Evaluate at least two strategies for promoting positive environmental behavior.

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Select an environmental problem that you can observe in your local community (i.e., air pollution, noise, traffic, waste disposal, water control, construction, crowding).

Prepare a 1,400- to 2,000-word paper in which evaluate strategies for promoting positive environmental behavior using your selected environmental problem. As a part of your paper, be sure to also address the following items:

  • Evaluate at least two strategies for promoting positive environmental behavior.
  • Explain how positive and negative consequences can increase pro-environmental behavior. Provide examples.
  • Describe at least one positive and one negative example of how technological advances have impacted the environment.
  • Assess the influence of environmental policies.

Include at least four references from peer-reviewed sources.

Globalization Argumentative Paper Latest Jul 2015

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Individual Assignment: Globalization Argumentative Paper

 

Purpose of Assignment

 

The argumentative essay incorporates the skills of premise and conclusion, learned in Week 1, and builds upon them. The new critical thinking skills introduced in the essay are inductive and deductive reasoning. For the chosen position on government health care, the student will demonstrate understanding of inductive and deductive reasoning by providing an explanation of how each reasoning type was used in the writing process.

 

Resources Required

 

Critical Thinking, Ch. 3

 

Grading Guide

 

Content

70 Percent

 Met

 

 Partially Met Not Met

 

 Comments:
The student identifies why or why not government-run health care is good for the consumer.        
For the chosen position, the student provides an example of deductive reasoning and an example of inductive reasoning.        
The chosen position is argued in a logical and convincing way.        
The student includes identification of premises and conclusions.        
The paper is no more than 750 words in length.        
    Total Available Total Earned  
    4.2 #/4.2  
Writing Guidelines

30 Percent

 Met

 

 Partially Met Not Met

 

 Comments:
The paper—including tables and graphs, headings, title page, and reference page—is consistent with APA formatting guidelines and meets course-level requirements.        
Intellectual property is recognized with in-text citations and a reference page.        
Paragraph and sentence transitions are present, logical, and maintain the flow throughout the paper.        
Sentences are complete, clear, and concise.        
Rules of grammar and usage are followed, including spelling and punctuation.        
    Total Available Total Earned  
    1.8 #/1.8  
Assignment Total # 6 #/6  
Additional comments:

 

 

 

Description of the issue of controversy.

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Write a 350-500 word topic proposal introducing the topic for your final project, which will be due in Week Nine. Your final project will be a slide presentation with speaker notes.

Choose a salient issue of controversy to explore from your community, the nation, or the world.

You must use at least two, and no more than three, philosophical approaches you learned in this course.

These include:  Pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Dualism, Idealism, Materialism, Continental, Pragmatism, Analytic, Kant, Mill, Care Ethics, Social Contract, Classic Liberalism, Libertarianism, Marxism, Chinese, Japanese, India/Hindu, Feminist, or Post-colonialist.

You may employ them to show where you think they are correct or where they are incorrect, you may contrast them or show how both agree on a point.  How you utilize these two or three perspectives is up to you.

Include the following in your proposal. You will use this information later in your slide show and speaker notes.

  • Description of the issue of controversy.
  • Discussion of how two or three philosophies or philosophers would describe the roots of the problem
  • Discussion of the political or ethical theories that are in evidence in the controversy
  • Your proposed solution to the problem based on the readings and your own research; would you use any of the philosophers or philosophies you chose?
  • Description of why you think your approach would solve the problem better than current approaches

Find at least 2 peer-reviewed sources in the University Library and discuss in your proposal how those sources support or refute your opinions. The following are useful resources that are available on the Multimedia page of the University Library:

  • Issues & Controversies
  • Issues & Controversies in American History
  • Global Issues in Context

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Self-Assessment

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As a researcher, you must understand that the body of knowledge the world uses to reason and analyze phenomena is always changing. There are always places to improve upon, refine, and add to the knowledge in your discipline. Likewise, your own skills and knowledge follow the same pattern. The skills you have acquired through this course are only the foundation of a very complex field. Even an experienced qualitative researcher knows that being able to identify where one still needs improvement and how to obtain additional skills is an important step toward continuously becoming a well-rounded researcher.

 

To prepare for this Application:

  • Assess your progress and skills with qualitative reasoning and analysis. Where do you still need to improve, and what is your plan for improving those skills?
  • Consider what role this course has played in helping you determine a dissertation topic approach. Has your original topic and approach changed? Why? How?
  • To what extent has using a software package informed your understanding of research in general? How has it informed you about how to read the findings of a research article?
  • Think about how this course fits into your residency requirements. Are you on track? Have you registered for your next residency?

The assignment:

  • Craft a 2-page paper in which you assess your progress in qualitative reasoning and analysis. Be sure you have addressed the questions above.