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Prepare: To help with the preparation of your annotated bibliography, review the following tutorials and resources from the Ashford Writing Center:
- Introduction Paragraph Guide
- Thesis Statement tutorial
- Annotated Bibliography tutorial
- Sample Annotated Bibliography
- Evaluating Sources
Reflect: Reflect back on the Week Two Discussion in which you shared with the class the global societal issue that you would like to further address. Explore critical insights that were shared by your peers and/or your instructor on the topic chosen and begin your search for scholarly sources with those insights in mind.
Write: For this assignment, review the Annotated Bibliography Formatting Guidelines and address the following prompts:
- Introductory Paragraph to Topic: Refer to the Final Argumentative Essay guidelines for your topic selection. Write an introductory paragraph with at least 150 words, which clearly explains the topic, the importance of further research, and ethical implications.
- Thesis statement: Write a direct and concise thesis statement, which will become the solution to the problem that you will argue or prove in the Week Five Final Argumentative Essay. A thesis statement should be a declarative statement that makes one point in 25 words or less. The thesis statement must appear at the end of the introductory paragraph.
- Annotated Bibliography: Develop an annotated bibliography to indicate the quality of the sources you have read. For each annotation, you need to summarize in your own words how the source contributes to the solution of the global societal issue. Your annotation should be one to two paragraphs long (150 words or more) and fully address the purpose, content, evidence, and relation to other sources you found on this topic. The annotated bibliography must include no less than five scholarly sources that will be used to support the major points of the Final Argumentative Essay. Critical thinking skills need to be demonstrated by accurately interpreting evidence used to support various positions of the topic.
The Introduction, Thesis Statement, and Annotated Bibliography Assignment
- Must be 1,000 – 1,250 words in length
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: GLOBAL SOCIETAL ISSUE
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Adult Literacy
Name
Institution Affiliation
GLOBAL SOCIETAL ISSUE
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Adult Literacy
Introduction
In this paper, there will be the description of the adult literacy as the topic of choice in the
global societal issue. According to Adult Literacy Act characterizes the literacy of adult as an
individual capability of peruse, compose and at the same time, be in a position of communicating
in English. It remains to be the process at levels of capability important to work in a group and at
the same time, the public areas. According to the United Nations, Social and Cultural
Organizations (UNESCO), it characterizes literacy as the capacity to recognize, comprehend,
make and utilize composed materials connected with changing settings. Therefore, literacy in
adult remains a global issue that needs to be addressed to ensure that we are living in a literate
world. In this paper, there will be the description of the thesis of the topic and at the same time,
the various annotations that are related to the topic.
Thesis
Achieving that higher development will require cautious consideration and vivacious
advancement to be in a position of expanding the quality and amount of the human capital.
Annotated Bibliography
Burgess, S. R., Hecht, S. A., & Lonigan, C. J. (2002). Relations of the home literacy
environment (HLE) to the development of reading‐related abilities: An one‐year
longitudinal study. Reading Research Quarterly, 37(4), 408-426.
According to the research that was conducted by Burgess, Hecht and at the same time,
Lonigan, there is the need of relation between home literacy and the development of the
GLOBAL SOCIETAL ISSUE
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reading-related abilities. Poor health literacy remains to be a boun...
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