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1. As you’re putting the final touches on it, use the
As you’re putting the final touches on it, use the instructions below to ensure that you’ve
completed the assignment correctly.You have been asked to choose a particular issue facing
the city of Detroit and to examine it in three parts:Understand its root causes and current
status. By current status I mean who is this issue affecting (positively or negatively) now,
and how is it affecting Detroit or the metro area — socio-economically or
politically?Explaining the root causes should be the smallest section of your assignment that
should function only as an introduction to your explanation of the current status. Given that
your topic is current, events that occurred earlier than the 1950s are not directly relevant
and therefore should not be included. (Exception: I would consider it appropriate to refer
back to Detroit’s diverse industries prior to the automobile as a model for current economic
revival)The current status should be detailed and you should provide sufficient evidence
(current data) to support any and all claims about the current status. For instance, if I say
that crime rates are higher in neighborhoods with higher rates of vacancy and demolished
homes (blighted neighborhoods), then I should either precede this claim with evidence
(according to such and such study…) or provide the evidence to support it after I’ve made
the claim (For instance, in such and such study …). Remember also that correlation alone
does not adequately support a claim of causation. So, I should not conclude that blight
alone causes crime merely from the correlation of the two.Understand what is currently
being done at the policy, civic, market or personal level (or combination thereof) to address
this issue.Analyze current efforts being put towards resolving this particular issue of
concern. The question you are most interested in answering here is whether current efforts
are addressing root causes. If so, what might be impeding their success – could it be
finances or human capital for instance. If current efforts are not addressing root causes, why
not and how could these efforts be improved?For both sections 2 & 3 be sure to use either
Kalleberg, Biggs & Helms, Eliasph, or Kraft & Furlong where appropriate to give your
explanation and analysis a solid framework. For example, you would say something
like, Given Kalleberg’s definition of good jobs namely, “…(parenthetic citation)” the majority
of African Americans in Detroit do not have access to good jobs.FORMATAPA OR MLA
FORMAT with a title page. This one is not anonymous.WORKS CITED page should be
included at the end of your assignment and should be formatted the same way as the rest of
your assignment (APA or MLA). A “Works Cited” is different from a bibliography in the
sense that you would only include those sources that you have either quoted, paraphrased
or somehow referred to in your assignment. You should be using the minimum number of

2. sources for each category that I specified in the instructions from the first stage of your
assignment.IN-TEXT CITATIONS are required. This means that any source of information
you use to support your thesis requires a parenthetic in-text citation. Please let me know if
you’re not sure how to properly format parenthetic in-text citations, because using
information without giving credit to its source will be considered plagiarism and will
immediately result in a failing grade for the assignment you submit.NUMBER OF PAGES is a
minimum of 7 double-spaced pages — not including title page or works cited. DIRECT
QUOTES should not be more than 3 lines (not sentences).FONT should be a normal 12 point
font. Let me know if you have any further questions