Dear Colleagues,
Please focus on the following points as you prepare your final essay.
1. The essay question requires that you integrate information taken from several different (referenced) sources, to organize that information, and to summarize the information with conclusions that may be new to you.
2. Begin with a thesis statement, (or a claim) that you will explain and justify in your essay. Support your ideas with a rationale and evidence (not opinion statements such as “I think”) that are logically organized throughout the essay. Your ideas and the support should be clear to the reader.
3. Select relevant material to illustrate your points and provide specific references to class readings as well as additional research that you conduct via FDU library resources. Your essay must make substantive reference to at least two to three resources. Do not cite, quote, or reference from Wikipedia or general non-verifiable sources. References should follow a standard citation format APA as per your instructor.
4. Your essay should reflect appropriate grammar and syntax.
Length of the paper is 3-4 pages, double-spaced with a single-spaced heading.
Below is the question to answer in your paper.
Examine the ways in which the global issue(s) of your choice is(are) presented through the content of the course. Cite a minimum of two or more of the works that we have studied in this course. Present your analysis infusing concepts of sustainability and our Global future.
Scoring Rubric
Rubric (4=ideal and 1=unacceptable): For the purposes of learning outcomes assessment across sections, the following measures and rankings will be used.
Explanation of topic/issue/problem to be addressed
4) Response does a clear, explicit, and full job of identifying and explaining the importance of the TWO SDGs and how the TWO SDGs are interconnected for sustainability
3) Response does a good job of identifying the TWO SDGs although some questions remain as to the importance of both or how the TWO SDGs are interconnected for sustainability
2) Response does an adequate job of identifying the TWO SDGs but without clarity about the importance or interconnectedness for sustainability
1) Response does not include TWO SDGs or does not explain their importance or relation to sustainability
Evidence of selecting and using information to investigate a point of view or conclusion
4) Response does a clear, explicit, and full job of using source(s) with interpretation/evaluation to provide evidence for the response. Viewpoints of experts are questioned and analyzed.
3) Response does a good job of using source(s) with interpretation/evaluation to provide evidence for the response, but some questions or lack of clarity remain. Viewpoints of experts are subject to questioning.
2) Response does an adequate job of identifying the source(s) with interpretation/evaluation to provide evidence for the response but without clarity. Viewpoints of experts are taken as mostly fact, with little questioning.
1) Response does not include the use of sources or provides no interpretation/evaluation of the evidence. Viewpoints of experts are taken as fact, without question.
Influence of context and assumptions
4) Thoroughly (systematically and methodically) analyzes own and others’ assumptions and carefully evaluates the relevance of contexts when presenting a position.
3) Identifies own and others’ assumptions and several relevant contexts when presenting a position.
2) Questions some assumptions. Identifies several relevant contexts when presenting a position. May be more aware of others’ assumptions than one’s own (or vice versa).
1) Shows an emerging awareness of present assumptions (sometimes labels assertions as assumptions). Begins to identify some contexts when presenting a position.
Conclusions and related outcomes (implications and consequences)
4) Response clearly explains a conclusions and related outcomes (consequences and implications) are logical and reflect student’s informed evaluation and ability to place evidence and perspectives discussed in priority order.
3) Response does a good job of explaining a conclusion that is logically tied to a range of information, including opposing viewpoints; related outcomes (consequences and implications) are identified clearly.
2) Response does an adequate job of explaining a conclusion that is logically tied to information (because information is chosen to fit the desired conclusion); some related outcomes (consequences and implications) are NOT identified clearly.
1) Response does not include a conclusion or the conclusion is inconsistently tied to some of the information discussed; related outcomes (consequences and implications) are oversimplified.
