Create a personal timeline to assist you with completing your Action Research Proposal and other class assignments.

Begin with the “end in mind” by first marking the due date for your ARP PPT presentation on your timeline.

Plan backward from that date, marking all the other due dates for class assignments on your timeline

Consider the following:

What days will you set aside for completion of other assignments, such as individual and learning team?
How long will it take you to identify your problem (Section One)?
How long will it take you to document the problem and conduct your literature review (Section Two)?
How long will it take you to identify your action goals and selected solutions (Section Three)?
How long will it take you to write your expected outcomes (Section Four)?

Create your timeline in any format that will help you stay on task, such as calendar form, list form, linear graphic organizer, or other. Do not use Prezi or provide any other links to view the assignment.

Include an APA formatted title page.

All questions must be answered

Instructions: Please carefully read the following assignment details in its entirety. There are many components to this particular assignment, and each component is graded.

This essay should be between 900 and 1000 words, excluding the required annotated bibliography.

First, you will choose a public debate that has at least two opposing sides (please do not reuse your Toulmin essay topic). As before, you need to research that topic in order to narrow the topics scope, so it can be easily discussed in 1000 word essay.

Note: Consider your audience as laymen in the field who have only general knowledge of your topic.

This essay must include a minimum of five sources.  Three should be peer-reviewed sources, preferably from the APUS databases.  From the library welcome page, click on Advanced Search at the bottom of the page and then check the “peer reviewed” sources box filter.

The following should clarify the term “peer-reviewed”:  http://youtu.be/rOCQZ7QnoN0. You may use eBooks; however, as discussed in your textbook, books generally are not as current as peer-reviewed articles.  You may also use primary sources (interviews, statistics, etc); however, these primary sources should be obtained from experts within that field.  If you cannot find strong sources for your chosen topic, then change your topic. If you have a question about the validity of a source, please contact a librarian: librarian@apus.edu

Make sure to include the following sections in your essay:

an introduction and claim,
background,
body,
and a conclusion.

Make sure your essay includes the following:

The background for your chosen topic,
A discussion of both sides of the debate, including core values or warrants underlying their arguments
Your common ground (Rogerian) solution/claim
An explanation of how that common ground claim can resolve the core issue for both sides.

After you have written your essay, please make sure to revise the content of your essay. Lastly, be sure to edit your essay by checking grammar, format, and smaller technical details. Please make sure your essay is written in third person.