NGO Persuasive Research Paper & Links

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
Persuasive Research Paper
Globish 2017-2018
(Global Key Ideas: 10.8, 10.9, 10.10)

Purpose and Topic
Students today are expected to be able to read myriad nonfiction documents, draw conclusions from them and generate claims supported by textual evidence.  You are also expected to be citizens of our beautiful Adirondack Park and of the global community.   This research project will meet both of those expectations by focusing your personal interests on a global scale.

You will choose and research a non–governmental organization (NGO) that is extant today and persuade your reader to donate to its cause.  To successfully do this, your paper should explain the NGOs purpose, the problem(s) it tries to solve, how it is currently  helping others (or in the recent past), describe how it allocates its resources and determine to what extent the NGO is successful at combating the issue(s) identified. If you come across any controversial information on your NGO, you should also include that in your paper to be as transparent as possible to your reader.  You must use textual evidence to support your claims.  

What is an NGO?
According to Non-Governmental Organization.org, “[a] non-governmental organization (NGO) is any non-profit, voluntary citizens' group which is organized on a local, national or international level. Task-oriented and driven by people with a common interest, NGOs perform a variety of services and humanitarian functions, bring citizen concerns to Governments, advocate and monitor policies and encourage political participation through provision of information. Some are organized around specific issues, such as human rights, environment or health. They provide analysis and expertise, serve as early warning mechanisms and help monitor and implement international agreements. Their relationship with offices and agencies of the United Nations system differs depending on their goals, their venue and the mandate of a particular institution.”

Schedule of Events
1.     Choose two to three NGOs that are helping solve crises outside of North America  that interest you and spend some time reading about each one.
2.     Narrow your topic to one NGO; meet with Mr. Bosworth and Ms. Spicer to record your choice.
3.  Write a list of questions you need to find the answers to in order to write this paper.
4.     Using the internet, school databases and books, read and compile the pertinent information and textual evidence about the NGO using the criteria above.
  • The New York Times - Must Use; you have free access
  • Charity Navigator - Must Use
  • Gale Power Search
  • Gale Research in Context
5.     Print out sources and record them in your NoodleTools account.  Keep all information in your research
     folder.
6.     Read, highlight and take notes from your sources using clear sub topics (we will review these) and the note sheets (or notes in NoodleTools).
7.     Write your outline using the Harvard format.
8.     Type your first draft in a Google Doc and share it with Mr. Bosworth and Ms. Spicer.  Include your
    quotations, in-text citations and Noodle Tools generated Works Cited page.
9.     Peer edit and make changes.
10.  Upload your paper to TurnItIn.com to check for inadvertently plagiarized material.
11.  Read TurnItIn.com response.
12.   Make final changes to your drafts with the Works Cited page. Please also hand in your entire research
    folder.



Guidelines for the Final Paper
1.     Please type your paper in size 12 with one-inch margins
2.     Use at least four quotations
3.     Properly cite four sources (minimum)
4.     Use NoodleTools to compile a Works Cited page
5.     Use the Modern Language Association (MLA) format
6.     Incorporate sophisticated vocabulary words from your SAT vocabulary lists
7.   Use a semicolon

Plagiarized papers will receive a zero.





Helpful Links
The following link leads to the  2012 Top 100 NGOs from The Global Journal:


  This list “features NGOs from 27 countries and working across a range of sectors: from building a fleet of motorbikes and off-road ambulances to ensure the delivery of vital healthcare resources across Africa, to pioneering video as a popular tool for the protection of human rights . . .  The Global Journal considered a pool of approximately 450 NGOs this year based on three key criteria: impact, innovation and sustainability” (“The Global Journal”).


The following link leads to the UN Global Issues Overview page. This website allows you to explore global issues in brief as well as below the surface:

The following link leads to the Lake Placid MS/HS Library database collection:
The following link leads to Charity Navigator:




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