Migrant workers have always played a vital role in the US economy, so they should not be treated as illegal or undeserving individuals. Most of them are competent, qualified workers who pay taxes and contribute to American well-being. Questions to consider when writing the paper i. How has the issue pertaining to race or immigration been addressed using one specific public policy/program? ii. Has the issue you selected been successfully addressed? iii. What are some of the challenges of implementing the policy/program in your city? Use any city in Connecticut iv. What are some possible solutions to these challenges? v. Utilize information from week 7s readings and any other articles to support your essay. Chapter 6 and 7 Robert Inman – Making Cities Work 2. The paper must be at least 1500 words long and no longer than 2500 words. The word count does not include the reference page, title page, or an optional abstract. You must use APA guidelines. 3. The paper must have at least 12 authoritative references in your reference list, possibly more. At least 12 authoritative references must have a date after or in the year 2000. Use APA for citations and reference lists. 4. An argumentative thesis statement must be included. Directions: i. Your paper should evolve around a thesis statement and, thus, arguments to support that thesis statement; this is a statement, i.e., ONE sentence. Information about thesis statements can be found in many places, but a decent source is https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/545/01/ ii. Do not overcomplicate the thesis statement. Just write a statement of the main point; it should be a one-sentence answer you would give to a question, if you had to answer in just one sentence! It is a definable, arguable claim. iii. The key to this is that you are making a clear claim in your statement. The thesis/claim is not a normative OR descriptive statement. Do not state what should be; state what is and then research it to see if your claim is true, false, or undecided. [You may find that your assumption is incorrect OR has not been wholly established.] iv. The thesis statement must be on the title page of the paper. It is a statement (an English sentence) and not a question or a paragraph. Review what a thesis statement is supposed to be. v. Tip: When you write your statement, does it answer a so what? question? 5. You may support your arguments using some of the assigned readings, along with additional library sources. The majority of sources must be from those that were not directly provided in class. When doing your library research, you must use legitimate, authoritative sources of information: scholarly books, academic journals, and government sources only. No Wikipedia, no news sites, no newspapers, no magazines, no tech sites, no blog sites, no websites, no presentations, no dissertations, etc. [Caveat: You may include those types of cites/sites, but your primary arguments and justifications must be based on the legitimate sources of information; these do not count for your minimum reference number.] 7. Do not do indirect citations. There is a method of citing works that are cited in your readings; it is improper to cite them directly unless you have access to and have read the original source material. 8. Remember that this is research and neither a case study nor a general topic review. Think of it like this: you are trying to establish your thesis (or you may refute it or you may have missed findings). 9. Final papers are to be submitted online. All papers will be checked for plagiarism. There is zero tolerance for issues with this. Repeat: zero tolerance. 10. This is a research paper and is not a personal or reflective essay. Please be impersonal about it. Do not use I.
