Breaking Generational Curses in Underprepared Black Males at HBCUs: A Critical Review on Staff Interaction, Perception of Learning Support Involvement, and Personal Academic Responsibilities

This assignment is designed to facilitate individual student research interests related to developmental education. Students are free to choose a topic of interest that identifies a real, current, issue. They are encouraged to begin the research early and to design their projects to suite personal and professional interests. This paper should be 9 to 12 pages long (excluding the title and reference pages; abstracts are not necessary), taking more if needed. Note: For this individual scholarly paper, you must use AT LEAST TWELVE (12) independent scholarly sources for references, meaning you have to read more articles and books outside the textbooks (The three textbooks can count as three). The sources can include peer-reviewed articles, books and others. Scholarly references generally include scholarly journal articles and NOT news periodicals (The Chronicle of Higher Education is a news periodical.) Use APA format. See grading rubric in BB. Watch Discussion board and announcements for more details.

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Your final paper is due May 8 (Friday) at 5:00 p.m. (It is a STRICT deadline.)

As for your final research paper, besides the assignment descriptions on the syllabus and the grading rubric in BB (Please do carefully read them), I would like to give you some more suggestions:
You should have the flexibility as to what to write about (as far as it is related to developmental education – it has to be relevant to this course theme; you can strictly follow the research topic you have chosen in the previous assignment or you can change to a different topic in the field), and how to write it.

Typically most students do the following:
In the easiest and most practical way, your final paper can be a summary of literature review (an organized review/synthesis of the research that has been done in literature body on your research topic/question and its relation to your own research topic).
 Make sure you have a research topic/question
 Have a framework design to support the research topic/question
 Be sure there is flow to the research paper

Please read some books and/or peer-reviewed articles (remember you need to use at least 12 academic sources; 9 being outside the textbooks since the three textbooks can count as three.) that are related to your own topic/question(s), and summarize/review them in a meaningful way to your own research. For example, what is your topic, regarding your research topic, what has been studied so far in literature, what does the research say about it (summarize and synthesize it), and why is your research important/necessary, etc.
Please follow APA format, especially paragraphs, in-text citations, and reference page.