500 Historical Analysis

A UW SSW Writing Center Presentation

Agenda

• Review Assignment Purpose

• Format: APA Headings and Subheadings

• Paper Sections– Introduction

– Description

– Analysis

– Conclusion and Implications

• Questions?

• Breakout

Assignment Purpose

• Understand the linkages

between history and

contemporary issues in social

work

• Explore tensions and conflicts in

the social work profession

• Gain familiarity with scholarly

sources in social work

• Develop library research skills

• Why headings and subheadings?- Break up content. Keep reader (and you) engaged- Allow reader to locate where they are in paper easily- Reduce overwhelm from “information dump”

• Heading = First Division of Sections- Centered, Bolded, Uppercase 1st Letters

• Subheading = Subsequent Divisions “nested” under Headed Section- Subheading 1: Left-Aligned, Bolded, Uppercase 1st

Letters- Subheading 2: Indented, Bolded, Lowercase with a

Period. Begin body text after the period.

APA Headings and Subheadings

Description (Heading)

Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text.

Analysis (Heading)

Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

text text text text text text.

Deserving vs. Undeserving (Subheading 1)

Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

text text text.

The role of intersectionality. (Subheading 2) Text text text text text

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Example

Checking-In: Where are You at in your Paper?

Moving forward, make short notes to yourself about how you’re feeling with each section.

Where do you feel stuck? Where would you like feedback?Where do you want to put more work?

• 1/2 to 1 page

• Broad strokes overview. About what, why, and

how will you write this paper?

– What is your topic?

– Why, or how, is it relevant to social work?

– What arguments are you making?

– What will you cover in the paper? > Give reader a linear “roadmap”

– Why is this topic important?

Paper Part 1:Introducing Your Topic

•3 to 4 pages

•Give detailed information on topic. More depth

than breadth.

– Provide important context for understanding

– Assume reader does not know the topic

– Use scholarly sources

– Use headings to guide the reader (and yourself)

– You are telling a story!

Paper Part 1: Describing Your Topic

•2 to 3 pages

• Similar to Integrative Reflections. Highlight historical

tensions in social work and interpret your topic

through them.

– Refer to course and external readings

– Center your tensions throughout your analysis.

Resist temptation to go off track. Relate readings

back to your point(s).

Paper Part 2: Analyze Enduring Tensions

•Tensions Examples:

– Deserving/Undeserving

– Care/Control

– Citizen/Alien

– Private Troubles/Public

Issues

•Many tensions can overlap.

Write two distinct

interpretations.

Paper Part 2: Analyze Enduring Tensions

Paper Part 3: Conclusion and Implications

• 1 to 2 pages

• Link issue and analysis back to contemporary

issues. Draw parallels between now and then

• Why is this history relevant to social work and

social justice today?

• Link your topic to social work’s values of social

justice

• NASW Code of Ethics

Any questions?

Breakout!

• Get in pairs

• For the remainder of the hour, discuss with a

partner areas of your paper where you might feel

stuck or want feedback (consider your notes

made throughout the workshop)

• Divide time equitably