1 Kaplan University College of Arts and Sciences Final Project Information CM107 COURSE # Overview of Final Project This class focuses on using the steps of the writing process to create a cohesive essay. The activities in this course lead to a Final Project due in Unit 9. Because we will work on each step of the writing process, it is crucial to see the ultimate goal as the Final Project. The Final Project will provide you with an opportunity to integrate all of the concepts covered in this class. As you read the unit materials for each week and participate in discussions, keep these issues in mind. The projects will all be steps in the process, so if you stay on task, you should be well prepared for the Final Project. Expository essays attempt to educate an audience about a topic and, ultimately, explain ideas they may not have understood before reading your essay. You can use the expository style for multiple purposes such as informing, persuading, and explaining. In our course, we will focus on the informative style of expository writing. To be convincing, essays must be justified by evidence and be logically sound. Throughout this course, you will learn aspects of effective writing that will be used in this Final Project. Your Final Project for this course will be a 3–5 page, double-spaced informative essay. You should document all sources using APA citation. Units 4 and 5 will discuss this citation style in detail. Your essay will use a variety of sources and will be based on a topic selected in Unit 1. You will submit an outline in Unit 4 and a three-page draft of the essay in Unit 7. Your final paper must be original work written for this class. This means that you must be the author (turning in a paper written by someone else is plagiarism and will not be tolerated) and you must not have turned in your Final Paper (or another version of it) for a grade in another class. Click here to see a sample Final Project. This sample’s topic is not one of our topics for this course, but it is the subject of many samples in this course. The Final Project will be due at the end of Unit 9. When you are ready to submit it, go to the Dropbox, and complete the steps listed in Unit 9: Project. Final Project Topics The topics on this list are approved for use in this course. Each topic is accompanied by sources to help you begin learning about the topic. These sources are electronic articles available in the Kaplan Library databases. The article titles and author or periodical names are listed below. With this information, you can use the Kaplan Library Super Search to find the articles in electronic databases. http://kucourses.com/ec/media/store/mediasoas/CM107_0904C/CM107_U1/CM107SampleFinalProject.pdf� 2 Kaplan University College of Arts and Sciences Final Project Information CM107 COURSE # ProQuest Criminal Justice, MasterFile Premier, and Academic Search Elite are article databa ...

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Kaplan University College of Arts and Sciences
Final Project Information CM107
COURSE #
Overview of Final Project
This class focuses on using the steps of the writing process to
create a cohesive essay. The activities
in this course lead to a Final Project due in Unit 9. Because we
will work on each step of the writing
process, it is crucial to see the ultimate goal as the Final
Project. The Final Project will provide you
with an opportunity to integrate all of the concepts covered in
this class. As you read the unit
materials for each week and participate in discussions, keep
these issues in mind. The projects will
all be steps in the process, so if you stay on task, you should be
well prepared for the Final Project.
Expository essays attempt to educate an audience about a topic
and, ultimately, explain ideas they
may not have understood before reading your essay. You can
use the expository style for multiple
purposes such as informing, persuading, and explaining. In our
course, we will focus on the

2. informative style of expository writing. To be convincing,
essays must be justified by evidence and
be logically sound. Throughout this course, you will learn
aspects of effective writing that will be
used in this Final Project.
Your Final Project for this course will be a 3–5 page, double-
spaced informative essay. You should
document all sources using APA citation. Units 4 and 5 will
discuss this citation style in detail. Your
essay will use a variety of sources and will be based on a topic
selected in Unit 1. You will submit an
outline in Unit 4 and a three-page draft of the essay in Unit 7.
Your final paper must be original work written for this class.
This means that you must be the
author (turning in a paper written by someone else is plagiarism
and will not be tolerated) and you
must not have turned in your Final Paper (or another version of
it) for a grade in another class.
Click here to see a sample Final Project. This sample’s topic is
not one of our topics for this course,
but it is the subject of many samples in this course.
The Final Project will be due at the end of Unit 9. When you are
ready to submit it, go to the
Dropbox, and complete the steps listed in Unit 9: Project.
Final Project Topics
The topics on this list are approved for use in this course. Each
topic is accompanied by sources to
help you begin learning about the topic. These sources are
electronic articles available in the Kaplan
Library databases. The article titles and author or periodical

3. names are listed below. With this
information, you can use the Kaplan Library Super Search to
find the articles in electronic databases.
http://kucourses.com/ec/media/store/mediasoas/CM107_0904C/
CM107_U1/CM107SampleFinalProject.pdf�
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ProQuest Criminal Justice, MasterFile Premier, and Academic
Search Elite are article databases that
can also be found under "Electronic Articles" in the Kaplan
Library. There are many other valuable
databases there as well, including Business and Lexis Nexis.
The articles under each topic are not
listed in the APA format we will work with soon. Instead, the
list includes the essentials you need to
find the articles in the Kaplan Library electronic-article
databases.
Keyword searches can be the most effective for the Library
databases. For example, if you were
looking for David Keene’s “The Bubbling Pot,” you might
search the Academic Search Premier
database using the words “bubbling pot” to find the article. The

