Apply strategies to write effective academic documents.

For this assessment, you will demonstrate your ability to write a formal academic essay that uses appropriately formal 3rd person language and that demonstrates your ability to establish and support a clear main point or thesis about a topic. You will also demonstrate your ability to paraphrase, incorporate, and cite relevant and reliable research information to support the ideas within your paper. You will be writing to and for an educated, academic audience.

DIRECTIONS:

Select a specific, relevant, researchable, and relatively recent change in your field of study. The change can be a positive or negative change, but it must be a change that has already occurred, rather than a change you would like to see happen. For example, one change in the field of education is the increase in the use of standardized testing; one change in the field of law enforcement is the increased use of police body cameras.

Then, establish a main point about this change, analyzing either why this change occurred or what effects it has had on a particular group or on the field of study itself (for example, what has the increased use of body cameras had on police officers’ relationship with the community). You should not argue for a change to occur, nor should you take a position in favor or against this change, nor should you offer a solution to a problem. Your goal is to objectively analyze the causes or already demonstrated effects of this change.

You must incorporate 3–4 relevant and reliable, peer-reviewed secondary sources and demonstrate the ability to paraphrase. Your Assessment must also give credit to the sources using APA format style expectations. Your submission should be 5–6 paragraphs long, or around 750–850 words.

Minimum Submission Requirements

Proper notification of any resubmission, repurposing, or reworking of prior work per the Purdue Global Student Coursework Resubmission, Repurposing, and Reworking Policy Resource.5–6 paragraphs (750–850 words)

Addresses cause or effect of a change

Does not take a position, write to persuade, or offer recommendations or solutions

Applies APA style

Incorporates 3–4 relevant and reliable secondary sources, cited in-text each time that the source is paraphrased, summarized, or quoted, as well as cited in a References page

My field of study is Health Information Management

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.