- Social Problems MAPA-5345-011/Social Problems MAPA-5345-010

Topic – Public Housing

Objectives:

• To learn to find and analyze research to assist in examination of critical social problems.
• To learn to apply research to the development of responses to critical social problems.
• To learn and develop skills for writing scholarly papers in the APA style.

Article:

• These papers will be written on an article of your choosing on the assigned topic.
• Must be from a Peer Reviewed Journal (research).
• Research* what is considered a “Peer Reviewed Journal”.
• Article must present a research study with findings applicable to your topic.

*There are several search engines that focus on academic (scholarly) writing –I like “Google Scholar”

Find 5 articles from your research that fit the requirements of the short paper above.

• You will list the articles in the bibliography of your Short Paper using the appropriate APA style.
• Select one of these articles about which you write you Short Paper for submission.
• Follow the Short Paper Instructions in the “Writing Tools” module.

Paper:

• 2 pages in length–the goal is to be clear and concise.
• 1 inch margins –top, bottom, left, and right
• 5 spacing
• 11 point
• Calibri font