DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING 2 Differentiated Learning: an Educational Tool to Alleviate Racism One of the most effective ways to write a good introduction is to save it for later, once you have explored the research problem and developed your solutions-based argument. Regardless of when you write your introduction, you must make sure that in contains the following elements: 1) You should first give a general presentation of the research problem. 2) You should then lay out exactly what you are trying to achieve with this particular research project. 3) You should then state your own position in the form of a thesis statement. In short, the introduction is a general overview of you research paper. A good introduction should be around 150-200 words and must include a thesis statement. Literature Review After the introduction comes the Literature Review section. Aim to write at least 500-600 words, but please do not confuse this with a Literary Analysis. This is not that. In this section you are not analyzing but reviewing at least 4 scholarly articles that will help explain your issue at a deeper level. This section is called a literature review because its focus is to objectively present what scholars say about your issue. Here you want to concentrate on presenting a fair and objective, fact-based overview of the issue. In this section you are not concentrating on arguing but on explaining the researcher’s methodology/approach and summarizing the researcher’s findings. Avoid adding your opinion about the issue in this section. You can, however, give your opinion about the effectiveness or importance of a given study, but always in third person. Here is a bullet point of what each article review should consist of: the author and title of article the authors discipline and methods DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING 3 a summary of the article’s main points one or two quotes from the article in APA style (very short quotes), an explanation of the relevance of the article to what you are trying explore and understand Transitions that lead into and make connections between articles In organizing your literature review paragraphs, think in terms of a thematic layout. For example, you may want to start with an article that gives a general overview of the problem and then follow up with articles that provide a more specific point of view or approach or you may arrange paragraphs according to similarities (i.e. articles with similar ideas next to each other). The goal is to make connections and transition effectively from one article to the next. Make sure that you use attributive tags when summarizing and use quotations in APA style, but do not let the quotes dominate your paragraphs. In citing make sure you are citing in APA style. For example, “In citing make sure you are citing in APA style” (Gomez, 2019, p. 14). You will end the literature review section with a transition paragraph that is like a conclusion of this section that leads the reading.

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Differentiated Learning: an Educational Tool to Alleviate
Racism
One of the most effective ways to write a good introduction is
to save it for later, once you have explored the research problem
and developed your solutions-based argument. Regardless of
when you write your introduction, you must make sure that in
contains the following elements: 1) You should first give a
general presentation of the research problem. 2) You should
then lay out exactly what you are trying to achieve with this
particular research project. 3) You should then state your own
position in the form of a thesis statement. In short, the
introduction is a general overview of you research paper. A
good introduction should be around 150-200 words and must
include a thesis statement.
Literature Review
After the introduction comes the Literature Review section. Aim
to write at least 500-600 words, but please do not confuse this
with a Literary Analysis. This is not that. In this section you are
not analyzing but reviewing at least 4 scholarly articles that will
help explain your issue at a deeper level. This section is called
a literature review because its focus is to objectively present
what scholars say about your issue. Here you want to
concentrate on presenting a fair and objective, fact-based
overview of the issue. In this section you are not concentrating
on arguing but on explaining the researcher’s
methodology/approach and summarizing the researcher’s
findings. Avoid adding your opinion about the issue in this
section. You can, however, give your opinion about the
effectiveness or importance of a given study, but always in third
person.

2. Here is a bullet point of what each article review should consist
of:
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quotes),
trying explore and understand
articles
In organizing your literature review paragraphs, think in terms
of a thematic layout. For example, you may want to start with
an article that gives a general overview of the problem and then
follow up with articles that provide a more specific point of
view or approach or you may arrange paragraphs according to
similarities (i.e. articles with similar ideas next to each other).
The goal is to make connections and transition effectively from
one article to the next. Make sure that you use attributive tags
when summarizing and use quotations in APA style, but do not
let the quotes dominate your paragraphs. In citing make sure
you are citing in APA style. For example, “In citing make sure
you are citing in APA style” (Gomez, 2019, p. 14). You will end
the literature review section with a transition paragraph that is
like a conclusion of this section that leads the reading into the
discussion sections. This paragraph should include Synthesize

3. all four articles by explaining what the overall findings suggests
and should talk about further research needed to learn about
possible solutions, which is what you will discuss in the
Discussion section. The discussion section will be about an
action plan to improve the issue.
Discussion
The discussion section should be at least 500 words and should
contain an effective organizational pattern, with transitions
between paragraphs. This section must include at least three
quotes from two more research articles that speak about
solutions to the issue at hand.
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Continue to use the MDC database or try this website,
Solution
s Story Tracker: https://storytracker.solutionsjournalism.org/
which offers solutions based journalism where you can find
innovative actions being taken by people around the country to
improve our society’s ailments. Find two articles and analyze
their contribution. What makes the organization or action plan
effective? What are some important take a ways?
Having analyzed the solutions, contribute some ideas of your
own and argue for the need to action while explaining what
needs to be taken into consideration to solve the issue. Your

4. discussion is your argument. This is where you support your
thesis statement more fully. Answer this: based on what you
have learned from your literature review, and from the solutions
articles, what is the best approach in tackling the issue at hand?
Why should your solution be adopted by the reader? As you
develop your argument, engage the reader in thinking critically
about the issue based upon an evidence-based interpretation of
your findings. This section should demonstrate your ability as a
researcher to think critically about an issue, to develop creative
solutions to problems based upon a logical synthesis of the
findings, and to formulate a deeper, more profound
understanding of the research problem under investigation.
Conclusion
This section should be around 150-200 words. Recap the main
points of your essay. Emphasize the significance of taking
action. Explain what further studies should be done. This
section should be around 200 words. Recap the main points of
your essay. Emphasize the significance of taking action.
Explain what further studies should be done. This section
should be around 200 words. Recap the main points of your
essay. Emphasize the significance of taking action. Explain
what further studies should be done. This section should be
around 200 words. Recap the main points of your essay.

5. Emphasize the significance of taking action. Explain what
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further studies should be done. Recap the main points of your
essay. Emphasize the significance of taking action. Explain
what further studies should be done. PLEASE SEE SAMPLE
REFERENCE PAGE ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE.
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