SCS 200 Presentation Progress Check Guidelines and Rubric Overview: Throughout the first three themes, you have been guided through your work on Project Two (a presentation), which you will continue to work on in Theme: Presenting Social Science Concepts and Research and will formally submit to your instructor at the end of Week 8. This assignment provides you with an important opportunity to get valuable instructor feedback on the progress you are making and to ensure you are on the right track for your later submission. Prompt: Throughout the first three themes, you have explored why the social science issue selected in Project One (a research investigation) is of interest to you personally, and you have begun to reflect on how your research related to your issues has changed your perspective on the topic. Specifically, in this assignment, you will submit the Project Two elements listed below for review by your instructor. In Theme: Performing the Research Investigation, learning block 4-2 (page 1); Theme: Performing the Research Investigation, learning block 4-3 (page 3); and Theme: Tailoring the Message to an Audience, learning block 5-3 (page 3), you completed the following work: I. Provide a brief overview of the social scientific background of your issue and research question. How is the issue situated within the social sciences? In Theme: Tailoring the Message to an Audience, learning block 5-2 (page 3), you completed the following work: II. Explain how the issue impacts the audience. In other words, how is the issue relevant to members of the audience? Why should the audience care about the response to your question or the outcome of your investigation? Support your response with specific examples from your research investigation. In Theme: Tailoring the Message to an Audience, learning block 6-1 (page 4), you contributed to the following prompt: III. Describe the evidence you have to support your conclusions about the impact of the issue on you personally and on your audience. Support your response with specific examples from your research investigation. In Theme: Exploring Social Science Issues, learning block 2-2 (page 4), you completed the following work: IV. Explain why this issue is important to you personally. In other words, why did you select this issue to investigate? In Theme: Performing the Research Investigation, learning block 3-4 (page 1), you contributed to the following prompt: V. Illustrate how your investigation of the issue impacted the way you thought about the issue. In other words, how did thinking like a scientist to research and develop a question affect what you thought about the issue you selected? How did social scientific thinking change the lens through which you viewed the issue? Support your response with specific examples from your research investigation. In Theme: Tailoring the Message to an Audience, learning block 5-2 (page 3), learning block 3 (page 3), and learning block 6 (page 4), you began working on the following section of the prompt: VII. Communicate your message in a way that is tailored to your specific audience. For instance, you could consider your vocabulary, your audience’s potential current natural science knowledge or lack thereof, and what is specifically important to the audience. In Theme: Tailoring the Message to an Audience, learning block 6-3 (page 4), you were prompted to create two visual slides using a presentation software of your choosing (PowerPoint, Prezi, or other) and accompanying notes. These slides can be used to address any of the sections detailed above and should include visuals with proper citations, where necessary. Note that the numbering included above directly aligns with the numbering of these elements as they are presented in the Project Two Guidelines and Rubric document. Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your presentation progress check submission will include two sections: a two-slide portion of your presentation, submitted using a presentation platform of your choosing (PowerPoint, Prezi, etc.), and a written document submitted in Microsoft Word. In your Word document, be sure to format with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Citations should be formatted according to APA style. Critical Elements Social Scientific Background Proficient (100%) Provides brief overview of social scientific background of issue and research question and explains how issue is situated within social sciences Audience Explains how issue impacts audience, supporting response with examples from research investigation Needs Improvement (75%) Provides brief overview of social scientific background of issue and research question and explains how issue is situated within social sciences, but with gaps in detail or clarity Explains how issue impacts audience, but with gaps in clarity, detail, or support Not Evident (0%) Does not provide brief overview of social scientific background of issue and research question and does not explain how issue is situated within social sciences Does not explain how issue impacts audience Value 14 14 Evidence Personally Investigation Message Two Visual Slides Articulation of Response Describes evidence that supports conclusions about impact of issue on self and audience, supporting response with examples from research investigation Explains why issue is important personally Illustrates how investigation of issue impacted thinking on the issue, supporting response with examples from research investigation Communicates message effectively in a way that is tailored to specific audience Slide visuals support key points of the presentation using properly cited graphics and charts as appropriate Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization Describes evidence that supports conclusions about impact of issue on self and audience, but with gaps in clarity, detail, or support Does not describe evidence that supports conclusions about impact of issue on self and audience 14 Explains why issue is important personally, but with gaps in clarity or detail Illustrates how investigation of issue impacted thinking on the issue, but with gaps in clarity, detail, or support Does not explain why issue is important personally 14 Does not illustrate how investigation of issue impacted thinking on the issue 14 Communicates message to audience, but communication is not effective or is not tailored to specific audience Slide visuals include graphics and charts, but citations are incomplete or connections to presentation content are not clear Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas Does not communicate message to audience 14 Slide visuals are not included in submission 10 Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas 6 Total 100% Good morning Students, Below is a sample presentation check: Presentation Progress Check Instruction I. Provide a brief overview of the social scientific background of your issue and research question. How is the issue situated within the social sciences? Look back to Learning Block 2-1, where you are provided a list of steps that a researcher takes to investigate an issue. Step 1 is to identify your issue and ask your question. Step 2 states: Review the Literature Next, an investigator must perform a background search on his or her question. This is also known as "reviewing the literature." In this stage, it is important to find papers and books written by members of a discipline. For one thing, maybe your question has already been answered! Background research can also help the investigator refine the question or hone in on an even more pressing one. Looking at the work that's already been done can help guide the next steps; it may become clear what the means of gathering data is, or it may give insight as to what other resources are out there. Finally, it can help a researcher gather support that there is a need to answer these questions. What you are being asked to do, then, is to relate your initial research. What is the background (related to the general topic) in which your research issue is based? When social scientists begin their research, they look at what other scholars have already done. They also want to know if the specific question they have has already been answered. This is actually called a Literature Review (or Lit. Review), as you are reviewing the research that is already available. The researcher will build upon this “background” data to answer his or her chosen research question. EXAMPLE An example, using the topic “social factors that contribute to addiction”: For a social science background, you should be providing information backed up by research (with citations). Choose one of the social factors, and focus on that as your specific issue. For example, "Research (Ida 2003, Thomas 2000) shows that addiction increases twenty-five percent for individuals who suffer from poverty. Brown (2017) states that poverty contributes to feelings of despair and helplessness, which can lead to addictive behaviors. There are differences noted in rural areas versus urban areas in regard to the relationship between poverty and addiction only in the drug of choice – In urban areas, opioids and street drugs are more common, whereas in rural areas, meth is more common. Both rural and urban areas show a high consumption of alcohol in poverty-stricken areas (Sydney, 2018).” Please pay attention to the prompts and to the rubric. I am providing detailed information for each prompt along with sample text. "Excerpts" from my "sample paper" are in blue: This question IS NOT ASKING FOR YOU TO NAME THE SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINE or the SOCIAL SCIENCE PRINCIPLES. You are being asked to discuss your INITIAL RESEARCH. Again, many of you are using internet resources as your main source of information, instead of scholarly journals. Websites are not acceptable as a main source. A wide selection of scholarly journals are located in the Databases of Shapiro Library. II. Explain how the issue impacts the audience. Firstly, who is your audience? Professionals? Teachers? Parents, Doctors? How will your information impact this specific audience? Why might it be important for them? Why this audience? What will they gain from your presentation? III. Describe the EVIDENCE you have to support your conclusions about the impact of the issue on you personally and on your audience. This is where your research comes in. Your evidence should be scholarly in nature, to back up your assertions. Make sure to CITE your sources! You are NOT being asked to cut-and-paste the “Three Resources” portion of Project 1. Instead, you should coalesce the data from all of your articles, and summarize your findings. Remember, you are creating a presentation for an audience. For example, if my paper was on the topic, “satisfaction in the workplace,” I could say, "Smith (1999) shows that when pay is increased by ten percent among unskilled workers, that production goes up by twelve percent." Similarly, Jones (2017) observed that work-related quarterly or yearly reviews that were more positive than negative actually increased productivity by five percent to seven percent." (You would add a bit more detail). Please do not use a quote as your reason for choosing an article. You need to summarize key findings in your own words, and then correlate the research from your sources to address your research question. IV. Explain why this issue is important to you personally. Example: “This issue is important to me, because several family members have been diagnosed with diabetes, and two close family members had heart attacks at a young age.” V. Illustrate how your investigation of the issue impacted the way you thought about the issue. Example: “I have read a lot of material online regarding this issue, but the scholarly articles provided me with the details that were missing from the online news articles. In addition, I discovered that some of the news stories were actually misleading.” VI. Explain why using evidence-supported research can give you both personal and professional advantage. How did using scholarly data give you an advantage over relying on your opinion or information off of the internet? VII. Communicate your message in a way that is tailored to your specific audience. This question should be reflected in your presentation. Am I speaking to an audience that is basically healthy but should be aware of unhealthy trends in the American diet, or am I speaking to an audience that mostly suffers from health issues? It is important to read over the rubric to ensure that you are addressing each, specific issue. Remember, I grade your assignments based on the rubric. Create Two visual slides Here, you are creating at least two powerpoint slides. If you use images or charts, you need to include the URL or other citation showing where you retrieved the image from. After your introduction slide, I would like to see a slide that provided bullet points including the main points that you would be focusing on for your presentation. In other words, the data that answers your research question. Your slides do not have to address the rubric prompts. The rubric prompts can be answered in the “notes” section under the slide or in a separate word document. The slides are just your presentation -- sharing the results of your research with your audience.
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