You will plan, write, and revise a short narrative story that explores an appropriate theme and is at least three pages long. Be sure to follow the steps of the writing process to ensure a polished final draft. (double spaced is okay)You must complete parts A, B, and C to receive credit.What is a narrative story?When writing a narrative essay, one might think of it as telling a story. These stories are often anecdotal, experiential, and personal—allowing you to express yourself in a creative and, quite often, moving way. Here are some guidelines for writing a narrative story: Your story should include all the parts of a story.This means that you must include an introduction, plot, characters, setting, climax, and conclusion. You will also need to include dialogue.The story should have a purpose.Make a point! Think of this as the thesis of your story. If there is no point to what you are narrating, why narrate it at all?The story should be written from a clear point of view.It is quite common for narrative essays to be written from the standpoint of the author; however, this is not the sole perspective to be considered. Creativity in narrative essays oftentimes manifests itself in the form of authorial perspective.Use clear and concise language throughout the story.Much like the descriptive essay, narratives are effective when the language is carefully, particularly, and artfully chosen. Use specific language to evoke specific emotions and senses in the reader.The use of the first person pronoun ‘I’ is welcomed.Do not abuse this guideline! Though it is welcomed it is not necessary—nor should it be overused for lack of clear diction.As always, be organized!Have a clear introduction that sets the tone for the remainder of the story. Do not leave the reader guessing about the purpose of your narrative. Remember, you are in control of the story, so guide it where you desire (just make sure your audience can follow your lead).Part A - Outlining Using your notes during the brainstorming process, begin outlining as you develop the structure and elements of your story. Outlining helps organize and develop your characters and plot. As you form your outline, write down the order of events as you see them. Remember, your short narrative should be at least five pages in length and should discuss a consistent theme throughout. Writing a story is a fluid process, so you may notice that your initial plan changes periodically as you outline and draft your story. QUESTIONANSWERIntroduction - how will you start your story?Plot - include the elements of plotExposition (beginning)Rising ActionClimaxFalling ActionDenouement (resolution)Characters - who will be the characters in your story? Setting - Where does your story take place?Events - Place the events, in order, as bullet pointsEnding - How does the story end? What was the “point”? Part B - Drafting One way to create a story is to build your narrative from your outline. To develop your story, create a rough draft based on your brainstorming notes and outlines. Take the events noted in your outline and develop those points into fuller narrative forms. As you build each point, begin to piece each event together into a broader story. Drafts do not have to be the complete story - maybe you don’t have dialogue, or a fully formed introduction! This should be a place for you to turn Part A into paragraphs, not where you try to write out your full story!!!Type the draft of your story in the space provided. You will be expected to edit and revise this story in the next part. If there is no difference between part B and part C, your activity will be returned until revision has taken place! DRAFT:Part C Revising, Proofreading, and Editing After drafting your story, revise your initial drafts to clarify:your thematic visioncharacter development the cohesion between ideas As you read through your drafts, consider how you can improve each section of your plot structure, such as the rising action, the climax, and/or the resolution. In a separate Google Doc, revise your work for cohesion and clarity. Proofread your work and remove grammatical or syntactical errors, such as problems with spelling, fragment sentences, or consistency. After revising, proofreading, and editing, develop a final draft that you are confident portrays the theme, meaning, and characters correctly. Include the link to your final draft in the box below. MAKE SURE THAT YOU “SHARE” IT AND THAT ANYONE WITH THE LINK CAN VIEW!!!:LINK:

SOCIAL PROBLEMS VISUAL/PHOTO ESSAY PROJECT Images have been presented throughout your text to capture the human experience of social problems. The photos help to illustrate specific issues and have provided you with an opportunity to reflect about social problems, particularly those affecting you and your community. Now you will have the opportunity to construct your own visual essay. Instructions This assignment offers you an opportunity to create your own visual essay to capture and reflect one specific social problem. For this exercise, you will need to select a series of 10 photos that document/illustrate a particular social problem. You may choose the social problem you will focus on for this assignment. You will discuss how you define the problem (refer to chapter 1 in your textbook) as well as present images that illustrate the social problem. The photos used for this assignment can be collected in several ways:  You may not shoot your own photos for this project or use personal photos.  You may use photos through published sources (e.g., books).  You may also search websites for photos. (google images, corbis.com, ditto.com, etc… Please note: You must document where you obtained the photos by providing source, ID number (if available), photographer (if known) and publisher/website address. Each of the 10 photo slides should also contain the following information: Title: Original assigned by photographer or assigned by student Date of photograph: Or “Date Unknown” if not provided Name of photographer: Or “Photographer Unknown” if not provided Complete Source Information: Web address or other Brief statement about the significance of the image as it relates to and/or illustrates the social problem. How does the image connect to or show example of the problem? What caused you to choose this image as an example of the problem? No more than two (2) slides may be used per photo, if necessary. The photo and required information must fit on one or two slides only. The final product of the project should be a power point presentation of no less than 13 and no more than 24 slides as follows: Slide one (1 slide): Title (the social problem you have chosen to focus on) Your name and student ID number (no photo) Next slide(s) (1 or 2 slides): The Social Problem (no photo) On no more than two slides, discuss the problem by clearly addressing each of the following questions. What is the social problem? Why is it of interest to you or why did you choose to examine this problem? How have you defined it as a problem (who is impacted by it, how are they impacted, is it clearly a public issue or personal trouble?) Why is it something that should be of interest to sociologists and the public in general? Photo slide(s) (10 – 20 slides): Ten images (no more/no less) should be used within the presentation. A second slide may be used if all required information will not fit on first. If two slides are used, the image should appear on the first. Final Slide (1 slide): Conclusion A brief statement of conclusion should be provided to wrap up your essay. The 100 points available for this assignment will be awarded as follows: The social problem and conclusion slides 30pts 10 photos (1 pt each) 10pts Source Information for each photo (2pts each) 20pts Statement of significance (4pts each) 40 pts Total points for presentation 100 ptsNote: All of these instructions are also attached as a PDF for easy reading and navigation.

Question CXU6A Write and explanation of the difference between collecting data using individual interviews and a focus group (e.g., intent, selecting participants, conducting the interview or focus group) Given the topic you are currently using for your research, would you consider using a focus group for your study? Why or why not? Question CXU6B Review the Introduction to Coding and From Content to Coding media programs in the Learning Resources. Refer back to your observational field notes from Scholars of Change videos. From the remaining videos, choose a different Scholars of Change video and refer to your notes from your observation for this Discussion. Begin to code the transcript and the observational field notes of the Scholar of Change video you chose. (Note: You will only need one or two codes for this Discussion, although more are acceptable.) Write a brief description of the video you chose. Next, include an example of one or two codes and provide quotes from your notes or transcript to support your example. Finally, explain your reasoning for this coding. Question CXU6C Consider your role as a qualitative researcher and begin writing Part 2 of the Assignment. Part 2: Role of the Researcher Review your analytic memos, field notes, etc., written during each aspect of the data collection process, and examine your role and experience and how that is shaping your experience (reflexivity). Describe the roles you are portraying in this research effort (i.e., a graduate student, classmate, interviewer, etc.). Identify any ethical issues that could or did arise during the data collection processes (i.e., these could include doing a study within one’s own work environment, conflict of interest, or power differentials).