For this assignment, you will choose a topic, narrow it, research different points of view about it, and identify your audience in order to develop your angle on the topic.

After looking at the list of topics below, which was shared in Week 1’s lecture, choose a topic in which you have more than just a passing interest. The best topic to choose is one which impacts you in some way. Having personal experience with the topic will probably lend some perspective on it and may get you closer to an angle on it. Also, sometimes research can be daunting, but if you have personal experience with the topic, or are even passionate about it, you will probably be more motivated to keep working when the “going gets tough.” Thus, while “interest” in a topic is important, mere interest will probably not sustain you through this project. You might ask yourself, “What is it about this topic that sparks my interest enough to write a ten page paper about it?”

Once you choose the topic, please respond to the five questions below. Each of your responses should be approximately two paragraphs in length. This assignment will be graded using the Week 1 Assignment Rubric available in Doc Sharing.

Education | Technology | Family | Health and Wellness | School Bullies | Multitasking and Technology | Sexualization of Girls | College Students and Weight Issues | No Child Left Behind Act/Race to the Top | Technology and Social Isolation | Gender Discrimination | Childhood Obesity | Grade Inflation | Perils of Social Networking | Unequal Rights in Marriage, Children | Fad Diets | College Students and Underage Drinking | Online Dating/Online Predators/Sex Offenders | Children of Divorce | Junk Food | Student Debt | Illegal Downloading of Protected Content | Domestic Violence | Sedentary Lifestyles | College Students, Cheating, and Plagiarism | Internet Censorship/ Classified Information Leaks | Cyberbullying | Teenage Pregnancy | College Dropout Rates | Identity Theft | Life-Work (Im)balance/Flexible Work Schedules | Concussions in Athletes | High School Dropouts | Texting and Driving | | Insurance Premiums for Smokers and Obese Employees |

1. What is your possible topic? Brainstorm five questions about it. In this section pick a topic from the above list and then brainstorm five questions you have about it. If you feel disconnected from the topics on the list, choose one of your own, but make sure it is not an “overused topic,” such as abortion, gun control, capital punishment, or legalization of marijuana (unless you have personal experience with the topic and can offer a unique perspective). Also, beware of current issues that might not be well-researched yet; you may not find enough sources at this time. Your purpose for brainstorming five questions is to narrow the topic to a manageable scope. Who knows, one of the questions may eventually become your research question, the question that directs your entire paper. Need help getting started? See the list of questions below that are related to the following topics: perils of social networking, concussion and athletes, and grade inflation. (The examples below do not include five questions; but yours should.)

Examples: * Perils of social networking: How does social networking affect our social lives and our outlook on the world? Does it make us more socially isolated? What dangers are involved in meeting people online? Should my children be on social network sites, and at what age might it be okay for children to be on social networking sites? * Concussions and Athletes: How do head injuries affect athletes over the long term, especially repeated head injuries? What are the medical data and statistics? My kid plays football; what are the statistics on injuries to teenagers, and thus, should my child play football? * Grade Inflation: How should the world of higher education –my world—cope with problems of grade inflation? Should students complain about grade inflation knowing that it might affect the rigor of the course?

Life-Work (Im)balance/Flexible Work Schedules: What is more important personal life or work? Who comes first family or job? What is the benefit of having flexible work schedules?
Is it better to have regular work schedule or flexible? If you had to choose between relocating and higher pay or staying in your city and lose the promotion, what do you choose?

2. How is the topic important to you and how does it affect you? What do you personally hope to gain or accomplish by writing about this topic? In this section, describe your topic and how it first affected you. Explain why it is important to you. Reflect on how or why your background, motivations, needs, or interests sparked you to choose this topic. The best topics are those that are important to and involve you.

I think what really caught my interest in this categories family. Family is one of the most important thing in someone life and I have a very personal story I will share a little bit of it with you guys. I am from Syria I came to United States 3 years ago from Syria. I had to leave my family behind and leave my country due to safety matters. I haven't seen my family since 4 years and I can't travel back home or bring them here to see them. So, who said you don't appreciate thing till you lose it was totally correct.

My sub will be Life-Work (Im)balance/ Flexible Work Schedules and also for personal reason. Since, I came here I had goals in my life such as; getting high level education, have a decent job and start my own family. I joined DeVry the same year I came to U.S and I had a job one month after my arrival. i didn't know anyone with moderate English I was able to start my new journey and my new life path. Last year I got married and we had our little princess Sophia two month ago. In the next three session I will be finishing my English and Math classes, so I can graduate since I already finished my senior project. I just got hired as Software Engineer at Sears Holdings Corporation with a very decent salary that helps me, my family here and my family back home. Why family is important? because No one will love you more than your mom and you won't love anyone more than your kids.

