Topic 1: Researching Your Sources There are all kinds of advocacy. Your goal may be to raise the profile of an issue, to provide for the needs of a...

Topic 1: Researching Your Sources

There are all kinds of advocacy. Your goal may be to raise the profile of an issue, to provide for the needs of a segment of your community, to protect citizens from physical or economic harm, to stem a disease before it becomes epidemic in the area, or to expose and oust a corrupt official, among others. You may be concerned with human services, health care, education, the environment, economic development, political issues, human rights, or the overall physical, social, and economic health of your community. You may be trying to influence legislators and other policy makers, to hold officials and corporations accountable for their actions, to change the behavior or methods of health and human service providers, or to increase cultural awareness and competence among all members of the community.

B Topic 2: Determining Your Research Question

Most written assignments at Kaplan can be best approached by determining one or more "research questions" that can be derived from the assignment instructions and grading rubric.

Consider this possible assignment scenario:

A large law office has expressed a need to work differently with one another. Staff (predominantly lawyers and investigators) feel as though they are so busy doing their work that they often lose track of other projects either in their units or across the organization.

One strategy to connect a diverse and busy office is to develop a tool that is easily accessible, and where stakeholders can work together to develop ideas and projects.

What IT-related research questions might be drawn from this scenario?