Aquinas College America’s Infrastructure Discussion

It’s time to develop your tentative thesis statement and subtopics for the body of your research.

You’ll need to develop a solid thesis statement.The thesis statement is typically the last sentence of your introduction.A thesis statement is not your opinion or a matter of fact, it is a clear and concise statement (argument) that you support in your paper (examples ):

Topic: America’s Infrastructure

Disciplines: (Government and Engineering)

Problem Statement: According to the American Society of CivilEngineers (2017), there hasn’t been improvement in the state of America’stransportation, water, energy, education and waste management programs in fouryears.

Research Question: How can the government get a better reportcard on America’s infrastructure?

Thesis Statement: The government must increase spending toimprove the nation’s infrastructure to strengthen business productivity and thegross domestic product in order to restore the countries global competitiveadvantage.

Topic: Preventable Diseases

Disciplines: (Business and Health)

Problem Statement: Heart disease kills over a half million peopleeach year in the United States, but 80% of Americans do not get the recommendedamount of exercise for reducing the risk of heart disease (CDC, 2018).

Research Question: How would an exercise program affect a company’sbottom line?

Thesis Statement: Businesses should allow employees to exerciseduring work hours because companies make more money in healthcare cost savingsthan they lose in production due to an exercise program.

Topic: Juvenile Offenders

Disciplines: (Criminal Justice and Psychology)

Problem Statement: There are over 2,100 child offenders servinglife sentences without possibility for parole in Untied States and over 16%were under the age of 15 when they committed their crimes (Rovner,2018).

Research Question: Why should life sentencing of juveniles bedifferent than the sentencing of adults for severecrimes?

Thesis Statement: Adolescents should be sentenced differentlythan adults for severe crimes because the juvenile mind is more susceptible topeer pressure, less able to assess consequences and more able to grow and berehabilitated.

Subtopics are the headings that identify the main body of your research. You need to create 3-5 subheadings based on the research you have done. For example, a student studying the effects of overtime on nursing staff burnout might have collected research that leads to three subheadings: Statistics of Nursing Overtime, Causes of Nursing Burnout, and Psychological Effects of Burnout.

Note** The subheadings in your research do not include your conclusions or inferences, they simply synthesize and present the information from the research you have collected into coherent sections.Do not present results in your subheading sections.

Criteria for Thesis & Subheadings:

Title

Introduction (this may come from week 1) – include your tentative thesis statement

3-5 subheadings – include topic sentences that describe what is covered under each subheading and transition sentences that lead to the next subheading

References – Include references used in this paper

Your completed assignment should be written third person and should be 5 pages in length (not including title page and references). Your assignment should use APA style formatting.