Overview
When confronted with a problem or issue, its human nature to want to solve it right away. Unfortunately, we usually try to solve a problem before we really understand what the problem is. This exercise is intended to help you fully articulate the problem that is at the heart of the policy topic youve chosen.
Deliverable for this week
The policy topic youve been assigned to refine — focuses on a problem or issue about which a decision must be made. In your role as an adviser to the decision maker, the first step you need to take is to diagnose the issue and articulate precisely what the problem or issue is that needs to be addressed. To do so, youll need to craft a written problem statement. This statement should identify the core issue(s) facing the decision maker and contain necessary background on the problem, opportunity, or issue. You will need to support your analysis with evidence drawn from the issue-focused research that you have collected.
To create the problem statement, use your research to answer the following questions:
What is the core issue?
Who does the issue affect? (key stakeholders)
What impact(s) is the issue causing? (consequences)
What is already known about the issue?
What are the boundaries of the issue? (time, geography, etc.)
How has the issue been defined and discussed in the scholarly literature?
Why is important that the issue be addressed?
Your problem statement should be crafted in the form of a single sentence. Following the problem statement, you should provide a literature review to answer one or some of the questions noted above with the properly formatted narration of literature (at least fifteen references) and citations. You may have previously written annotations on these references, or find that you need to collect a different set of 15 references in order to provide evidence supporting your problem definition. Either way, by reusing references or bringing together a new set of references, you will need to craft original writing which stitches together the literature in a meaningful way.
Most literature reviews organize the evidence by categories, some present a chronological development of theory and the history of ideas. Be sure to study the Instructional Material with videos and readings about the literature review process.
Use a minimum of 15 cited, relevant references.
For guidelines on writing a literature review, see the Week 08 Instructional Materials.
FORMAT: Submit your literature review paper in a Word document. It should be single-spaced and no more than two pages not including a cover page or your reference list.
USE 15 References I attached my references use as many as you can and you can add new references but it needs to be 15 total references
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