Month 1: Research - due 16 February 2012
After having narrowed down our 3+ ideas to one, you will set about the task of researching your cause. Identify the problem, the major and/or local players (if any) in solving it, and the possible solutions, whether already existent or proposed. Your research will then go into a ten-page paper with a minimum of 20 sources (5+ offline).
To be included:
1. Introduction: Identify the problem and the proposed solution in 1 to 3 paragraphs. Due Thursday 26 January.
2. Body:
a. Problem, in-depth analysis: who does it affect? how does it affect them? how did it start? how long has it existed? why does it exist? what are political, social, environmental, psychological, religious, or other factors that have created the problem?
b. Solutions, in-depth analysis: who (people or organizations, if anyone) is working to solve the problem? what solutions have been tried and failed? tried and succeeded? What are best practices in approaching the problem?
c. Solutions, your part: why have you chosen this problem/solution? how can you be a part of a current or ongoing solution or initiate your own? what are the specific details of instituting your solution? what will it cost and who will pay the bill? who, if anyone besides yourself, will actively participate in creating/applying/instituting the solution?
3. Conclusion: Who are the major players (if any, outside of yourself) in the solution and how will you be engaged with them? What agreements do you have from the participants and recipients of your solution as to how it will be received or delivered? What is the overall estimated or projected impact of the solution on the problem?
After having narrowed down our 3+ ideas to one, you will set about the task of researching your cause. Identify the problem, the major and/or local players (if any) in solving it, and the possible solutions, whether already existent or proposed. Your research will then go into a ten-page paper with a minimum of 20 sources (5+ offline).
To be included:
1. Introduction: Identify the problem and the proposed solution in 1 to 3 paragraphs. Due Thursday 26 January.
2. Body:
a. Problem, in-depth analysis: who does it affect? how does it affect them? how did it start? how long has it existed? why does it exist? what are political, social, environmental, psychological, religious, or other factors that have created the problem?
b. Solutions, in-depth analysis: who (people or organizations, if anyone) is working to solve the problem? what solutions have been tried and failed? tried and succeeded? What are best practices in approaching the problem?
c. Solutions, your part: why have you chosen this problem/solution? how can you be a part of a current or ongoing solution or initiate your own? what are the specific details of instituting your solution? what will it cost and who will pay the bill? who, if anyone besides yourself, will actively participate in creating/applying/instituting the solution?
3. Conclusion: Who are the major players (if any, outside of yourself) in the solution and how will you be engaged with them? What agreements do you have from the participants and recipients of your solution as to how it will be received or delivered? What is the overall estimated or projected impact of the solution on the problem?
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