You will compose a letter or an online petition to send to local, state, and/or national representatives in support of a particular policy or approach. Through this assignment you will sharpen your sociological imagination and, by applying it, you will put into practice sociology’s principle that the personal is political.
You will write a letter individually to a state or local representative (US Senator, US Representative, Governor, County Commissioner, City Mayor, etc.) or create an online petition (for change.org, for example) to advocate for your viewpoint on the issue. You must describe the issue briefly. You must also take a position on the issue, supporting your position by referencing some form of data or research. This could involve supporting a specific policy change or increasing or decreasing funding for a particular program. Your letter or online petition must be grammatically correct and proofread. Your letter must include the name and address of a state or local representative.
Helpful sources
Here (https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials) is a link where you can find your national, state, and local representatives.
You can find some examples of successful online petitions and guidelines here (https://www.gopetition.com/petition-examples) and here (https://www.thepetitionsite.com/successful-petition-examples/).
Grading rubric
20 points: the letter/petition meets all the criteria above
10 points: the letter/petition meets most of the criteria above, but not all (for example, it takes a position, but provides no support; or no representative identified)
0 points: the letter misses many of the criteria above (for example, no data provided and no representative identified)
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Before you start developing a research question, you first select an appropriate topic for scientific investigation. Selecting a problem will take creativity; you may consider searching social work concepts of human behavior or possibly personal experience or expertise. For example, if you are interested in exploring intimate partner violence you may want to explore if there are programs that are effective at decreasing violence or preventing violence.
For this Discussion, you discuss the importance of refining a research problem, and then you identify a population, intervention, and outcome you would like to explore for this course.
Required Reading:
Monette, D. R., Sullivan, T. J., DeJong, C. R., & Hilton, T. P. (2014). Applied social research: A tool for the human services (9th ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.
• Chapter 4, “Issues in Problem Formulation” (76–101)
Use APA 7th edition citation and references. Respond to the following:
A.
• Describe the importance of refining a research problem in conceptual development.
• Identify a client problem, intervention, and outcome you would like to research.
• Explain the importance of developing a clear and specific research question.
B.
• Suggest one way in which your colleague could refine their research problem, intervention, or question to be answerable.

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