This analysis project requires you to tackle a problem within your field of study by first exploring it, its causes, and its impacts. Then, if you want, you can recommend one or more practical solutions to solve the problem.
After deciding on the problem you wish to tackle, begin building questions about it. Your goal for the analysis is to answer the questions through your sources. Finding multiple angles and perspectives is ideal so that you explore those possibilities in the final paper before settling on your recommendation. Be sure to identify what is at stake.
Here are questions to help guide your analysis:
1. What is the problem being addressed (explain, describe, and "prove" that it exists)?
2. Who is affected by this problem?
3. How does the problem look different based on the perspectives of different stakeholders? (For example, industrialists will have a different perspective than environmentalists or administrators will have a different perspective than doctors).
4. Why does this problem exist? (Identify the root causes.)
5. Why does the problem persist? (Identify the major factors that contribute to the problem's ongoing presence.)
6. What is at stake if the problem is not solved?
If you decide to include a solution, use these questions to guide you:
1. Have other countries successfully solved this problem?
2. What actions can be taken to come towards a solution?
3. Why would this help?
4. What are the positive and negative aspects of potential solutions?
· PURPOSE: To analyze a problem and (possibly) provide a solution
· AUDIENCE: Classmates, others interested in the field
· LENGTH: XXXXXXXXXX,000 words (Times New Roman font). Please do not go significantly (~10%) under or above the word count requirement. This word count includes only the paragraphs in your final essay (not the Works Cited/References page or previously submitted sections).
· SOURCES: 5 (five) scholarly, peer-reviewed sources from the APUS Li
ary
· FORMAT: The citation style that is appropriate for your discipline
Submit your assignment as a Word document attached to the assignment link so it can be automatically processed through Turnitin. Use either the MLA or APA template provided. You can save the template with a title like this: Smith Final Portfolio.