Your goal with this assignment is to analyze the impact technology has had on your field. How has it changed things in your field?
The negative effects of technological advancements on mental health social workers
There are many different types of research essays out there and a few include: the persuasive/argumentative research essay, the analytical research essay, and the investigative research report. For this assignment, you will write a persuasive research essay.
To get started, first pick a topic. Select something (person, place, thing) in your field of study (your degree choice). For this essay, focus specifically on this something (person, place, thing) you selected and argue whether advances in technology have had a positive or negative effect on your field of study.
Your goal with this assignment is to analyze the impact technology has had on your field. How has it changed things in your field? Have these changes been positive or negative or both? Has a specific something (person, place, thing) added value to your field because of technology’s impact on him/her/it?
Some Examples of Topic Choices:
If you are a photography major, you could explore the effects of digital reproduction of pictures, which has essentially replaced film. Then you could discuss how the invention of digital reproduction has changed the photography field and argue whether this technological change has had a positive or negative effect on the field as whole.
Or if you are a business major you could discuss how the invention of Microsoft Office has changed the way we compose information and process data and argue whether Microsoft Office has dramatically altered our business processes.
If you are Rad-Tech major, you could discuss how the invention of X-ray technology has changed the field positively or negatively.
Or if you are an EMT major, you could discuss how technology has created various tools and processes, which has changed emergency lifesaving and argue how EMTs tools/processes have changed the amount of people saved.
You began work on this assignment already in Writing Assignment 5, so you have good start for your first rough draft already (use your detailed outline).
A Few Specifics:
5-7 pages
12 pt. font
1” margins, typed, double-spaced
APA documentation style and page formatting for all pages
You must use at least 4 sources from credible authors; use scholarly sites to help you find sources. Note: These sources can come straight from the ones you found for writing assignment 4 unless you found others you would like to use.
Use in-text citations for any selections you use from any sources used; whether you paraphrase, summarize or directly quote them.
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