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Running Head: RESEARCH ESSAY
ENGLISH ESSAY
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DATE: 10/7/2016
RESEARCH ESSAY
Times were tough when I was first elected mayor of Tampa. The crack epidemic had just
started, and the problem was rampant. We went into some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods and
did surveys. We didn’t tell them what they wanted; we held community meetings and asked
them. The people from one neighborhood just north of downtown told us that one of the worst
problems for them was inadequate lighting. It was one of the oldest neighborhoods in Tampa,
and they had a large number of old, overgrown trees that had obscured the street lighting.
We’re going to call them up, invite them to a meeting, and ask them if they’ll do it for free.
“The staff all looked at me as if I were absolutely nuts, but I said, “What have we got to lose?
The worst they can say is no.” We had a meeting in city council chambers in City Hall, and about
fifty of them showed up. They probably thought I was crazy. “Here’s our problem,” I said.
“These people live in a neighborhood overrun with crack. They say the worst part of it is that
there is no lighting and the crack dealers are totally hidden. But the city can’t afford to pay for
tree trimming. Will you trim the trees? This is what we’ll do in return: If you do it on a Saturday,
we’ll bring you donuts and coffee and we will provide you with T shirts.
Then at lunchtime we’ll bring you Cuban sandwiches. “They went to the neighborhood one
Saturday and did about 75 percent of the job. The neighbors were so excited that they were out
there giving them food and drinks. The tree trimmers said they’d be there next Saturday to finish
the job. But Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida that week, so we thought we’d never see them
again. They had all gone down to Miami, which is what happens in Florida after a hurricane. A
couple of months went by, and their association contacted us and said, “We’re back in town. We
want to finish the job. Can we go back out there next Saturday?” We gave them the same deal -breakfast and lunch — and they finished the job.
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It is amazing what you can do if you ask people — just ask them, and do it in the right way.
You don’t say, “The city wants you to do this.” You make it clear that it is the people who are
asking. For instance, we started a program called Paint Your Heart Out, Tampa! We had people
in the nonprofit sector with knowledge of housing go out and identify homes of seniors or
disabled people who didn’t have the resources to do much-needed home repairs, a paint job, or a
cleanup. The first year we did one hundred homes, and it was all volunteer: the paint brushes, the
ladders, everything. Paint Your Heart Out, Tampa! is still going strong and happens every April
on a Saturday. The banks and real estate companies and nonprofits have teams that go out and
make a day of it. They do roof repairs, they fix the landscaping, they mow the yards, and they
bond with the residents. It really is a community effort.
The city throws a big party to celebrate all of the volunteer effort.
We created another program, the Friends of Beau-tification. We had a very good parks
department to do our landscaping and beautification work, but I thought we could do so much
more if we had a nonprofit organization involved, a group of people who were interested in
gardening. Over the years, that nonprofit has probably done twenty million dollars worth of
plantings. When the ice arena was built for the hockey team, volunteers did the planting. They
did the same for the cruise ship terminal and aquarium. If you ask people to do something they
have an interest in, such as gardening, they’ll do it as a matter of community pride. But I think
most cities don’t ask often enough for volunteer help, and they also don’t involve the citizens in
decision making.
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We had a high percentage of substandard housing in Tampa, and I felt that we had to
have decent and affordable housing. The first thing I did as mayor was initiate a housing
survey, which is something we had never done before. We didn’t have any money because
times were tough, not unlike the way they are now; to do the survey, which we couldn’t
afford, I asked the fire department to go out and learn what was happening in their city. I
reasoned that they needed to know their districts, so it made sense for them to do the housing
survey.
The results showed that a large percentage of housing was substandard.
The Community Reinvestment Act, which was passed to encourage banks to provide
credit to people from all parts of the community, including low-and moderate-income
residents, was in place, but it wasn’t being widely used. The bankers didn’t like it because at
that time they had to file all these compliance forms, so we went to them and said, “If you
allow us to do loans, we will process the loans for you. We’ll teach our people and also
people in the nonprofit sector how to process loans, and we’ll backstop the loans with federal
Community Development Block Grant [CDBG] funds.” They were a little leery, but they all
jumped on board. We taught our staff and people in the nonprofit sector — preservation
groups and homeless groups — how to do the processing, and little by little we started a
housing program that turned out to be a model in the country.
