Defending a Claim

For this paper, you are being asked to make and defend a claim about the significanceof a key issue, idea, concept,relationship, or phenomenon relevant to the politics ofrace relations. This claim should be summarized in a thesis at the end of yourintroduction, and all evidence and analysis in the body of the paper should support itsdevelopment.Introduction:Your first paragraph should include your research question, thesis/argument, roadmapof your paper. Make sure this is a short, clear, and concise paragraph.You may follow up your Intro paragraph with a subsequent paragraph that providescontext to the importance of your question.Literature ReviewAfter you have carefully thought about your argument, you will need to go back to thereadings to determine which authors discussed similar topics to what you arediscussing. What did they argue? What concepts and ideas didthey expand on? Howwill you use their ideas to help you elaborate on your ideas?Links to other helpful advice on writing LiteratureReviews:https://www.scribbr.com/dissertation/literaturereview/https://writingcenter.ashford.edu/writig-literature-reviewConceptual FrameworkWhat concepts are you using to answer your question?For Example:Realist Group threatLinked FateRacial TriangulationThese are just some examples of concepts we have discussed and/or read. You shouldbe able to use your readings notes and class notes to go back to the various readingsand help you identify those concepts. How are you defining the concepts? And whatconnections are you makingbetween the concepts in order to help you answer yourquestion.EvidenceLike all of our readings, we need data to back up the importance of our question as wellas to prove our points. Many of the authors use secondary sources, while alsoemploying primary data (from questionnaires they have created and distributed). Youwill only be required to look for secondary sources in places such as: census data,current population survey, pew research, Gallup poll. There are also other organizationsthat specialize in particular topics and have their own public datasets. (i.e.: thesentencing project).You will need to write out and describe what we need to focus on for each the tables.Why is this data important? What is it telling us?Please create an Appendix page where you label the tables/graphs.Theseimages willnot count towards your page count.Ex:Graph 1:Table 1:DiscussionUse this section to tie the concepts you identified in the conceptual framework section tothe data analysis above. How do both of these sections combined, prove to us that youhave answered your question.ConclusionGo back to your introduction. Did you do what you set out to do in the beginning?General Guidelines for AnalysisAll claims that you make about the history, data, and theory that support your argumentshould be based in cited evidence (whether quoted or paraphrased) from the coursereadings and your supplemental research. Whenever you cite evidence from one ofthese sources, you should analyze it in order to explain how it contributes to a point youare making in defense of your thesis. At the end of each major paragraph or point, askyourself, “Have I cited enough evidence to establish my point? Have I provided enoughanalysis to explain the connection between this evidence and my point?”General Guidelines for OrganizationYou should organize your paper around the logical development of your thesis and thinkcarefully about how you are splitting up information into paragraphs by topic ofdiscussion and ordering your paragraphs so that each one leads into the next. A greatway to do this is to use topic sentences to set goals for each paragraph that are clearlyrelevant to the development of some part of the thesis and transition sentences toindicate how and why you are moving from one point to the next.General Format:Double SpacedTimes New Roman12 Font1-inch margins on all sidesChicago Style Citation/Referenceshttps://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html· You are free to choosebetween Notes and bibliography system or Author-datesystem.Avoid page-long paragraphsMidterm:Do not go over the 10-page limit.