges from the early stages of their development, in most cases, learn from these challenges. This is why most of them explore every opportunity life throws at them with the intention of changing their story from a bad to a good and admirable one. However, if they get mentally affected by childhood life challenges, their potential to explore opportunities gets interfered with.
The source is quality because the authors are professionals, it is recent, and primary research has been done. The information in the source shall be used to prove how life challenges and fears people face from early stages of development have quality hidden opportunities with the potential of attracting long-lasting success. The source shall be used to demonstrate why it is important to avoid focusing on current challenges as they can weigh one down but rather work on reviewing situations to identify available opportunities to explore.
Remien, Robert H., et al. "Mental health and HIV/AIDS: the need for an integrated response." AIDS (London, England) 33.9 (2019): 1411.
Mental health and HIV/AIDS are two major challenges affecting families, individuals, and society. The situations bring a lot of fear and anxiety among victims to the point of being rendered hopeless. The author notices that some life challenges like mental health and HIV/AIDS require support from unaffected members of society. They are the ones that carry opportunities for people with severe life challenges like mental health and HIV/AIDS. Failure of society to support can bring to an end quality talents and potential.
This source is one of the best sources supporting the dynamic question being addressed in this research. The source carries valid and reliable information that brings a different perspective. In this regard, the source shall be used to show that some fears and challenges are beyond the victim and that despite the opportunities that might be available, it might be hard for the victim to notice them or even positively respond. If proper intervention is not given on time, the victims would only remain in fear and challenges leading to destruction. Hence, hidden opportunities in life, challenges, and fears can only be maximized when a person is in the right state of mind, emotions, and physical health.
Sambas, Abdul Azim Mohamed, Masitah Shahrill, and Masriatol Zuraifah Sajali. "Supporting Design and Technology Lessons with the Use of Problem-Based Learning." European Journal of Education 1.3 (2018): 25-36.
In this article, the author describes how people facing different life challenges and fears can use technology and design to get out of the problems they are in with the help of lessons learned in the course of facing the challenges. The author argues that there is always a solution to people's problems. All that is needed is a solution mind to take the lesson that comes with any life challenge. A positive mind allows available resources to be utilized in developing appropriate solutions.
The source is of quality because it is professionally written, and the author has met the requirements to publish a scholarly article. The information is applicable because the author has described how design and technology can be implemented to solve many life challenges and fears that people face. The information shall hence be used in the paper to demonstrate how advanced technology can come in handy in changing life challenges and fear. As a matter of reality, the source shall be useful in proving that design and technology are two potential opportunities that remain hidden and, when utilized properly, can save even difficult situations.
Sarkis, Joseph, et al. "A brave new world: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for transitioning to sustainable supply and production." Resources, conservation, and recycling 159 (2020): 104894.
Covid-19 is one of the major and recent challenges that people got exposed to. It is a perfect example of life challenges and fears that people face as it affects a high number of people in the world. In this source, the author talks about the great and brave lessons that covid-19 exposed people to after being locked in their houses and undergoing massive retrenchment from their workplaces. The author notices that amid lack of employment, loneliness, financial constraints, and fear emanating from massive uncertainties, new opportunities was created, for instance, working remotely and establishing new ways of producing, supplying, and selling goods and services without threatening life further.
Many can relate to the source's reliable, valid, and practical information. It is an extensively investigated source, and the author has met the necessary recommendation. The content shall be used to provide examples of recent life challenges and fear that many faced the hidden opportunities the situation brought about, and how many people thrived in the opportunities to the point of averting the situation from bad to good. The source shall be used to challenge people who remain trapped by life challenges and fears to apply good values and virtues and change the situation.
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Diggs 1
Quintezha Diggs
Professor Carolyn Bauhaus
ENGL1013 English Composition
October 25, 2022
English 1013- Research Assignment Prompt- Life Challenges
Question: Are there hidden opportunities in life challenges and fears that people face?
Life challenges are inevitable and in getting into challenges are easier than living a life free of challenges. Ever since time in memorial, human beings have been working day and night to keep away from diverse and immense life challenges. This is because life challenges are always perceived from a negative perspective that they bring people down hurting people emotionally, physically, and psychologically. Challenges make people to develop untold fear that hinder them from realizing their full potential. As a result, many have been blocked from realizing their dreams something that makes them to live in regrets. However, challenges can bring good tidings if addressed from a positive perspective. Challenges make people stronger; they create innovative minds, they promote good behavior as they make people humble and above all they amplify achievements. Life challenges affect people, but they give people chances to making positive change only when they are approached positively.
Life challenges have caused deaths of many people in the world. According to Reiss, Franziska, et al. (12) challenges bring failure of many sorts resulting in hopelessness and despair. For instance, sickness, financial constraints, loss of loved ones, lack of employment, betrayal, inability to forgive, relationship breakups, family quarrels, and lost investment or savings are only a few of vast life challenges that people are exposed to. Challenges affect the inner person as they develop hard to contain fear that stagnate a person. As a matter of reality, life challenges make one to feel demotivated to work hard as they have a way of making one feel like a failure Reiss, Franziska, et al. (20). It is this feeling that if nurtured results in feeling of hopelessness and desire that life is not important. Many people that fail to access psychological and emotional help at such times results in attempted failed or successful suicide.