David Osborne and Ted Gaebler wrote about it in their book, Reinventing Government.
The Mayor’s Challenge Fund had many facets. We had the nonprofit sector doing the
loans, and they got a percentage of the loan, which they used to create a revolving fund. By
the time I left office, we had every bank and every credit union in the city of Tampa
involved. They put up loans, and the city backstopped them with CDBG funds, which was
RESEARCH ESSAY
what they were really intended for.
We started with remodeling, putting the roof on, doing the necessary things to keep people
in their homes. Over time, however, we wound up not only doing those rehab projects but
also building new homes. Homebuilders got involved, and we were doing a couple thousand
houses a year, which was extraordinary. Residents in neighborhoods would get involved
because it was helpful to them to have a house in disrepair rehabbed, or a new house or a lot
that wasn’t overgrown and used for dealing drugs.
We started in two neighborhoods and then expanded citywide. They were very poor
neighborhoods that really needed it. If one house falls into disrepair, the next house may not
be kept up as well. It has a domino effect. Many of them were older buildings, and the
weather in Tampa makes the housing stock decline a little more rapidly than in some other
places, so it was just a win-win all the way around.
We’d get buses and take people — business leaders and community leaders — on tours to
neighborhoods they’d never seen before. If you are working for a bank and making a couple
hundred thousand dollars a year, you don’t go to certain parts of town. Once they saw what
was going on, people wanted to be a part of it. Other communities would visit to see how it
worked, and they’d go back and modify our program to serve their particular needs.
What lessons did we learn from this program? First, you may not have a lot of money, but
you can be creative and make something work. Second, neighborhood involvement is
critical. If the people who were affected hadn’t supported it, the program would not have
worked as well as it did. Third, you must involve people.
RESEARCH ESSAY
CONCLUSION
I don’t have my finger on the pulse of communities the way I did when I was mayor, but I
think I know what works in communities. The top-down approach doesn’t work. For people
to be supportive of new ideas, policies, and programs, the stakeholders have to buy in, which
means they have to be part of the decision-making process. It takes a lot longer that way; it is
a little messy sometimes, and you have to keep going back to the stakeholders to make
modifications from time to time. But it has much longer-lasting results. Some communities
have known it for a long time, and others still don’t know about it.
You need to have that dialogue and open exchange. It’s a win-win all the way around, but
it is messy. These days, when communities are tinder the gun financially and are having to
cut programs, it is important to have discussions about where and how to cut. Politicians
have their favorite programs and their favorite people. Do you want a playground, or do you
want lighting? In this environment you can’t do everything, so find out what the people really
want, as opposed what you think they want, or what you’ve been doing all along. That is the
way government has to work now. It should have been working that way all along, but with
limited resources you’d better be doing what the public wants.
RESEARCH ESSAY
References
Gaebler, T., and Osborne, D. Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit Is
Transforming the Public Sector. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1992
National Civic Review, Spring 2011, Vol. 100 Issue 1, p33, 4p
Sandra W. Freedman is chair of the National Civic League Board of Directors. She served as
mayor of Tampa, Florida, from 1986 to 1995.
