Topic: Research Outline

Choose two countries from different regions and governed by completely different political and cultural ideologies using the tables above. During the course of the semester, you will apply the concepts that you learn, to the two countries that you choose and explore the media/communication environment in these two countries. This will be presented as the final research essay. The research outline requires you to justify the choice of the two countries, based on previous study. The word limit is 1500 words.

The outline may detail (not in any particular order):
•    Skills and concepts learnt in the previous years of study relevant to the exploration of the media environment and policies in the two countries that you have chosen;
•    Any outside experience that has contributed to your interest. This could be an internship, work experience, social contact with people from the countries; travel to places in the countries; any academic or non-academic work that sparked an interest in the country;
•    Any independent reading that leads to an understanding;(Please note that non-academic works can be cited only to justify interest in the countries that have been chosen. This assessment is due in Week 7 by which time students are expected to have begun their reading and research);
•    An indication of how an understanding of the two countries’ media/communication environment will assist in future career paths;
•    The issues that affect media policy in the countries and the significance.

This is work submitted for assessment and requires references (academic material). Newspapers and online material can be used to support arguments, but the research outline cannot rest solely on them. A theoretical background and conceptual framework must be identified. Please note that ‘self-evaluation’ is but a small part of the outline and the outline needs more than personal thoughts and experiences. The above points are more in the nature of a guideline and are not to be treated as questions to be answered in any order

Research Outline

Topic: The effect of crack cocaine on African American babies of the 1980’s and were are they today?

Directions: Develop a APA style Outline for Topic

State Thesis
Write an outline using these techniques
-Parallelism
-Coordination
-Subordination
-Division

The purpose is writing about topic, achieving topic outline, and topic purpose and subject.

Also, include the following:
1. Introduction on the topic’s interest, researching and description of the problem (referenced from other sources). Be sure and indicate why the research is important and how empirical research can contribute to the social work, psychology, and counseling profession.

2. Write one or two research questions based on the problem statement.

3. Specify one or two hypothesis that follow logically from the research question

The results at this point are inconclusive because at a later time more information will be adding up to a 12 page research conclusion

Also, Include the following:
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT:

Problem Statement: Think about issues or problems that may lend themselves to research. Try to think of topics that meet the following criteria:

1) The problem is important to a given X that you might be interested in;
2) The problem will improve the knowledge base for social work, psychology and counseling practice in that X;
3) The problem will contribute to making a more effective research-based practice

Also, Include:
Research question(s): Think about an important question/s based on the identified topic. Work on wording the question in a way that simply and clearly identifies the variables interested for a future study.

Hypothesis: An hypothesis is a statement about a relationship between two or more variables that is likely to be true based on available evidence. It should be logically derived from the research question.

Here include:
Written assignment (1-2 paragraphs):
1. Introduction on the topic including interested in researching and description of the problem (referenced from other sources). Be sure and indicate why the research is important and how empirical research can contribute to the social work, psychology, and counseling profession

2. Write one or two research questions based on the problem statement.

3. Specify one or two hypothesis that follow logically from the research question.

Scholarly resources that are of interest from online websites and search fields:

Reinarman, C., & Levine, H. G. (2004). Crack in the Rearview Mirror: Deconstructing Drug War Mythology. Social Justice, (1/2 (95-96). 182. Retrieved from http://proxy.tamuc.edu:8017/eds/detail/detail?vid=13&sid=91398f6c-8e95-4280-af87-214da1a54686%40sessionmgr4005&hid=4110&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=edsjsr.29768248&db=edsjsr

Logan, E. (1999). The Wrong Race, Committing Crime, Doing Drugs, and Maladjusted for Motherhood: The Nation’s Fury over ‘Crack Babies’. Social Justice, (1 (75). 115. Retrieved from http://proxy.tamuc.edu:8017/eds/detail/detail?vid=16&sid=91398f6c-8e95-4280-af87-214da1a54686%40sessionmgr4005&hid=4110&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=edsjsr.29767115&db=edsjsr

The Developmental Cycle of a Drug Epidemic: The Cocaine Smoking Epidemic of 1981–1991

Hamid, A. (1992). The developmental cycle of a drug epidemic: The cocaine smoking epidemic of 1981–1991. Journal Of Psychoactive Drugs, 24(4), 337-348. doi:10.1080/02791072.1992.10471658. Retrieved from http://proxy.tamuc.edu:8061/eds/detail/detail?vid=1&sid=8ba304b3-9805-41fe-a1a3-90d952a8b296%40sessionmgr111&hid=122&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=1993-29862-001&db=psyh

http://proxy.tamuc.edu:8100/doi/pdf/10.1080/02791072.1992.10471658#.VekwOxtRE-0

Smoked Cocaine: Patterns of Use and Pulmonary Consequences

Khalsa, M. E., Tashkin, D. P., & Perrochet, B. (1992). Smoked cocaine: Patterns of use and pulmonary consequences. Journal Of Psychoactive Drugs, 24(3), 265-272. doi:10.1080/02791072.1992.1047164. Retrieved from http://proxy.tamuc.edu:8061/eds/detail/detail?vid=4&sid=8ba304b3-9805-41fe-a1a3-90d952a8b296%40sessionmgr111&hid=122&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=1993-18002-001&db=psyh

