Assignment 4 required in syllabus, I will attach my submitted assignment 1, 2 and 3.

10-15 references required.

Please make sure to follow the ideas from assignment 1,2 and 3.

I believe you wrote assignment 1,2 and 3 for me so please continue the topic: What are the greatest concerns in regards to immigration policies for the upcoming half century?

Your rough draft should be a close-to-complete version of your final paper. The more you have done for your rough draft, the better your feedback will be for the final product. Keep this in mind when you work on and submit this assignment.

This assignment should be ten- to fifteen-pages in length. For the rough draft, you should include (at least) an introduction, literature review, proposed methods, and a conclusion. You may also provide draft sections of your expected findings and the bibliography. As with the final paper, the introduction should set up a history/background of the topic, why it is important to study, and what your proposed study would look like in terms of methods. You should also introduce the three major themes (Please make sure to follow the ideas from assignment 3) that you will be discussing in the literature review. For your conclusion, recap the things that you discussed and the major points of the literature review. What does this tell us about what to expect from your proposed study? Reestablish why studying your topic and the three themes is important. Why should this be investigated? Also cover any potential limitations to your study (e.g., sampling issues, biases, methodological or time limitations).

Additional Comments from instructor:

First, remember that this is a research proposal. Your goal is to highlight a social topic or problem (with three themes linked to it) with at least one cultural aspect (e.g., norms, language, behavior, definitions, interactions, etc.) in the United States. In the introduction, you give some background on the topic and very briefly introduce the outline of your paper, your research question(s), and the significance of your topic (justifying why the study would be a good idea). Remember, it’s an introduction, so keep it brief and use broad terms. You will build on this more later in the paper. In highlighting your goal, the literature review serves as a way to summarize what previous people have said about the topic. You should integrate your sources in the literature review. Do not summarize each article as a separate entity, but discuss the themes in terms of what has been found by those who conducted research in the past. This should be as recent as you can get the information. Post-2005 is preferable. Remember that your sources do not need to be exactly about your topic and themes, but they should be comparable. Explain why the cases should be applicable to what you want to study. Your methods section is outlining different approaches to research, strengths and weaknesses of those approaches, and ultimately what method would be used if the study being proposed was actually conducted. Why that method? What gives that particular method (or combined methods if you choose to do two) an advantage?

Second, your expected findings section is just what you would think the results of the study would be. You can build your argument on two sources of information: the literature and your observations. When discussing observations, you can say things like, “Based on preliminary observations…” when you lead into a comment on what you would expect. This is an opportunity to outline a few things in more detail than you have in the introduction and conclusion. While you can touch on the importance of the study and what it will contribute, you do not have much room in those sections to explain in detail. You can go into more detail here, while discussing potential holes or areas that could be improved upon in the previous literature (that is, just work that has been done on or related to the topic in the past).

When writing your expected findings section, you can also keep these points in mind: “Just because you don’t have to actually conduct the study and analyze the results, it doesn’t mean you can skip talking about the analytical process and potential implications. The purpose of this section is to argue how and in what ways you believe your research will refine, revise, or extend existing knowledge in the subject area under investigation. Depending on the aims and objectives of your study, describe how the anticipated results will impact future scholarly research, theory, practice, forms of interventions, or policymaking. Note that such discussions may have either substantive [a potential new policy], theoretical [a potential new understanding], or methodological [a potential new way of analyzing] significance.”