National Civic Review 100 no1 33-6 Spr 2011
can someone please just read the instruction and write my research paper based on my
assignment??? ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION Determine the pattern that will provide the most
effective support for your claim. Arguments of Fact Arguments of Definition Evaluations Causal
Arguments Proposal Are We in a Race against the Machine? Is College the Best Option? Is Fast Food
the New Tobacco? Is Higher Education Worth the Price? Is Pop Culture Actually Good for Us? What
Should We Eat? What’s Gender Got to Do with It? What’s Up with the American Dream? Why Does It
Matter Who Wins the Big Game? BRAINSTORMING Determine the issue that is currently being
debated publicly, about the concept(s) of reading, writing, and responding in academic settings. How
will you connect the employer concerns to your readings? Make sure that your focus is debatable
rather than a simple black-and -white concern. RESEARCH & ANALYSIS After you’ve settled on a
debatable claim, follow these steps: Once you have chosen your 4-5 sources from the Triton
Database begin to analyze them. An obvious place to begin would be by sketching out the rhetorical
situations for each text, as well as for the larger context of the debate in which they exist. You might
also ask who the authors (or rhetors) are and what their values, motivations, and constraints might
be. Next, you should analyze the arguments that the authors are making. What are their points? Do
they disagree on everything? What kinds of evidence do they use? Do they seem to believe that the
same things even count as evidence? Provide background information on the debate and the texts
you chose to analyze. Make your claim(s) and provide the textual evidence from your analysis to
support your claims. End your essay with some sort of “so what?” TelI your readers, who are most
likely your teacher and classmates, why it would be useful to have this analysis and why it is
important to understand how texts are constructed and how meaning is made-or not. REVISING
Good, thoughtful work usually takes time, planning, and reconsideration. What you’ve been asked to
do in this activity is not easy, and you are more likely to write an effective text if you take the time to
get feedback from some other writers you trust. Work with one or more classmates or a writing
center tutor, and ask them if they think that you have effectively completed the assignment. For
example, ask them the following: Have you given thoughtful reasons for why the sources have taken
their position? Do they think you need more evidence? Do they believe your claims? Are they
persuaded by the evidence that you provide? Consider your tutor and peer feedback and make
appropriate revisions. Note that at this point in the drafting process, you would do well to focus your
revisions on global issues rather than fixating on eliminating “errors” or finding bigger words to use.
This assignment asks you to conduct a careful analysis, and that is what your revision should focus on
strengthening. WHAT MAKES IT GOOD? Your essay will be evaluated in terms of how well it
accomplishes the goals set out. Remember that your essay should answer the following question:
Why do authors of texts in the debate on X disagree? And how? A strong essay will do the following:
Orient the reader by initially providing enough background information on the debate and the three
texts you chose to analyze; Make clear claim(s) in answer to the question; Provide textual evidence
that is convincing and clear to the reader; Be organized in such a way that the reader can follow
along without having to work to figure out where you are going; and Be polished and edited so that
the reader understands what you are arguing and is not distracted from your claims. Sources: In your
research, you would need to find articles (both scholarly and mainstream press) that support (argue
for) or against your viewpoint and build a framework in your essay that not only supports your view
but also examines the counter arguments brought by other stakeholders. Ideally, your argument will
be sophisticated, in that it does not just see two sides in black and white, but sees multiple opinions
(or counter arguments), while firmly supporting your own viewpoint. Your sources should be credible
. You must cite at least 4 – 5 sources. You should show that you are able to evaluate credibility in the
selection of your sources. Selected information should always be relevant to the central argument as
well as quoted or paraphrased correctly to support each claim. They should also be well integrated
into developed paragraphs and not just be dropped in but contextualized. Sources must be from the
Triton Database
ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION ( please make sure you use Triton College database for your research) if
you would need more information like my student ID card number I would gladly send it to you,
please send me an email, thank you) And one more think My research essay should be around 1250
words thanks.I really apreciate your work.
Everything’s an Argument: Select a pattern of organization for your research essay from
options below and read the corresponding chapter from the textbook. You will need to determine a
claim for your argument before you select an organizational pattern. Determine the pattern that will
provide the most effective support for your claim.
Arguments of Fact
Arguments of Definition
Evaluations
Causal Arguments
Proposal
They Say Blog – select one of the categories on the right side of the page to determine a topic that
you’ll research in greater detail for your essay 3. For example,
Are We in a Race against the Machine?
Is College the Best Option?
Is Fast Food the New Tobacco?
Is Higher Education Worth the Price?
Is Pop Culture Actually Good for Us?
