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Prepare: The topic of your essay needs to be a global societal problem from the following list: adult illiteracy, funding for General Education vs STEM in primary and secondary schools, minimum wage, oceans desertification, overcoming the digital divide, refugee (escaping persecution, war, or death) crises, species extinctions (modern), tax havens, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), universal statement of human rights (pick one), airport security, or wealth disparity. Review this GEN499 Sample Final Paper
Guide for additional guidance on the expectations of this assignment.
Reflect: Based on the topic that you have chosen, you will need to use critical thinking skills to thoroughly understand how this topic can be a global societal problem and determine some logical solution(s) to the problem.
Write: This Final Argumentative Essay will present research relating the critical thinker to the modern, globalized world. In this assignment, you need to address the following items in separate sections with new headings for each:
- Identify the global societal problem within the introductory paragraph and conclude with a thesis statement that states your proposed solution(s) to the problem. For guidance on how to construct a good introduction paragraph, please review the Introduction Paragraph Guideline (Links to an external site.) from the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
- Describe background information on how that problem developed or came into existence. Show why this is a societal problem, and provide perspectives from multiple disciplines or populations so that you fully represent what different parts of society have to say about this issue.
- Construct an argument supporting your proposed solution(s). Be sure to consider multiple disciplines or populations so that your solution shows that multiple parts of society will benefit from this solution. Provide evidence from multiple scholarly sources as evidence that your proposed solution is viable.
- Interpret statistical data from at least three, peer-reviewed scholarly sources. Do this by discussing the validity, reliability, and any biases; identifying the strengths and weaknesses of these sources; and pointing out limitations of current research and attempting to indicate areas for future research. You may even use visual representations such as graphs or charts to explain statistics from sources. Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from your solution. Be sure to provide at least one positive ethical outcome as well as at least one negative ethical outcome that could result from your solution, and explain at least two ethical issues related to each of those outcomes. It’s important to consider all of society.
- Develop a conclusion as the last paragraph(s) of the essay, starting with rephrasing your thesis statement and then presenting the major points of the topic and how they support your argument. For guidance on how to write a good conclusion paragraph, please review the Conclusion Paragraph Guideline (Links to an external site.) from the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
The Final Argumentative Essay
- Must be 3,300 – 3,900 words in length (approximately between 10 – 12 pages; excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style (Links to an external site.) as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
- Must include a separate title page (Links to an external site.) with the following:
- Title of paper
- Student’s name
- Course name and number
- Instructor’s name
- Date submitted
- Running header with page numbers
- Must include in-text citations (Links to an external site.) from at least 10 scholarly sources. Be sure to integrate your research (Links to an external site.) rather than simply inserting it.
- Must document all sources in APA style as outlined here (Links to an external site.) and here (Links to an external site.).
- Must have no more than 15% quoted material in the body of your essay based on the Turnitin report. Reference list will be excluded from the Turnitin originality score.
- Must include a separate reference page (Links to an external site.) that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
- Source Document Requirements:
- Multimedia sources (such as videos) may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. If multimedia sources are used, they must be authored and distributed by credible sources, such as universities, law schools, medical schools, or professors, or found in the Ashford University Library.
- Government sources may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. Examples include whitehouse.gov, state.gov, usa.gov, cdc.gov, etc. These websites can be used to make a stronger point about your proposed soluation within the argument.
- Where print documents are used for source materials, those must be peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles, and academically published books. Popular media sources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows, etc.) must not be used. Materials from advocacy groups (e.g., Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, National Organization for Women, etc.) must not be used.
- Sites such as ProCon.org and Wikipedia must not be used.
- Religious texts must not be used.
Good Critical Thinking Tips:
- Your paper should include academic sources that explain multiple sides of the issue.
- Your interpretations of the evidence should be objective and state the conclusions and theses presented in the evidence clearly and fairly.
- Your paper should place the various forms of evidence in relation to one another and demonstrate why one form or perspective is stronger than the other positions that one could take on the issue.
- Your paper should point out the limitations of current evidence and attempt to indicate areas for future research.
