Assignment: Research Investigation Progress Guidelines

Overview: Throughout Theme: Exploring Social Science Issues, you have been guided through work on Project One (a research investigation), which you will continue to work on in Theme: Performing the Research Investigation and Theme: Tailoring the Message to an Audience and will formally submit to your instructor at the end of Week 5. This assignment provides you with an important opportunity to get valuable instructor feedback on the progress you are making and to ensure you are on the right track for your later submission.

Prompt: Throughout Theme: Exploring Social Science Issues, you have explored social science issues for further investigation and examined social science principles that relate to issues of interest to you. Specifically, in this assignment, you will submit the Project One elements listed below for review by your instructor.

In Theme: Exploring Social Science Issues, learning block 2-2 (page 4), you began working on the following section of the prompt:

I. Introduction

A. Describe the issue in the social sciences that you have selected to investigate. Why is this issue significant?

In Theme: Exploring Social Science Issues, learning block 2-3 (page 2), you completed the following work:

II. Body

A. Identify the social science principles that apply to your issue. In other words, which principles of social science apply to the issue you selected?

B. Explain how the principles you identified apply to your issue. In other words, how are the social science principles you identified relevant to your issue?

Note that the numbering included above directly aligns with the numbering of these elements as they are presented in the Project One Guidelines and Rubric document.