What Should We Eat?
What’s Gender Got to Do with It?
What’s Up with the American Dream?
Why Does It Matter Who Wins the Big Game?
BRAINSTORMING
Determine the issue that is currently being debated publicly, about the concept(s) of reading, writing,
and responding in academic settings. How will you connect the employer concerns to your readings?
Make sure that your focus is debatable rather than a simple black-and -white concern.
RESEARCH & ANALYSIS
After you’ve settled on a debatable claim, follow these steps:
Once you have chosen your 4-5 sources from the Triton Database begin to analyze them. An obvious
place to begin would be by sketching out the rhetorical situations for each text, as well as for the
larger context of the debate in which they exist. You might also ask who the authors (or rhetors) are
and what their values, motivations, and constraints might be.
Next, you should analyze the arguments that the authors are making. What are their points? Do they
disagree on everything? What kinds of evidence do they use? Do they seem to believe that the same
things even count as evidence?
Take notes as you analyze your text and find ways to organize your notes. You might consider making
a chart of questions with space for answers about each text.
Create a synthesis grid to analysis what each source has to say about your position.
SYNTHSIS GRID
POINT 1
POINT 2
POINT 3
ARTICLE 1
POV
POV
POV
POV
POV
ARTICLE 2
POV
POV
POV
POV.
POV
ARTICLE 3
POV
POV
POV
POV
POV
ARTICLE 4
POV
POV
POV
POV
POV
OPPOSITION
ETC.
ETC.
PLANNING
Now that you have conducted the research and analyzed the texts, take a step back and ask yourself
what you found. Go back to your original question and try to answer it: How do your sources support
or oppose your position? You might have one clear answer to this question, and you might have
several potential ideas regarding why they can’t agree. Go ahead and make some claims in
answer to the question and start marshallings the evidence from your notes to support your claims.
DRAFTING
Write an argumentative, research-based essay following the guidelines in the pattern of organization
chapter. Be sure to do the following in your essay:
Provide background information on the debate and the texts you chose to analyze.
Make your claim(s) and provide the textual evidence from your analysis to support your claims.
End your essay with some sort of “so what?” TelI your readers, who are most likely your
teacher and classmates, why it would be useful to have this analysis and why it is important to
understand how texts are constructed and how meaning is made-or not.
REVISING
Good, thoughtful work usually takes time, planning, and reconsideration. What you’ve been
asked to do in this activity is not easy, and you are more likely to write an effective text if you take
the time to get feedback from some other writers you trust. Work with one or more classmates or a
writing center tutor, and ask them if they think that you have effectively completed the assignment.
For example, ask them the following:
Have you given thoughtful reasons for why the sources have taken their position?
Do they think you need more evidence?
Do they believe your claims?
Are they persuaded by the evidence that you provide?
Consider your tutor and peer feedback and make appropriate revisions. Note that at this point in the
drafting process, you would do well to focus your revisions on global issues rather than fixating on
eliminating “errors” or finding bigger words to use. This assignment asks you to conduct
a careful analysis, and that is what your revision should focus on strengthening.
WHAT MAKES IT GOOD?
Your essay will be evaluated in terms of how well it accomplishes the goals set out. Remember that
your essay should answer the following question: Why do authors of texts in the debate on X
disagree? And how?
A strong essay will do the following:
Orient the reader by initially providing enough background information on the debate and the three
texts you chose to analyze;
Make clear claim(s) in answer to the question;
Provide textual evidence that is convincing and clear to the reader;
Be organized in such a way that the reader can follow along without having to work to figure out
where you are going; and
Be polished and edited so that the reader understands what you are arguing and is not distracted
from your claims.
Sources: In your research, you would need to find articles (both scholarly and mainstream press) that
support (argue for) or against your viewpoint and build a framework in your essay that not only
supports your view but also examines the counter arguments brought by other stakeholders. Ideally,
your argument will be sophisticated, in that it does not just see two sides in black and white, but sees
multiple opinions (or counter arguments), while firmly s …
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