Life challenges have made even those with some levels of achievement to lose it all. There are many instances that challenges make one to use available resources with intentions of turning the situation for the better only for things to get worse. For instance, in the case where one after getting into an accident or falling sick tends to use available finances to get well and work to get more finances only for the health condition to fail to improve as the person is pushed into poverty state (Sambas, et al. 33). In another instance is where a rich person gets duped, and resources stolen and in other instance is investing in a wrong business leading to massive loss and regrets. This means that life challenges can pull one from a good life status into a bad and undesirable life situation.
However, challenges are not entirely bad as they have molded a lot of people in the society. It is evident that for long, people have failed to take challenges positively and hence they prolong their suffering. Notably, the small percentage of people who saw opportunities from challenges life placed their way have not only overcome the challenge but also fear that challenges along and further making life better for themselves and others (Sambas, et al. 28). For instance, in the early days when there were no vehicles, people could walk for long distances and they could take days and months to get from one location to the other. Along the way they could suffer hunger, attacks by wild animals and others could die in the process. These challenges pushed some people into innovation and vehicles were designed as a result. The modern day comfortable and fast means of transport have their origin on past mobility challenges that people faced something that eradicated this specific challenge entirely (Sambas, et al. 30). Also, many people could die from illnesses and the challenge made some people to see an opportunity in inventing medicine and medical services something that led to the creation of the healthcare sector. This means all developments the world enjoys today is a result of past life problems.
According to Dewey, John (82) it is through challenges that people learn and become stronger in life. Whenever a person is faced with any kind of challenges, he/she has to put efforts to overcome the challenge. Different measures put in place may fail and this grants one a chance to learn on things that work and those that do not work. By the time the applied solution works, it becomes a practical learning process that surpasses any academic lesson. As a matter of reality, life challenges make people disciplined and remain cautious as they are aware of how it feels to be in problems and hence would apply precaution to remain safe (Sarkis, Joseph, et al. 104894).
For instance, a person who has been hungry for lack of food would not dare sit idle but would rather try seeking employment or engage in activities that would earn a living to keep away from hunger (Dewey, John 86). A person who has been through sickness would try to do things that would keep him/her away from sickness for instance observing hygiene, taking medication religiously, and avoiding behaviors warned by medical professionals, or engaging in risky sexual behaviors. The caution makes only makes people better and this means that even the most successful people in the world are products of past life challenges.
According to Remien, Robert H., et al. (1411) challenges make people humble as they realize that they do not have what it is necessary to overcome the challenges. As one learns important values, principles, and skills to overcome challenges, the process prepares one for future possibilities and daily efforts are put in place. The consistency is known for gradually attracting success and when it is attained, the same failure amplifies achievement. For example, in the society today, when once a poor person becomes a great and successful person, the level of impact and appreciation the person receives is different from a person in the same rank but was born with a silver spoon in his/her mouth. People who manage to strive against all odds and succeed in life become role models that many look up to and this is not the case for people who have never been exposed to challenges (Sarkis, Joseph, et al. 104894). This is the case because people in problems are always willing to learn from those that were in similar problems in the past as they send an encouraging message that no amount of challenges and fear that cannot be overcome.
In conclusion, life challenges and fear do not have a single perspective as they have been perceived for the longest time. There are a lot of positive opportunities that can be realized from these challenges that can make the world a better place. As a matter of reality, any milestone that has ever been achieved in life emanated from a certain problem. It is a fact that even all types of crimes the world has ever experienced emanated from life challenges and fear. But it is possible to ignore the negative perspective and focus on positive perspective as this is the only aspect that can benefit individuals, society, nations, and the world.
Works cited
Dewey, John. "Does reality possess practical character?." Pragmatism. Routledge, 2020. 79-91.
Reiss, Franziska, et al. "Socioeconomic status, stressful life situations and mental health problems in children and adolescents: Results of the German BELLA cohort-study." PloS one 14.3 (2019): e0213700.
Remien, Robert H., et al. "Mental health and HIV/AIDS: the need for an integrated response." AIDS (London, England) 33.9 (2019): 1411.
Sambas, Abdul Azim Mohamed, Masitah Shahrill, and Masriatol Zuraifah Sajali. "Supporting Design and Technology Lessons with the Use of Problem-Based Learning." European Journal of Education 1.3 (2018): 25-36.
Sarkis, Joseph, et al. "A brave new world: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for transitioning to sustainable supply and production." Resources, conservation, and recycling 159 (2020): 104894.
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ENGLISH 1013: RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT PROMPT
What is this assignment?
For this assignment, you will be working to “find the best answer to an important but challenging question” (Booth, Colomb, & Williams 106) within a topic of your choice. This is an opportunity to display your skills in analysis, synthesis, comprehension, and evaluation in relation to credible sources you will find along the way. Additionally, your job as a writer is to help the audience understand vital contextual information and the different perspectives within your topic (including your own). While this feat necessitates integrating in external sources, remember that this is primarily your assignment, your voice, and your writing.
To specify: you must engage with at least five sources in this assignment, one of which must be from a NWACC Library database. Your sources can be pop-culture sources, primary research (interviews, surveys), or other credible materials that serve to explore and illustrate your topic. Keep in mind that you should include sources that do not agree with your research assignment’s thesis statement, in order to demonstrate that you understand the variety of perspectives within this conversation. To advance your own thesis, your job will then be to reasonably refute these sources within your assignment.
This assignment helps you develop the essential skills described in our course learning outcomes 1 -7 (listed on the front page of our syllabus).
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