3. Research your topic and provide a brief summary of the current points of view about the topic. Share at least two different/opposing positions on the topic. While this section asks for summaries of two others’ positions, write each summary in your own words. Each should be a paragraph in length. To conduct research on your topic, find at least two credible sources that offer opposing perspectives and summarize those points of view in a paragraph. Additionally, although we will be learning more about APA documentation style next week, use Citation Machine, the DeVry APA Handbook, APA tutorials in the syllabus, and/or Chapter 28 in your textbook to provide full APA references for both sources. (Note: The “click here” for your references is formatted as hanging indent.)

To let your employees create their own work schedules that helps them to creat better work-life balance. When someone can attend his daughter play or his son match or swimming class, and still being able to finish his work, they will feel more fulfilled and happy in their personal and work lives. In addition you want people to work when they are productive, because likely they will produces higher quality work. As a result happier work force means less burned out poeple or frustrated. At the end employees most likely will tend to be more loyal for a company that care about their personal lives and help them to be as closeas they can. says Rod Hughes, vice president at the PR agency, Kimball Communications. This is known as “golden chains.”

"Without face-to-face interaction and set hours, organizations run the risk of communication breakdown." When you have flexible hours that create a big problem sometimes you won't be able to get in touch with your peers, which makes it harder sometimes to coordinate projects, meetings and major incidents. That creates another problem for supervisiours to supervise different flexible shifts. Hughes says. “It can become a management headache." One more factor, accountability. Because it is flexible it is based on trust. Some employee could use the lack of unsupervised shift to do something he is getting paid of. And in these cases it is so hard to hold people accountable when they are not in the office.

Kreischer, Miller. (September 24, 2014) The Pros and Cons of Offering Flexible Work Schedules for Employees Retrieved from http://www.kmco.com/articles/looking-forward/the-pros-and-cons-of-offering-flexible-work-schedules/

4. Describe whom you might choose as your audience. Who are your readers, and what are their needs, motivations, and influences? In what ways will you need to structure your writing to appeal to them? Think about who will need/want to read your paper. What do you need to consider about those readers? Will they be open-minded or antagonistic? Are you outside your group of readers, which means that you need to choose a formal voice and use “they,” or are you part of your group of readers, which means that you can use a more conversational voice and use “we”? Analyze the groups and individuals who are reading and writing on your chosen topic. Work to define who they are and how their backgrounds will dictate your writing approach.

My audience will be you professor and my peers in the class which put my paper in the Academic level as well as my professional colleagues from work whom are IT professionals. The needs is kind of different because my classmate some of them might never been in corporate job and some might. I think my classmates needs to hear the experience of someone worked for two years in corporates and knows how hard it is. The motivations always come from the family. Every one of us has a family and it is vary from parents to brother and to your own as father/mother. We all might agree how important is our family to use and I will try to find in this paper solid ground that can take the love of the family to help everyone succeed in work life.

5. What specific issue will you write about within the larger topic, and what unique angle will you provide?
In this section, decide upon and explain which “side” of the argument you are on and what your thesis statement will be. To do that, you should attempt to come up with a question about the topic that you will answer in your paper. Your answer becomes your working thesis statement. For example, you might write the following: “With the growing instances of road rage across the nation, it might be argued that drivers who do not abide by the rules of the road are the cause of road rage (e.g., not using a turn signal when changing lanes; travelling slowly in the left lane when others are trying to pass; not turning into the same lane when turning a corner). If drivers who do not follow the laws are the problem, then shouldn’t states require extensive driver’s education of all new drivers?” Note that this question can be answered either yes or no. Additionally, the question asks, “Should....” Your question should begin with “should,” “must,” or “do we need to” because your thesis will be a persuasive, “should,” “need to,” or “must” statement.

I think for specific issue is how hard to find a job right now. What I mean is how hard to find a decent job in your field like mine IT. It is easy to find a job at BestBuy or Sears but it is hard to find an entry level for developing, just because there is a lot of people out there already with experience and might work for less. My unique angle is my story; I came to the US almost 4 years ago. I left my family back there due to the civil war happening over there. When I reached the US I didn’t know anyone I had to look for a job and start a new life.