4. entire title will usually bring the
same search result.
You will do more research on your own, but the lists below can
help you get started.
Eco Fuels
“Auto Initiative Focuses on Environment” by Andrea Baker
“Landfill Gas Provides
Solution
to Rising Natural Gas Prices” by Teresa Hansen
“Finding Fuel Alternatives” by Lindsay Isaacs
“Why Ethanol Is No Longer a Punch Line” by David Stipp
Telecommuting
“Confessions of a Full-Time Telecommuter” by Barbara
Gomolski
“Gas Prices Fuel Telecommuting” by Marilyn Gardner
“Find Out if Telecommuting Suits You” by Marilyn Moats
Kennedy
“Lessons Learned: Telecommuting” by Sandra Kurack
Drugs and Crime
“Ugly Realities of Drug War,” The Washington Times
“Welcome to Meth Country” by Marilyn Berlin

5. “Pushing the Pills a Bit Too Hard” by Arlene Weintraub
“A Better War on Drugs” by Marc Mauer
Immigration Laws and Border Control
“The Bubbling Pot” by David Keene
“Not Criminal, Just Hopeful,” Economist
“Border Control Aims at Wrong Bad Guys” by Marisa Trevino
“Whipsawed on the border,” Business Week
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6. Providing Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants—Social
Responsibility?
“A New Strategy for Immigrants’ Healthcare” by Kris Axtman
“Illegal Immigrants, Health Care, and Social Responsibility” by
James Dwyer
“With Minimal Federal Help, Community Safety Nets Are
Straining to Care for Uninsured
Immigrants,” H & HN: Hospitals & Health Networks
“Hospitals Feeling Strain from Illegal Immigrants” by Dana
Canedy
“Disproportionate Burden” by Vince Galloro
Intimate Partner Violence
“Special Issue on the Role of Law Enforcement in Domestic
Violence” by Vincent B. Van
Hasselt and Abigail S. Malcolm
“Community-Based Spouse Abuse Protection and Family
Preservation Team” by Elwood R.
Hamlin II
“Domestic Violence Prevention in Washington, DC” by Leonard
A Sipes Jr.
“Domestic Violence in Federal Court: Abused Women as
Victims, Survivors, and Offenders” by Myrna
S. Raeder

7. Alternative Medicine vs. Conventional Medicine
“Concerns with Complementary and Alternative Medicines” by
I.R. Appadurai and C.L. Hanna
“Alternative Medicines’ Popularity Prompts Concern” by Donya
C. Arias
“Any Science Behind the Hype of ‘Natural’ Dietary
Supplements” by Teri Capriotti
“One Internist’s Transition to Alternative Medicine” by David
Edelberg
“Which Alternative Treatments Work,” Consumer Reports
Cybercrime
“Beware, Botnets Have Your PC in Their Sights” by Michael
Reilly
“Cybercrime Arrests by FBI 'a tiny drop in the bucket'” by
Byron Acohido
“Email Crimes and Misdemeanors” by Michelle Manafy
“Privacy and Cybercrime Enforcement FDCH,” Congressional
Testimony
“Teamwork Key to Combating Cybercrime” by Cynthia
Andrews
Firearms and Crime
“Half-cocked,” Economist
“Gun Rights Rhetoric Has Familiar Ring” by Eric Zorn

8. “Gun Control Puts People at Risk” by John Stossel
“Follow the Guns: Our View: Laws on Gun Sales Should Be
Tightened,” The Baltimore Sun
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Sex and Adolescence
“The End of Abstinence-Only” by Todd Melby
“Teen Pregnancy ON THE RISE” by Bill Hewitt
“Children Having Children” by Susan Black
“Teen Birth Rate Rises Again,” Contemporary Sexuality

9. “Concept Analysis: Sexual-Decision Making in Adolescence”
by Heidi C. Fantasia
“Reaching Parents to Prevent Adolescent Risky Behavior” by
John F. Tanner, Les A. Carlson, Mary
Anne Raymond, and Christopher D. Hopkins
Homeland Security and Terrorism
“Department of Homeland Security Now 5 Years Old” by
Kristin M. Daum
“In Defense of a Nation” by Michael McBride
“Big Brother Really IS Watching” by Robert L. Mitchell
“Homeland Security Literacy for the Law Enforcement
Executive” by Mark Landahl
Sting Operations: Justice or Entrapment?
“Piracy Sting Nets 675 Arrests,” by Patrick Frater
“Entrapped on the Web? Applying the Entrapment Defense to
Cases Involving Online Sting
Operations” by Robert Moore
“When the Truth Can Wait” by Eileen Libby
“3rd Circuit: Police Decoy to Snare Pedophile is Legal,”
Juvenile Justice Digest
Underage Drinking and Law Enforcement
“A Host of Trouble” by Emma Schwartz

10. “Parent Attitudes to the Supply of Alcohol to Minors” by
Kypros Kypri, Johanna I. Dean, and
Elizabeth Stojanovski
“Youth Alcohol Enforcement: A Community Project” by James
C. Arnott
“Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws Program” by Kay
McKinney
Bariatric Surgery--An Easy Answer to Obesity?
“Bariatric Surgery: Too Many Unanswered Questions” by
Frank Arthur
“Weighing the Risks” by Betsy Streisand
“Desperate Measures” by Samantha Marshall
“Managing Weighty Issues on Lean Evidence: The Challenges
of Bariatric Medicine” by Arya M.
Sharma
No Child Left Behind
“No Child Left Behind Worries No Longer Falling on Deaf
Ears” by Shannon Mortland

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“Politicians Ignore the Reality of Education” by Brad Cook
“What’s Missing from No Child Left Behind? A Policy Analysis
from a Social Work
Perspective” by Christine Lagana-Riordan
“Moving Beyond No Child Left Behind” by Steve LeVine
“Left Behind: Low-Income Students Under the No Child Left
Behind Act (NCLB)” by Adam
Sanders