Minkler, M., Roe, K. M., & Robertson-Beckley, R. J. (1994). Raising grandchildren from crack-cocaine households: effects on family and friendship ties of African-American women. The American Journal Of Orthopsychiatry, 64(1), 20-29. Retrieved from http://proxy.tamuc.edu:8061/eds/detail/detail?vid=21&sid=8ba304b3-9805-41fe-a1a3-90d952a8b296%40sessionmgr111&hid=122&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=8147424&db=cmedm

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Research Outline

Topic: The effect of crack cocaine on African American babies of the 1980’s and were are they today?

Directions: Develop a APA style Outline for Topic

State Thesis
Write an outline using these techniques
-Parallelism
-Coordination
-Subordination
-Division

The purpose is writing about topic, achieving topic outline, and topic purpose and subject.

Also, include the following:
1. Introduction on the topic’s interest, researching and description of the problem (referenced from other sources). Be sure and indicate why the research is important and how empirical research can contribute to the social work, psychology, and counseling profession.

2. Write one or two research questions based on the problem statement.

3. Specify one or two hypothesis that follow logically from the research question

The results at this point are inconclusive because at a later time more information will be adding up to a 12 page research conclusion

Also, Include the following:
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT:

Problem Statement: Think about issues or problems that may lend themselves to research. Try to think of topics that meet the following criteria:

1) The problem is important to a given X that you might be interested in;
2) The problem will improve the knowledge base for social work, psychology and counseling practice in that X;
3) The problem will contribute to making a more effective research-based practice

Also, Include:
Research question(s): Think about an important question/s based on the identified topic. Work on wording the question in a way that simply and clearly identifies the variables interested for a future study.

Hypothesis: An hypothesis is a statement about a relationship between two or more variables that is likely to be true based on available evidence. It should be logically derived from the research question.

Here include:
Written assignment (1-2 paragraphs):
1. Introduction on the topic including interested in researching and description of the problem (referenced from other sources). Be sure and indicate why the research is important and how empirical research can contribute to the social work, psychology, and counseling profession

2. Write one or two research questions based on the problem statement.

3. Specify one or two hypothesis that follow logically from the research question.

Scholarly resources that are of interest from online websites and search fields:

Reinarman, C., & Levine, H. G. (2004). Crack in the Rearview Mirror: Deconstructing Drug War Mythology. Social Justice, (1/2 (95-96). 182. Retrieved from http://proxy.tamuc.edu:8017/eds/detail/detail?vid=13&sid=91398f6c-8e95-4280-af87-214da1a54686%40sessionmgr4005&hid=4110&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=edsjsr.29768248&db=edsjsr

Logan, E. (1999). The Wrong Race, Committing Crime, Doing Drugs, and Maladjusted for Motherhood: The Nation’s Fury over ‘Crack Babies’. Social Justice, (1 (75). 115. Retrieved from http://proxy.tamuc.edu:8017/eds/detail/detail?vid=16&sid=91398f6c-8e95-4280-af87-214da1a54686%40sessionmgr4005&hid=4110&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=edsjsr.29767115&db=edsjsr

The Developmental Cycle of a Drug Epidemic: The Cocaine Smoking Epidemic of 1981–1991

Hamid, A. (1992). The developmental cycle of a drug epidemic: The cocaine smoking epidemic of 1981–1991. Journal Of Psychoactive Drugs, 24(4), 337-348. doi:10.1080/02791072.1992.10471658. Retrieved from http://proxy.tamuc.edu:8061/eds/detail/detail?vid=1&sid=8ba304b3-9805-41fe-a1a3-90d952a8b296%40sessionmgr111&hid=122&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=1993-29862-001&db=psyh

http://proxy.tamuc.edu:8100/doi/pdf/10.1080/02791072.1992.10471658#.VekwOxtRE-0

Smoked Cocaine: Patterns of Use and Pulmonary Consequences

Khalsa, M. E., Tashkin, D. P., & Perrochet, B. (1992). Smoked cocaine: Patterns of use and pulmonary consequences. Journal Of Psychoactive Drugs, 24(3), 265-272. doi:10.1080/02791072.1992.1047164. Retrieved from http://proxy.tamuc.edu:8061/eds/detail/detail?vid=4&sid=8ba304b3-9805-41fe-a1a3-90d952a8b296%40sessionmgr111&hid=122&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=1993-18002-001&db=psyh

Minkler, M., Roe, K. M., & Robertson-Beckley, R. J. (1994). Raising grandchildren from crack-cocaine households: effects on family and friendship ties of African-American women. The American Journal Of Orthopsychiatry, 64(1), 20-29. Retrieved from http://proxy.tamuc.edu:8061/eds/detail/detail?vid=21&sid=8ba304b3-9805-41fe-a1a3-90d952a8b296%40sessionmgr111&hid=122&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=8147424&db=cmedm

Please reach out to me I am available by phone.