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Summarize, making sure to identify:

· the problem

· populations affected by the problem

· location of the problem, if applicable

Whatever your research problem is, you will need to summarize the proof that the problem exists today by providing an ‘example’ of your research problem happening in the world.

For your ‘example’, you will use a news article or even your research articles for KG-604, but in other courses it may be a case study from your textbook, a summary of the problem provided by your professors, or you may need to find a relevant ‘case’ on your own.

1. Identify the problem:

2. Identify populations affected:

3. Identify the location:

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Find and summarize an existing evidence-based solution to use as a foundation to YOUR recommendation.

Conduct further research to find a company/organization/

program/policy that is doing a good job trying to mitigate this problem (this could be from another state or even another country where populations are comparable).

· Include the name of company/organization/

program/policy:

· Include detailed evidence that this ‘solution’ is working (do not forget to include dates/years, and statistics as support):

· Identify specific ‘parts’ of the ‘solution’ that you think will be useful and define/summarize them:

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Form your recommendation

Use your selected company/organization/

program/policy as a basis for your recommendation.

Connect this recommendation to the research problem.

· Identify what is the same and different between your research population and the ‘solution’s’ population:

Same:

Different:

· Explain how you envision the “specific parts of the ‘solution’” helping to mitigate your research problem:

· What must be changed/altered to work for YOUR problem?: