Malaysian Flight 370
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• For this assignment, please identify a social problem of interest. The social problem you identify for this assignment will be used for the
remainder of your assignments. In thinking about the problem, think about a social condition that is currently being addressed or a social condition
that has not received much attention or a social condition that has a gap in service provision. Using current events as an example, school shootings
is a social problem. Another example, food insecurity.
For this assignment, you are to search the literature to better understand your identified social problem and present your findings in an annotated
bibliography. Your annotated bibliography will have three areas: social problem definitions, human service program performance/measurement,
assumptions about the causes of the problems. You can find more information about these areas in your MK text on pages 28-37. For this assignment,
you will read theoretical articles and empirical articles (i.e., those that are testing and reporting the results of an intervention). For each
section, you are to read and write up a summary of 3 articles. Please note, you may only use peer reviewed journal articles (no websites, government
reports, organizational reports, etc.) You will later use your annotated bibliography, along with other resources, to write the literature review
section of your final report. For this assignment, you will need a total of 9 articles. Please be sure to read the example of an annotated
bibliography–you will have to write concisely!
So your paper should look like this:
Section 1: Definition of the Social Problem Articles
Section 2: Human service program performance/measurement Articles
Section 3: Assumptions about the causes of the problem Articles
Below are links to two resources that will help you complete this assignment.
http://library.northeastern.edu/find/resources/article-databases
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/
Please include/use:
1. Cover page
2. Grammar
3. Page numbers
4. PDF your assignment
5. APA formatting (social science folks use APA and not MLA).
Required Textbook(s)/Materials
1.Martin, L. & Kettner, P. (2010). Measuring the Performance of Human Service Programs, 2nd Edition. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publication.
2.Fowler, Floyd. (1995). Improving survey questions: Design and evaluation. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publication.
*I would like for my topic to be on the missing Malaysian flight they never found. What could have been done differently? What tactics were used
incorrectly? You get the idea…If you have a better topic..let me know…