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Do some research and analysis them. 200 words for each response. Topic can be human right, or jail or something else. Almost half of them will be citation so just need to write a few words. writing_requirements.docx Unformatted Attachment Preview Developing a Topic (entry: 800 word minimum; each peer response: 200 word minimum) (1) research and deploy various types of sources to describe, contextualize, and analyze a significant contemporary political/social/cultural problem; (2) summarize and evaluate conversations and debates happening between credible scholars, thinkers, and organizations about your topic. Before you can begin to think about critical evaluation, you must work, as all professional researchers do, to acquire a broad understanding of the topic as a contemporary problem. To locate a suitable topic for research, you can browse the following: https://www.sentencingproject.org/ https://www.brennancenter.org/ https://www.prisonpolicy.org/ https://www.themarshallproject.org/ Some relevant topics (that you will need to fine tune) for this course include: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Public Defense Plea Bargaining Prosecutorial Discretion Life Without Parole Immigrant detainees Prison Education Felon disenfranchisement Militarization of Police Criminalization of the Homeless California’s Prison Realignment California Prison conditions Solitary Confinement Children and Families of the Incarcerated Your first task is simply to develop a basic vocabulary for defining the topic and the problem associated with it. Begin to locate and describe the key terms and key players of your mass incarceration related topic: the individuals and communities affected by the problem, the depth of these effects, the policies, practices, and perceptions that occasioned the problem, and the vocabulary used by the experts to describe it. Youll begin by locating, reading, finding key terms, summarizing, and evaluating some credible sources from advocacy organizations, academics, and journalists. To ensure that your source is credible, you might initially avoid a broad Google search, and just use the search engines within the sites offered to you below or on the Master Source Material list. Once you find an assortment of sources, do the following while reading: Look for problems as you read. Make a document that allows you to cut and paste key passages and to make notes on the source as you read. You should do this sort of organized note-taking for every source so that you dont have to waste time trying to find information you read and remember but later forgot where to find it. 1. Record a minimum of TEN sources you found for the topic in 8th edition MLA formatting, If you dont know how to properly use MLA, consult the Online Writing Lab at Purdue: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/ (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) Be sure you use a variety of genres from experts and journalists. Consult AGWR Chapter 4 on finding sources. 2. Under the MLA citation of each of FIVE sources, include a paragraph length annotation that includes the following: --the author’s profession (e.g., “Journalist Sam Lebovic argues that…” and/or particular area of focus (e.g., “In his capacity as Legal Director of the ACLU, David Cole argues that…”) --a brief description of the topic or problem the author addresses and, if applicable, his or her argument. If no argument, describe the sources purpose. --if applicable, a description of key pieces of evidence the author uses to advance his or her claims, using key phrases from the source (integrate quotations; do not quote entire sentences) --if applicable, a description of any counterarguments or obstacles to the author’s argument(s) --a description of how that purpose connects to your project. To evaluate your annotated bibliography, go to the annotated bibliography checklist and FAQs You can also look at samples and other how-tos in the File/Annotated Bibliography Folder under Samples. 3. Use the following questions to compose a 1-2 page (double spaced) description of the details you have found so far: Mass incarceration issues fall broadly into THREE categories: Before, During, and After Incarceration. All of these categories overlap, but it is important for you in the beginning to be as specific and focused as possible. In these paragraphs, you should use the research you have done thus far to define and describe the problem--what it is, how it works, who it affects, how it affects them, and why. To the best of your ability, use as many dates, locations, names as you can. Pointing to data you’ve found is good; pointing to laws, policies, and practices is also good. Be as specific and organized as possible. 4. Include a list of key research terms: Good keywords are specific: they involve legislation, policy, court cases, organizations and government institutions, names of important figures. Keywords should always help you to find relevant, related sources. Also, keep a separate file for key terms, dates, policies, events, people, etc that you find in the articles you read that will help you to develop a vocabulary for discussing the specific policies, legislation, and/or other key players and related issues. Example: Good key research terms: First Step Act “HB 57 New Mexico” “Shelby County v. Holder” “United States v. City of Ferguson” “Terry v. Ohio” “California Juvenile Justice Division” “Life without Parole, 2019 Poor key research terms: mass incarceration felon Jim Crow “life without parole” 5. Include at least THREE specific fact-based questions that you want for your research to answer for you. Good fact-based questions (note that good questions show an attempt to establish facts not confirm opinions): What is felon disenfranchisement? Who is Eric Holder? Who is Jeff Sessions? Can children be put in adult prisons? What states have the death penalty? Which states are the most “tough on crime”? Which states have the highest prison population and the most prisoners? Why is Gideon v. Wainwright an important Supreme Court case? What is the connection between mass incarceration and undocumented immigrants? Poor questions (note that poor questions are opinionated, riddled with assumptions and generalizations): Why does Trump hate immigrants? Do people who commit violent crimes deserve to be in jail forever? Do people deserve the death penalty? Do felons deserve to vote? ... Purchase answer to see full attachment