“I believe that “Heart Disease” is the most common or detrimental health issue in American Society, being that it’s seen as the leading cause of death in the United States and world wide. Heart Disease is seen as detrimental due to its estimates of over 2000 deaths per day according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019, from poor health behaviors including severe ongoing tobacco use, physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and obesity. I believe that helping individuals understand and learn the importance of the risk factors of not getting enough physical activity, decreasing tobacco use, and eating healthier can prevent issues related to health issues. I will be writing a paper regarding the “Prevention Plans to Lower Deaths Rates associated with Heart Disease in the American Society”.
Instructions and Rubric
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to help students learn how to develop research and problem solving skills. In other words, students will need to use the current research to report on some sociological issue and then articulate what they believe we can do to improve that issue in society.
Instructions
Pick a sociological issue that you find interesting that we have covered this semester and complete a research paper on it. Students should write a four to six page paper informing the reader about a sociological issue of your choosing.
Each paper should:
1.Use Headings
2. Begin with an introduction that outlines the main points to be addressed in the paper, including what topic you chose to research, your main thesis that points out the issue and how you think it can be solved. This should only be a paragraph.
3. The first half of the paper should clearly discuss the social issue you chose in detail. You should use the research to show why you think this is a social problem that needs to be
addressed. In other words, you should be showing how it impacts society, for example I
might do a paper on birth in America and use the research to show how America has the
worst infant mortality rate among developed countries, high maternal mortality rates and
have a C-section rate that is too high. You should use a minimum of 3 points to demonstrate your problem of concern. Accurately citing your work will be very important. The paper should include in text citations as well as a reference page. For example, 33% of births are C
-Sections (Miller, 2014) and the full reference should be on its own page.
View the example for help!!! Use APA, ASA, or MLA, No cover page is required.
4. The second half of your paper should discuss how you believe we can resolve this issue as a country. Simply saying that people should just do better is not a useful solution. The focus should be on how we can change our society to be better. For example, continuing the example I used before. I might say that we may need to inform women of their rights and that they have full control over their bodies. Also, we should redesign birth in this country to be focused on benefitting the mother instead of making money or making doctors more comfortable. We should normalize birth in this country instead of treating it like an illness and most importantly, home births should be made legal in all states.
5. End with a conclusion, summarize. You must have a conclusion.
6. This is not an opinion paper so please leave out the monologues about what you think about the topic, let the research speak for itself and let logic guide the solutions you come up with.
Format
Each paper should begin with the student’s name and the title of the paper. Do not use a cover page. Each paper should be typed and double spaced; the font size should be 12, Times New Roman; the paper should have one inch margins, and finally, pages should be numbered.
Quoting
Students normally ask how much of the paper should be direct quoting as opposed to their own wording. The general rule is that quotes should be used only when the language is distinctive enough to enhance the writer’s point or when paraphrasing would lessen the impact of the quoted statement. Quotes should only contain those words necessary to make the writers point
– don’t over-quote. Using too many quotes suggests that the writer was merely pasting together passages from the source without thoroughly understanding them. Since students are graded on their understanding students may want to avoid quoting altogether. Papers that are string quoted will receive a zero.
Flow
Each sentence in the paper should be well written and should make sense; each sentence should be logically connected to the sentences around it, each paragraph to the paragraphs around it, and each section to the sections around it, and all of them to the theme of the paper. In other words, the paper should be easy to read and structured in such a manner that it guides the reader through the logical steps of the paper’s format. One way to help guide the reader through these important areas is to divide the paper into paragraphs and to provide transition sentences or phrases that inform readers where the paper has gone and where it is going. These transitions indicate how sentences, paragraphs, and sections logically fit together.