Human Service Social Work children and Families
ARGUMENT: Child protection and abusive homes
SOURCES:
Balsells, M. À., Pastor, C., Molina, M. C., Fuentes-Pelaez, N., & Vázquez, N. (2017). Understanding social support in reunification: The views of foster children, birth families and social workers. British Journal of Social Work, 47(3), 812-827.
Sawrikar, P. (2019). Child protection, domestic violence, and ethnic minorities: Narrative results from a mixed methods study in Australia. PLoS ONE, 14(12), e0226031. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A607540184/OVIC?u=nhc_main&sid=OVIC&xid=c86f003f
Preface to “How Should the Government Treat Single-Parent Families?” (2016). In M. Haerens (Ed.), Opposing Viewpoints. Single-Parent Families. Greenhaven Press.
ASSIGNMENT:
For this essay, you will identify an issue in your current major, you will then establish an argument and support that argument with research and relevant evidence.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
- Describe the argument to be addressed in your persuasive essay. Explain how the argument relates to your major, the major you are considering pursuing, or your field of work.
- Determine three key points that will be helpful in supporting your argument.
- Identify the audience who will be reading your essay. What potential challenges will you encounter in supporting your argument with this demographic?
- Establish a goal that you hope to accomplish with this essay. What will this essay need to be successful?
- List potential resources that could be used as supporting evidence for your argument, and provide a brief description of each and how they will reinforce your argument.
- Align key points of your argument with supporting resources for establishing an effective essay structure.
- Based on your argument, determine at what points in the essay integrating evidence would be most effective, and explain why.
- Describe a revision strategy that would be most effective while writing this essay. Why would this strategy be effective?