Stakeholder Perspectives Paper

Task:

Write a three page (minimum) paper that utilizes your best collegiate writing skills to identify a public argument, explain two contrasting stakeholder perspectives, and conclude with a review of shared values and opportunities for future solutions.  

Purpose: 

As the only considerable writing assignment of our summer course, this paper acts as an evaluation of your ability to show off your critical thinking skills through an analysis of competing/contrasting stakeholder perspectives.

Moreover, as a piece of argumentative writing, this paper evaluates your ability to analyze argumentative form and reasoning.  You are expected to use your best research and writing skills to complete this paper. Your analysis of the argument you’ve chosen will be evaluated  based on your ability to synthesize your own original research about the artifact in a way that clearly explains your understanding of the stakeholders, spheres, and key claims involved. 

Criteria: 

The paper should identify a clear public argument issue in the introduction, develop an analysis of two contrasting stakeholder perspectives in the body of the paper, and effectively review the shared values and opportunities for future solutions. 

The paper should be written and edited to demonstrate collegiate writing and grammar skills representative of a university student. 

The argument should be developed with at least five clear and relevant references to secondary research associated with the artifact. 

The Introduction Paragraph Should:

Capture the audiences attention (avoid rhetorical questions, set up the argument with interest)

Introduce and describe the public argument (what is it?)

Explain the significance (why do we care?)

Clearly set up and explain the two perspectives to the argument (what are the two stakeholder perspectives you are investigating?)

You should establish this thesis using declarative language. 

Example: In this paper, I will analyze __________ (issue) from two perspectives. I will first describe __________________ perspective that believes _________________ about (issue). Secondly, I will detail ___________________ perspective that believes ____________ about (issue). Finally, I will consider opportunities for these two sides to come together in the future”

Note: This preview should be unique to your artifact.

Note – this is not meant to be copy and pasted, this is just one example – there are hundreds of correct alternatives to structure your paper. This is just to illustrate how you might adapt signposts to punctuate your preview of main points clearly for your reader.

The Three Main Points Should:

The first point should identify a technical sphere stakeholder.  This main point needs to accomplish at least three tasks: 

How is this stakeholder related to the public argument?

What is their opinion about how the public argument should be resolved?  

Identify one of their main claims, analyze the claim: 

What is the source of the claim? What makes them credible in the technical sphere?

What type of claim is it? (Fact/Value/Policy)

Are there any important qualifiers or reservations built into the claim?

What type of data is provided (statistics, narrative, etc.)What type of reasoning is used? (sign, generalization, example, analogy, correlation, etc.)

The second point should identify a public sphere stakeholder. This main point needs to accomplish at least three tasks:

How is this stakeholder related to the public argument?

What is their opinion about how the public argument should be resolved?  

Identify one of their main claims, analyze the claim: 

What is the source of the claim?

What makes them credible in the public sphere?

What type of claim is it? (Fact/Value/Policy)

Are there any important qualifiers or reservations built into the claim?

What type of data is provided (statistics, narrative, etc.)What type of reasoning is used? (sign, generalization, example, analogy, correlation, etc.)

The third main point should compare these two distinct perspectives and describe an opportunity where a future solution or resolution can be made. This main point should address three questions:

What do they agree on? 

What facts and values do they share? Identify at least one or two. 

What, if any, proposed polices would both stakeholders support? 

Is there a middle ground? Or alternative solution? 

Are there other stakeholders that might be able to bring these two together? 

How could this issue be solved? 

Who is the best actor to solve this issue? The United Nations, the US Supreme Court, the President, Congress, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas? 

What organizations are working to solve this issue now? 

What proposed solutions might work for both stakeholder groups?

The conclusion should: 

Your conclusion paragraph should summarize the significance of the public issue you’ve selected, briefly review the positions of the stakeholders identified, and describe what will happen if this issue is not resolved. Where possible, the paper should close optimistically with a description of how both perspectives might overcome their differences to reach a future agreement. 

Overall:

Every paragraph should include a clear APA reference to support your key claim (source, year). You (2019) are encouraged to keep “direct quotes” short and prioritize paraphrasing (p. #).

Top scoring papers will use more than five pieces of secondary support.