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Due Date:
Points: 100
Overview:
Using your chosen group from previous assignments and the knowledge you have
gained from assignment 1 and 2 you will write a 6-8 page paper.
Instructions:
Address the following:
• Three social issues or challenges your chosen group faces.
• Two current advocacy organizations that focus on your chosen group. You
should identify and describe the organization along with examples of the work
they do.
• Three strategies you would use to work with this population in a human service
environment. These strategies should be clearly identified within your paper and
your discussion should provide a rationale for these outlined strategies. You
should use examples from your research on current challenges to justify why
your particular strategies are important for human service providers.
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Requirements:
• This paper should include at least 3 outside resources.
• The paper should be 6-8 full pages in length (not including the title or reference
pages).
• Please be sure to avoid using internet sources such as Wikipedia or other web-
based resources that do not have strong academic backing. You will also be
required to use in-text references in your work in accordance with APA style to
avoid plagiarism. Plagiarism detection software will be used to scan each paper
and any paper that is determined to have academic integrity issues will earn a
score of 0 automatically. Any papers that have been submitted in other
courses will NOT be accepted. This must be original work. Self-plagiarism
and any other forms of plagiarism will result in one or all of the following
actions: 1) 0 for the assignment 2) failing the course 3) dismissal from the
university.
HSV320 – Multicultural Issues in Human
Services
Unit 7 Assignment: Written Assignment 3
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Be sure to read the criteria by which your work will be evaluated before you write
and again after you write.
Evaluation Rubric for Assignments
CRITERIA Deficient Needs
Improvement
Proficient Exemplary
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Structure
Organization structure and
paragraphing have serious and
persistent errors.
Directions were ignored and information
provided was
insufficient to meet
assignment
guidelines.
Written work inadequate for college-level
work; Paragraphing and transitions
are inadequate;
inappropriate guidelines
outlined for
paper were not
met with several
problems (see
directions).
Written work is clear and adequate
college-level work;
Paragraphing and transitions
are adequate;
appropriate guidelines outlined for paper were met with a few noted
problems (see directions).
Written work is clear and excellent
college-level work;
Paragraphing and transitions are clear and
appropriate; appropriate guidelines
outlined
for paper were
met (see
directions).
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Mechanics
Written work had serious and
persistent errors in word selection and
use; sentence structure, spelling,
grammar, punctuation was
inappropriate and with serious errors; APA style was
completely
unacceptable.
Written work had serious and persistent errors
in word selection and
use; sentence
structure, spelling,
grammar,
punctuation was inappropriate
and with serious errors; APA style was
completely
unacceptable.
Written work was generally
free of errors in
word selection and
use; sentence structure, spelling,
grammar,
punctuation was
adequate; APA style was
acceptable
with a few
errors.
Written work has no major
errors in word selection
and use; sentence
structure, spelling,
grammar,
punctuation was
appropriate;
APA style was acceptable
with no to few
errors
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Content
Written work does not cover the
assigned topic; assertions
are not supported by
evidence; paper is
seriously lacking in
content and detail;
scholarly journals
were not used or
used properly.
Written work does not do an
adequate job of covering
the assigned
topic;
assertions are weakly
supported by
evidence; paper
is inadequate in meeting the page and
content area requirements;
less than 3 scholarly
journals were
used.
The length of the written work
is sufficient to
cover the topic; assertions are supported by
evidence; does
not meet full required
number of
pages and
content areas.
3 scholarly
journals were
used.
The length of the written work
provides indepth
coverage of the topics,
assertions are clearly
supported by evidence;
Paper meets required length
of pages and
content areas;
3 or more scholarly
journals were
used.
