In this final activity for the week, we will start to build your Final Paper. We will do this in a multi-step process building your paper in blocks. This process is sometimes used at a team-level in the intelligence community when building a long-term study, and if you decide to go on to graduate school your thesis will be built this way. There are three graded parts of this activity. The first is the submission of your cover page using the Final Paper template which can be found in Course Documents folder. The next is your introduction to your Final Paper where your research question will be clearly identified. The third part entails a list of your current resources. Ensure you provide two to three points per resource about how the resource will be used to answer your research question.
Activity Instructions
Submit your initial research question and the start of your introduction to your Final Paper on your approved topic. Your professor will help you develop the research question, but you must communicate with the professor first, and be clear and concise on what your point or objective of this Final Paper is. Lastly, submit a list of current resources for review to ensure credible sources are being used. The intelligence source citation format is not needed at this juncture since endnotes are used as the source citation method in intelligence reports. Please provide the name of your resource, the type of resource (textbook, journal, online resource), the URL for any online resources, and two to three points about how the resource will be used to answer your research question. If you are not sure how the resource will be used at this point, indicate that. Also, provide two to three points indicating your initial reasoning for pulling and submitting the resource as part of this activity.
A rough draft of this assignment is due on Thursday for your instructor’s feedback. You will then implement the instructor’s feedback and/or provide any changes as necessary, then resubmit the assignment again under activity 2.3. The revised, graded assignment must be submitted by Sunday.
At the end of your submission, include a brief Design Statement explaining the process and tools you used to develop your work. Your statement should be about a paragraph or so, in your own words (rather than formally written), and unique to this assignment.