EXAM 1 - Draft Paper
- Due Oct 9, 2020 by 11:59pm
- Points 50
- Submitting a file upload
- File Types pdf
IMPORTANT:
You must DOWNLOAD a PDF version of the text to your desktop/device in order to access the PAGE NUMBERS required for this paper.
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this exam is to provide you an opportunity to demonstrate comprehension of the class material and its application to real life. This is a college-level paper with college-level expectations, including spelling, punctuation, grammar and sentence structure.
Students are required to submit draft papers to the Academic Readiness Center (Links to an external site.) for review to help secure maximum credit. This can be done online.
Exams will be graded within 7 days of the closing date.
MEET TWO FAMILIES (You will select ONE for your Exam):
The Garcias - Headed by a female/female same-sex couple (both are Hispanic) with two offspring, one child from each woman with the same sperm donor. The Garcias are working-class mothers, each having dropped out of high school. One obtained her GED. One child has also dropped out of school in the 10th grade and works part-time at Wal-Mart with a felony on her record. The other is a student at a local community college studying to become a nurse. One mother was recently arrested for allegedly selling marijuana in order to help pay the family bills.
The Stewarts - Headed by a male/female opposite-sex, mixed-race (he is black, she is white) couple with four offspring. He brings two kids from a previous marriage (both black). She brings two kids from a previous marriage (both white). The Stewarts are middle-class, each having graduated college with a 4-year degree. Two children are enrolled in prestigious universities, while the other two have extensive criminal records.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Write an essay with an Introduction, Body and Conclusion. Use "transition sentences" between paragraphs to link common ideas and concepts. Avoid "bullet-point" style paragraphs.
- Discuss how you see the lives of of the family you chose unfolding over the next several years.
- Explain how you envision these families coping and surviving in our society today. Be imaginative and create interesting scenarios for your family!
- Choose 10 sociological terms from the APPROVED LIST to discuss in your paper.
- BOLD your terms. This way we both know what terms you have selected.
- Provide the textbook definition of each of your 10 terms in "quotation marks" with the page number from the textbook. See example below.
- Restate each definition in your own words.
- Discuss how these terms relate to your family. See example below.
- Provide examples from your own experiences or from society in general to help support your ideas and the terms you have chosen.
- Double-Spaced.
- Standard 1” margins.
- 11”/12” font.
- Times/Times New Roman font.
- 6-8 pages.
- Students will Peer Review another student's paper for extra credit. Stay tuned for details.
- Study the attached Grading Scale for tips on how your exam will be graded!
IMPORTANT:
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DEADLINES:
Deadline #1: All students are REQUIRED to visit the Academic Readiness Center (Links to an external site.) with a COMPLETED FULL draft of your paper for feedback from the student assistants prior to the first deadline. Writing your paper the night before it is due will not work for this exam. Your DRAFT is due BEFORE FRI OCT 9 11 PM (Please plan ahead).Deadline #2: Your edited, revised, FINAL paper will be due on Canvas as a Word document ("Pages" cannot be accepted as your paper needs to be Peer Reviewed). The FINAL is due BEFORE WED OCT 14 11 PM. No Exceptions.
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WORKING WITH OTHERS: Feel free to communicate with each other, but it is expected that each student will write their own paper separate from other students. Copied work will result in a "0" for all parties.
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PLAGIARISM: Any material found "lifted" from the internet without appropriate citations will be grounds for a "0" and could result in further academic sanctioning. Your textbook is the only necessary source for this paper. Avoid "Googling" and "Dictionary.com", etc. Reference your textbook.
- LATE EXAMS: Late exams will not be accepted for any reason.
SAMPLE PARAGRAPH WITH TERM/DEFINITION/CITATION/EXAMPLE:
The sociological imagination can help people better understand that personal problems are often really social issues. The sociological imagination is defined as: "the capacity to think systematically about how many things we experience as personal problems are really social issues that are widely shared by others." (P.5) This means people often feel that things are their fault or that they are the only person with a particular difficulty in life. In reality, many other people may be experiencing the exact same thing. If so, then it might be less about an individual and more about the society or environment people are living in at any given time. For example, neither one of the Garcia mothers graduated from high school. Using the sociological imagination, we can begin to explore whether this is more of a personal problem on their part (laziness) or a social issue within their own community (poor school district). Their particular high school has a dropout rate over nearly 35% which might suggest there are both personal and social issues at play here. That is a lot of students who are dropping out and it can't all be because of laziness or poor attitudes.
Click here for list of APPROVED TERMS
Expected time to complete = 4-5+ hours.
Total points = 100.
Use critical thinking, be creative and put your sociological imaginations to work!