- Writing Tools:
- Before you submit your written assignment, you are encouraged to review the The Grammarly Guide: How to Set Up & Use Grammarly tutorial (Links to an external site.), set up a Grammarly account (if you have not already done so), and use Grammarly to review a rough draft of your assignment. Then carefully review all issues identified by Grammarly and revise your work as needed.
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COMPLETE. Kindly confirm the FINAL paper below. Let me know in case of anything
Running head: GLOBAL SOCIETAL PROBLEM
Overcoming the Digital Divide
Name of the Student
Name of Course
Course Number
Name of the Instructor
Date Submitted
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GLOBAL SOCIETAL PROBLEM
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Overcoming Digital Divide in Emerging Economies
Introduction
Until the 1990s when the internet and digitalization started to be commercialized
worldwide, the discussion on the way to bridge the digital gap has attracted the attention of the
IT experts and gurus globally (Acılar, 2011). The digital gap deters various societies from
making use of the full gains that the communication, as well as the information technologies,
have the capacity to deliver or offer. Even though the number of citizens of America with the
access to the internet and computers keep growing on a daily basis, the digital gap also keeps
soaring at a high rate. The irony of it all is that a section of society that includes learned Asian
Pacific and White Islanders households, the higher income earners who are already connected to
the internet are now adopting modern and advanced technologies faster and are even connecting
more than the individuals without access to the internet at all (Armenta, et al, 2012). This makes
the group with traditionally low rates for computers as well as internet accessibility to continue
lagging too much behind. In this context, the activities to promote physical accessibility to the
computers and internet remains necessary, even though they are not enough in ensuring that
there is inclusivity within the society regarding the connectivity of the internet. For this reason,
outstanding leadership is required at both the local and international levels in ensuring more
coordinated efforts among the players on the ground, local authorities as well as the governments
(Chelliah & Clarke, 2011). Subsequently, maintenance of the status quo, when technology
gradually affects each economic sector, could significantly broaden the gap or the divide within
national territories and across the world. In this report, I shall review on the digital disparity in
the emerging economies with an intention to explain the way the connectivity of the internet
fosters efficiency, innovation and economic and social inclusivity (Ferro, 2009). Moreover, the
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report intends to examine the social conditions that need to be put into consideration and the
reason why the physical internet access is not sufficient in capturing all the digital technology
benefits (Acılar, 2011). The report shall also offer recommendations of how to ensure that the
unconnected population gets connected to the internet access.
Background Information
The rapid developments and advancements in digital technologies commonly known as
the information and communication technology (ICT) in a deeper meaning, has widely reshaped
the daily activities and the way people carry out their businesses in the entire world (Acılar,
2011). The connectivity to the internet has become one of the major vital and fundamental
infrastructures all over the world. According to the 2014 World Economic Forum, every extra
ten percent internet connections can result in a 1.2% per capita increase in the growth of the
gross domestic product (GDP) in emerging economies. The digital divide or gap that refers to the
disparity in access and usage of digital services and infrastructure between geographical regions,
businesses, individuals or households, remains critically broad for the emerging economies.
More particularly, digital divide affects specific segments of the population, for example, rural
communities and low-income earners, as a result of lack digital skills, affordability and digital
infrastructure (Armenta, et al, 2012). Based on this background, this sub-topic identifies four
main challenges discussed below:Insufficient digital services and infrastructure
Inadequate digital services and infrastructure include the inability to internet or network
devices, applications, software as well as the internet connectivity. A recent research (Facebook,
2016) outlines that in the emerging economies, particularly in remote or rural regions, more 4
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billion people are still not connected to the internet networks (Chelliah & Clarke, 2011).
Furthermore, there are disparities in the access to high-speed internet connectivity which have
significant access to media like live news streaming. Recent statistics indicate that fifty-one
percent of Hispanics and 49% of African-Americans can connect to the high-internet networks at
their homes in comparison to 66% of Caucasians. For this reason, reducing the digital disparity
needs provisions of adequate services and infrastructure in the third world nations.
Inadequate affordable network applications, services...
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