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Case: Start thinking about a topic for your problem analysis that you would like to explore in this course. Your topic should be something that interests you as you will be working with the topic for your upcoming assignments, including the final paper. It's best if your topic is related to your program (field of study). Looking at the research guide may give you some ideas.
To help you understand what you will be doing with this topic, read the following instructions that pertain to your final assignment which will be a problem analysis.
The final analysis project requires you to tackle a problem within your field of study by first exploring it, its causes, and its impacts. Then, if you want, you can recommend one or more practical solutions to solve the problem.
(For example, one student worked at a company where employee turnover was constant because the employees didn't feel valued, were bored at work, and felt disrespected by the employers. She proposed the employers institute a team policy with competitions for bonuses, prizes, vacation days, etc. as rewards for top team performance. She presented her idea and her company, and they actually used a revised version of it at her work, reducing their turnover rate by almost 50%.)
After deciding on the problem you wish to tackle, begin building questions about it. Your goal for the analysis is to answer the questions through your sources. Finding multiple angles and perspectives is ideal so that you explore those possibilities in the final paper before settling on your recommendation. Be sure to identify what is at stake.
Here are questions to help guide your analysis:
- What is the problem being addressed (explain, describe, and "prove" that it exists)?
- Who is affected by this problem?
- Why does this problem exist? (Identify the root causes.)
- Why does the problem persist? (Identify the major factors that contribute to the problem's ongoing presence.)
- What is at stake if the problem is not solved?