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PAF 101—MODULE 2 GRADE SHEET
**BASED ON CHAPTERS 2, 3, & 4** Name: Marli Milano Societal Category: Group #: __MAXIMUM__ __YOUR__ __EXERCISE__ __POINTS__ __SCORE__ __COMMENTS__ 2.1 6   2.2 8   2.3 6 __________  2.4 6 __________  2.5 12 __________  2.6 15 __________  2.7 5   3.1 30 ______  4.1 16 __________  4.2 8 __________  4.3 15 __________  4.4 6 __________  4.5 6 __________  4.6 16 ______  __Subtotal for Paper__ 155 ______ Points Deducted: Late Paper _____ Writing _____ Organization _____ Participation _____ __Total Points Deducted__ ______ Extra Credit Points: Competition _____ Speakers _____ __Total Extra Credit Points__ ______ = = ** TOTAL GRADE ** **MODULE TWO** 155 ______ #____

PAF 101 EXERCISES – MODULE 2
** BASED ON CHAPTERS 2, 3, & 4 ** **** Whenever you use a source in your answer, including all quotes, you must provide an APA-style internal citation and a full APA-style reference in the References page exercise, except in the case of personal communications. HINT: Most of these exercises require citations.** ** ** Whenever you attach an article, it must be directly behind the exercise in which it appears, and it must be clearly labeled with the exercise number and letter to which it pertains. Attach only the first page of the article unless otherwise stated. ** ** ** ****  Whenever searching for articles or other sources, do not use any information pertaining to other countries than the United States. ** Exercise 2.1: Locating Quantitative Data Your Total Score: _____ (Maximum: 6 points) You must use the LexisNexis Statistical Datasets to find a trend line graph and accompanying data table with at least three pieces of data, relevant to your societal category. The data must represent information within the last five years. Use the database’s ‘print’ feature to print out that graph and data table. Attach the print out directly behind the page on which this exercise appears. (6 points) In year 2008, urban population was 49.9% of the total population. [] (I have a print out of this graph) Exercise 2.2: Finding Periodical Articles Your Total Score: _____ (Maximum: 8 points) Using the ProQuest Research Library database, locate a news or magazine article relevant to your societal category at any geographic level. Do not use an article from an academic journal. Attach a photocopy or printout of the first page of the article directly behind this exercise. Make sure the article was published within the last six months. “The constraints on resources and environment-compounded by the rise of the middle class in nations such as China and India—will shape the rest of the century and beyond.” Moyer, M. Sept 2010. How much is left? // Scientific American //. Vol. 303. Iss. 3; pg 74
 * **Write one sentence describing one data point from your trend line graph and include an internal citation here:**
 * **Identify the Source Organization for this data and indicate that here:**
 * **Quote one relevant sentence from the article that is related to your societal category here:**

Exercise 2.3: Locating Books Your Total Score: _____ (Maximum: 6 points) Using the library catalog, find a book on your societal category at any geographic level. The publication date of the book must be within the last fifteen years. Books published by the government may not be used for this exercise. Attach a photocopy of the title page directly behind the page on which this exercise appears. “As environmentalism gradually enters the consciousness of social policy, and vice versa it is becoming clear that the time horizons of these two subjects need to converge.” Cahill, M. and Fitzpatrick, T. (2002) __Environmental Issues and Social Welfare__. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. Exercise 2.4: Using United States Government Publications Your Total Score: _____ (Maximum: 6 points) Using ** http://catalog.gpo.gov **, locate one United States government publication relevant to your societal category at any geographic level. > announcement or other informal online information summary. These types of publications are often posted on the web in "HTML" format only. This publication provides useful information about the environmental problem of water pollution because it gives detailed descriptions of what pesticides and herbicides were found in the Hudson River basin. http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS55300
 * **Directly quote a full sentence from the book that is related to your societal category here:**
 * The publication should include a clearly identified "title page" and the names of individual or organizational authors, such as those found within formal government agency reports, newsletters, online journals/magazines, etc. These government publications are often posted in "PDF”. Their pages frequently are numbered.
 * The publication you locate should not merely consist of a brief news
 * Do not use U.S. Census information.
 * Attach a photocopy or printout of the cover or title page of the document directly behind the page on which this exercise appears.
 * No citation is needed for this exercise.
 * **In one sentence, explain briefly why this publication will provide you with useful information about your societal category here:**

Exercise 2.5: Using Policy Publications Your Total Score­:­ _____ (Maximum 12 points) A. Using CQ Researcher, find a publication that contains information relevant to your societal category at any geographic level. (6 points) Part A Score: ____ “In 1994, President Clinton issued an executive order directing all federal agencies with a public health or environmental mission to make environmental justice an integral part of their policies and activities.” (Cooper 1998, p.1) “Another case has made it to the US supreme Court. Residents of Chester, Pa., a majority-black town in overwhelmingly white Delaware County, went to court to block construction of a waste facility in their community.” (Cooper 1998, p.2) “Poor and minority communities are where you find children with lead poisoning living near polluting industries, garbage dumps, incinerators, petrochemical plants, freeways and highways – all the stuff that other communities reject.” (Cooper 1998, p.3) B. Using the “Contacts” section of the CQ Researcher article, find one of the organizations from the list (preferably a public policy institute), and retrieve a policy paper, working paper, policy brief, or online report from the past five years on your societal category. The “Contacts” section appears once you have opened an article. It is one of the links in the gray column at the left margin of each CQ Researcher publication. (6 points) Part B Score: _____ “Burning coal releases enormous amounts of harmful pollutants into our environment, often with serious health consequences.”
 * **Using full sentences, quote no more than three sentences from the article that gives you a better understanding of your societal category** **here:**
 * **Quote one sentence from the publication that gives evidence of a societal problem that exists within your societal category here:**

