Allen University Racial Discrimination Essay

Racial discrimination: Do blacks have a place in matters of equality in the United States ?

Write a research paper using evidence to support a thesis that addresses your research question examining a current issue or event in the news from the perspective of your field of study. The audience is people who are generally educated but do not have extensive knowledge of your field or topic.

Connection to other Course Assignments

The Issue Exploration assignment helped you develop a topic for the Research Paper First Draft.

The Annotated Bibliography assignment helped you identify sources and plan how to  use them.

In the Revised Research Paper and Expanded Reflection, you will incorporate feedback on this first draft and reflect on the experience of completing the research paper.

As you complete the tasks required for this assignment, you will be working toward several of the course outcomes:

Use research to write a paper that will inform or persuade an audience.

• Form unified, coherent, and well-supported paragraphs in support of the thesis statement.
• Select sources, use them to inform and support your writing, and document them in APA style
• Demonstrate accurate grammar and mechanics in writing.
• Sources

To earn the maximum possible points on this assignment, use and cite at least eight sources.

At least three of these must be from scholarly journals, and all sources should be selected based on reliability, currency, and level of information/analysis. The UMGC library will be very useful in helping you find appropriate sources. You can, but do not have to, include all of the sources from your annotated bibliography.

Content and Organization

This paper is the culmination of your research project, in which you are examining a current issue or event in the news from the perspective of  field of criminal justice . Before drafting your paper, you will have chosen a topic, developed a research question, and identified several potential sources in an annotated bibliography. You should write on the same topic for this paper, unless your professor has asked you to make changes to your topic.

As you write your paper, be sure to include the following:

An introductory paragraph that includes your thesis statement. The introduction is meant to engage your readers and orient them to the topic, and the thesis statement should clearly state your position or central claim to be supported in the body of your paper.

• Any definition of terms or background information that your reader is likely to need to understand your paper
• Focused body paragraphs that begin with topic sentences and use transitions as needed. This is where you will support the thesis using arguments and evidence. Use the sentence outline you developed in class to guide you.
• A concluding paragraph that reiterates the thesis, summarizes key points of the paper, and leaves the reader with the “So what?”