18 Oct For your major argument research essay, please identify a very specific connection between poverty and healthcare.

You Do Have a Voice; You Do Have a Perspective:?Explore a Topic?and Viewpoints

Required Resources

 

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

 

Textbook: pp. 63-91, and review pp. 266-270

 

Lesson

 

Minimum of 1 source (textbook or lesson)

 

Apply the following writing resources to your assignment:

 

Link (website):?APA Citation and Writing  (Links to an external site.)

 

 For our first discussion, we will simply begin thinking about the course theme and some of the topics and debates surrounding the course theme.

 

Please answer the following in your initial discussion post.

 

Read the course theme announcement. What is the course theme?

 

Which debates in the course theme announcement interest you the most? List two of the debates from the course theme announcement (you may list more than two).

 

For each debate, where do you stand (What is your opinion?) and why?

 

Finally, choose from those two debates: Which one do you think you are more likely to write about? Why? In this response, please integrate and cite material from either your textbook or from the Week One lesson to support your answer to the question, “Why?”

 

Follow-Up Post Instructions

 

Respond to at least one classmate. Please provide rich, substantive, constructive feedback that will help your fellow students develop their topics by asking questions, by pointing to possible opposing viewpoints (which is helpful, because, without opposing viewpoints, we do not have an argument), and by providing professional and personal examples. A respectful, professional tone is expected.

 

Note: If you see that someone has already received feedback from two peers, please choose to help a peer who has yet to obtain feedback. Check back regularly and reply to those who have responded to you, including any classmates and/or your instructor.

 

Writing Requirements

 

Minimum of 2 posts (1 initial & 1 follow-up)

 

Minimum of 1 source cited (textbook or lesson)

 

APA format for in-text citations and list of references (see the APA section in the Chamberlain Writing Center)

 

Approaches to the Poverty/Health Care Connection

 

 *Your sources must be published between 2018 and 2021 and must be scholarly in nature. You will perform your research in our library, narrowing your search to these years and to “scholarly sources only.”

 

For your major argument research essay, please identify a very specific connection between poverty and healthcare. Consider multiple reasonable approaches, choosing the approach you believe is best. Your thesis will be similar to the ones below; you will choose the very specific topic that most appeals to you and will argue for your approach as more viable than other reasonable approaches.

 

A possible thesis pattern (fill in the brackets and the blank with your specific choices):

 

While there are multiple viable solutions to lowering the impact of poverty on [choose a health impact like: mental health/one specific age group like prenatal/neonatal/preschool, elementary, ‘tween, teen, young adult, geriatric], the best approach is _________________________.

 

 Another possible thesis pattern (fill in the brackets and the blank with your specific choices):

 

Many approaches to addressing [choose an issue like the lack of mental health care/higher rates of a specific condition like heart disease or diabetes/physical access to health care/negative attitudes toward health care/less action regarding preventative care and minor illnesses/a specific health care issue of your choice] for people living in poverty exist; however, the most effective course of action would be to   _______________________.

 

This theme is broad and offers many possibilities for specific argumentative research topics. So, please keep in mind that you must find a narrowed focus related to this theme that is arguable and that is not based in personal belief. 

 

If we plan to persuade our readers about a controversial issue, we need to know what the experts have said about our topic.

 

You will use the Chamberlain library to find articles where experts discuss the pros of your chosen topic.