SOCIAL PROBLEM STATEMENT ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT (25 points) Look in academic literature (LSU Libraries) as well as governmental and policy websites for information about a problem you are interested in learning more about.

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SOCIAL PROBLEM STATEMENT ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT (25 points)
Look in academic literature (LSU Libraries) as well as governmental and policy websites
for information about a problem you are interested in learning more about.
Make sure you are:
Using voice narration
Being creative
Not overpowering the slides with words (put key points on the slide and speak
about the rest).
Not going over 8 slides
Not using Wikipedia
TITLE (1 slide)
-Introduce yourself
-Give your assignment a title (don’t simply use, Social Problem Statement Analysis)
PROBLEM STATEMENT (1-2 slides)
-This should be a succinct argument that can convince policy makers and the voting
public that should care about this issue.
-Define the problem
-Present descriptive statistics regarding problem prevalence
-Present information about the costs of the problem to society
PROBLEM CAUSES (CORRELATES) (1-2 slides)
-Briefly and succinctly summarize psychological, personal, familial, community, and/or
societal factors that cause, contribute to or correlate with the problem.
IDENTIFY POLICIES THAT ADDRESS THE PROBLEM (1-2 slides)
-Identify and report on one or more federal- or state-level policies that address the
problem.
REFERENCES
-Should be in APA format
-Should have at least 3-5 scholarly article references (use LSU Library)
Description Points
Covered all points of assignment:
• Voice narration
• Has title, problem statement, problem causes, policies that address
problem, and references
• Does not go over 8 slides
15
Creative and clean slides with minimal grammatical errors 5
References are 3-5 scholarly articles and in APA format
(Citing information that is not your own in the slides)