Research inquiry on the problem of gambling addiction

For this assignment, you have located scholarly and popular sources that frame an issue differently for different audiences to achieve different purposes. You will now synthesize these sources to create an understanding of an issue that a single source cannot express and take a stance on that issue. Successful essays will avoid binary thinking, generalizations, and absolutes and instead appreciate complexity with relative terms and evaluative language.

This essay’s argumentative statement must make an argument about the issue – about a perspective on the issue, the issue’s significance, or plans on how to address the issue – using evaluative language and a subordinating conjunction. Successful research essays will place different sources in conversation with each other at the paragraph level to synthesize larger understandings of the issue (or aspects of it). The introduction and conclusion should complement each other and seem somehow related. The introduction should feature an original hook and avoid clichés. The conclusion should avoid summary and explicitly repeating previous passages.

This essay should use at least four but no more than six sources (at least two of which must be scholarly sources), feature edited, grammatically sound, and error-free prose, and include all the features of the Modern Language Association’s ninth edition guidelines: an original title, the correct information in the correct order of the first four lines, correctly-credited sources, twelve-point Times New Roman font, and appropriate spacing. The final draft of this essay should be between five and six complete pages (not including the work cited page).

In addition to the four to six written sources, you may include two digital sources (such as social media posts or memes) but may only use them as primary sources in your essay. These sources might be useful for writing an introduction, a conclusion, or both.