My thesis is “By examining the prevalent crisis-oriented perspective on homelessness in society, it becomes evident that a transformative shift towards a preventive stance is crucial.”

For Competencies EC1002 and EC1003, you explored a social challenge in your local community, uncovered a scholarly article related to the challenge, and developed an outline to help you formulate an argument to support your position as to how the challenge could be resolved.

To complete this Written Response Assessment, you will submit a full rough draft for an argumentative essay that presents your opinion or proposal, the supporting arguments for your proposal, and a concluding paragraph that summarizes your argument and calls your audience to action. This Rough Draft will eventually become your final essay in EC1005 based on your local community issue. As you write, remember that you are moving away from a personal reflection on the issue to an academic essay based on a relevant local issue in your community. Therefore, this draft needs to be written in the third person, i.e. you should not state that “I believe…” but rather that “Research supports…”

Follow these steps to complete your Assessment:

1. Review your completed Assessment from Competency EC1002: Developing Coherent Sentences and Paragraphs. Review your Written Response Template from EC1003: Developing a Thesis and Outline.
2. Use your Outline as a guide to draft a 3- to 4-page Argumentative Essay that does the following:
   
   
   • Describes the social challenge in your local community that you’ve selected.
   • Identifies your position on the challenge and your proposal for improvement.
   • Presents at least two arguments for why this proposal should be followed.
   • Supports those arguments with information from a scholarly article.
   • Concludes with a call to action.
3. Copy and paste the Outline you created in your EC1003 Developing a Thesis and Outline Template document, so your faculty assessor can refer to it as they review your Argumentative Essay rough draft.
4. Format your Argumentative Essay rough draft, according to APA guidelines. There are two options below to help with this:
   1. Click the link below to view the video entitled APA Essay Format (7^th): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrh5OC3T6dc
   2. Click the link below to open the Undergraduate Paper With Advice (APA 7) template: https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/templates/general

Watch the video and/or open the template and read the instructions carefully. Take your time. Both sources will tell you every step you need to follow. Paste your introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion into each appropriate section within the template.

 Attached is my EC1002 and EC1003 guides containing my thesis and outline and previous source used for that assignement, these will need to be followed for this assignement. Also attached is the rubric. Other sources can be used for additoinal support in the rough draft but the main article must be one of those sources that support my thesis and outline.