Reflecting on Sources

Be sure to cite all sources in APA format, including using in-text citations and reference page citations in the spaces provided. The writing should be in Standard English and complete sentences. The sources noted in this worksheet should be related to your “big idea,” which is the basis of your final project in this course.

Save this document to your computer, and submit it through the Unit 4 dropbox, per the instructions in the classroom under Unit 4’s Project Description. Part I: Pre-Interview Worksheet Directions: Complete each section of the Pre-Interview Worksheet below. Although students are not required to conduct an interview as research for the final project, the process of thinking about potential questions and responses related to the final project topic will help stimulate further ideas and questions related to conducting relevant and reliable research.

Of course, you may also decide to interview the person discussed here or another appropriate subject and use the material in your upcoming projects as a primary source. Interviewer Name| Ebony Nicholas| Interviewee Name| President Barack Obama| Interview Method| Email| Interview Location| If interviewing in person, where will it be conducted? | Have you seen the location yet? Not applicable| Interviewee Research| Using complete sentences, describe the information you have found about the interviewee. Also, discuss why you have selected this person to interview.

Include an in-text citation if you use information from a source (e. g. , website). He is the 44th and current president of the United States. He is a graduate of Columbus University and Harvard Law School. He called for Congress to pass legislation reforming health care in the United States. He proposed an expansion of health insurance coverage to cover the uninsured, to cap premium increases, and to allow people to keep their coverage when they leave or change jobs. Obama signed the health care bill into law on March 23, 2010, featuring a public option also known as “government insurance plan”.

I am interviewing President Obama because he is the one that called for a reform in health care, so all of my answers lie in his hands. I agree with his decision to change the health care system and would like to know his honest opinion about our health care in the United States. On CBS News home page there an article interviewing President Obama written by Stephanie Condon that states, “President Obama said that one of the biggest questions he has had about his leadership as president was the slow pace of health care reform.

Following up with, “Mr. Obama made health care reform his first major priority as president” (Stephanie Condon, 2011). | Interview Topic Research| Using complete sentences, discuss any information you already know or research you have found about the interview topic. Be sure to cite any information taken from sources. I have experienced many occasions where bad health care was administered and saw the need for a change. I have read quite a few articles about health care, president Obamas reform, and bad health insurance administration.

I have realized while researching this topic that health care is a huge problem in the United States. I learned that President Obama launched a health care reform to try to fix the problem dealing with health care including reducing costs, physician involvement, and insurance. The bill passed in 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is enacted by President Barack Obama, providing of a complete system of authorized health insurance with reforms designed to eliminate “some of the worst practices of the insurance companies” (Wiki, 2011, pp. 1). | Primary Questions|

List a minimum of three open questions and three closed questions you would ask the interviewee. Open: 1. ) Politicians have tried for decades to push universal health insurance. Why do you think they always failed before? Why do you think this time would be any different? 2. ) You say health care reform will save us money, but others say we’ll have to pay more in taxes. Who’s right? 3. ) You keep talking about expanding insurance coverage by cutting Medicare. Why do you think that health reform would be good for seniors? Closed: 1. ) There’s a fine for not having insurance.

How does the government know whether you have insurance or not? 2. ) What would it take to repeal health care reform? 3. ) What are the new health care reform benefits that start in 2011? | Reasoning Behind Asking These Questions| Describe your reasoning behind this line of questioning. I want to answer a lot of the concerns questions that people have about the new health care reform. I want to find out why this new reform is good for us, or if it is good at all. I also want to find out how is this going to help health care overall. | Anticipated Responses to Questions|

Discuss how you think the interviewee might respond to the questions; consider body language that might be seen I will be conducting this interview via email so I will not get the chance to examine his body language. I think he will answer the question like a president is trained to do. I think he will expecting these type of questions if any seem a little harsh for some reason, I think he will show no signs of discomfort. Considering this is his reform I think he will answer the questions fully, with no questioning behind his thoughts. | Secondary Questions|

List three questions that you intend to ask if there is time or if the interviewee seems open to more questions. 1. ) Are employers required to offer insurance to their employees? 2. ) How does the Affordable Care Act help young adults? 3. ) If people like their current health plan, can they keep it? | References for Part I| If you used in-text citations for research in the above Pre-Interview Worksheet, provide the full APA citation here for the source. References * Stolberg, Sheryl Gay; Pear, Robert (March 24, 2010). “Obama signs health care overhaul bill, with a flourish”.

The New York Times: p. A19. Retrieved March 23, 2010. * “Birth Certificate of Barack Obama”. Department of Health, Hawaii. PolitiFact. com. August 8, 1961. Retrieved December 12, 2008. * Lori Montgomery and Shailagh Murray, “Lawmakers Warned About Health Costs: CBO Chief Says Democrats’ Proposals Lack Necessary Controls on Spending,” The Washington Post, July 17, 2009 * Stephanie Condon, “Obama regrets not passing health care reform more quickly” CBS News, April 20, 2011| [Please scroll down for Part II of the Project. ] Part II: Three Secondary Sources

Directions: Now provide information about three secondary sources related to your final project topic. You are not necessarily required to use these sources in the final project, though the sources noted below should be reliable and relevant as potential sources to support your thesis statement’s argument. Use complete sentences and paragraph format to summarize the information you intend to use from the source, assess the credibility and significance of the source, and reflect on how you will use the information to support or counter your argument. One of the sources noted below should clearly oppose your stance on your topic.

Source 1: | Summarize, assess, and reflect on the source. I have found a really good article that supports my big idea and thesis to the fullest. This article is scientifically written. It has research on the background of health insurance and the lack of it, the method the authors used to get to the proposal of the argument, and the results of the method, which is the statement that, “there is The number of adults in their 50s and 60s in the United States who do not have health insurance is increasing. This group may be particularly vulnerable to the ill effects of being uninsured. (David W. Baker, 2001; 345:1106-111).

This article shows the lack in health insurance and the need for health care reform. It is physical evidence that people who need health insurance is not getting it, concluding that the United States health care system is ineffective. | Source 2: | Summarize, assess, and reflect on the source. This article, “Will real health reform ever happen in America? ” Talk about even if we do have a new healthcare reform, will it work? They also ask questions on how it will work, putting their own opinion in about what they think will work and what needs to happen.

I think this article helps my with my argument because I also question what is really going to work with helping out our health care system. I think this article does a great thing by comparing our health care system to many others around the world, also in the western hemisphere. I can site that sentence in my argument about how our health care should be the best in the world considering our status amongst other countries. | Source 3: | Summarize, assess, and reflect on the source. This book “Health care Reform”, examines the debate over health care reform.

It includes the legislation that has reformed the issue as well as the numerous sides of each argument. It includes an overview of the U. S. health care system. It also includes Medicare, Medicaid, and HMOs. Economic concerns as well as political aspects, including President Obama’s latest plans for improvement are in this book. | [Please scroll down for Part III of the Project. ] Part III: References Directions: Use the next page to create a references page for the sources cited in Part II above. Create full citations for each source in APA format, order the citations alphabetically, and use a hanging indent.