Exercise 2.6: Using United States Census Data Your Total Score: _____ (Maximum: 15 points) Use the “American FactFinder” on the 2000 online census report (** http://www.census.gov **) to locate the information for your home census area, a comparable census area, and the United States, and fill out the chart below with the required information from the 2000 online census report.
 * Fill in the top row of the table with the name of a county and the county that is comparable to the original county. Be sure to indicate the state.
 * The comparable county must be similar to your census area, which is a county, in population size. A comparable population is within 20% of the population size of the original county.
 * If you do not use the 2000 online census report, you will lose all points on this exercise.
 * Do not cite or reference this exercise.
 * || Putnam || Steuben || **United States** ||
 * **Population** || 95,745 || 98,726 || 310,367,166 ||
 * **Median Age (years)** || 37.4 || 38.2 || 36.7 ||
 * **% White** || 93.9 || 96.4 || 74.3 ||
 * **% Male** || 49.9 || 49.0 || 49.3 ||
 * **Per Capita Income ($)** || 30,127 || 18,197 || 27,466 ||
 * **% Individuals Below Poverty Level** || 4.4 || 13.2 || 13.2 ||
 * **% Vacant Housing Units** || 6.6 || 15.3 || 12.0 ||
 * **% High School Graduate or Higher** || 90.2 || 82.8 || 84.5 ||

Exercise 2.7: Narrowing your societal category Your Total Score: _____ (Maximum: 5 points) Based on the research you have done in this chapter, narrow your societal category to a specific societal problem within it. Be sure to state it as a problem. A specific societal problem within the topic of the environment is too much water pollution in the lower Hudson River basin between NYC and Albany, NY. Exercise 3.1: Researching Your Players Your Total Score: _____ (Maximum: 30 points) List three individuals, either a player or a staff person of the player, who deal with your narrowed societal problem, keeping in mind the geographic location you specified. Be sure to follow the prompts listed below. **1.) Write the name and position of an elected government official who serves at the local, state or national level here. State the geographic location that they represent:** Vincent Leibell, Hudson Valley, 40th Senate District, New York. leibell@senate.state.ny.us  **-** What are you doing to reduce the amount of PCB’s in the Hudson River?  **-** How important do you think the cleanup process for the Hudson River is to the families in this area?  **-** How are you working with the DEC to clean up the Hudson River?  **2.) Write the name and position of a non-elected player from a governmental department here. Specify where they work by providing their geographic location:** Pete Grannis, commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation for New York State. **-** How does the health of the Hudson River affect your fly fishing? **-** How have you contributed to the cleanup of the Hudson River? **-** How will public comments affect the five-year blueprint for the Hudson River Estuary Action Plan? **3.) Write the name, their position, and the non-profit organization or public interest/lobby group they work for here. The non-profit organization or public interest/lobby group may be local, state or national:** William Wegner, Staff Scientist for Riverkeeper. info@riverkeeper.org  **-** What is the current PCB level in the Hudson River?  **-** What is the greatest point source of pollution in the Hudson River?  - Where is the greatest PCB output to the Hudson River?
 * **Write your specific societal problem, indicating a specific geographic location suffering from the problem here:**
 * **Write the player’s phone number and email address here (If instead of an email address you find a site that allows you to send a message to the individual, indicate this and provide a link to the site. This applies to all of 3.1):** (845) 279 3773
 * **Write why he/she will provide you with useful information by describing one policy he/she had worked on previously:** He is the Hudson Valley’s representative on the environmental conservation committee of the senate.
 * **Write three questions related to your specific societal problem that you could ask the player here:**
 * ** Write the player’s phone number and email address here :** 212-627-2020 http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/organization/board/Grannis.html
 * **Write why he/she will provide you with useful information by describing one policy he/she had worked on previously:** He is part of the Hudson River park trust Board of Directors. He played a key role in enacting laws addressing clean water.
 * **Write three questions related to your specific societal problem that you could ask the player here:**
 * **Write the player’s phone number and email address here:** 100-21-RIVER
 * **Write why he/she will provide you with useful information by describing one policy he/she had worked on or one service the organization has provided previously:** He is the senior researcher in a prominent environmental non-profit organization with ties to the Hudson Valley.
 * **Write three questions related to your specific societal problem that you could ask the player here:**

Exercise 4.1: Gathering Information for and Determining the Purpose of a Survey Your Total Score: _____ (Maximum: 16 points) A. Select a player to be your “client,” and contact them or a member of their staff. This does not have to be a player from Exercise 3.1. Use the information you get from communicating with this person to answer the following bullets (10 points). After you receive a reply, send your contact a thank you e-mail with a carbon copy (CC) to your TA in the e-mail. Part A score: ____  · ** Name the individual you contacted, his/her organization, his/her title, and the geographic location where work: ** Charles Schumer, US Senate, US Senator, 757 Third Avenue Suite 17-02 New York, NY 10017  · ** Write the individual’s phone number and email address here. (If instead of an email address you find a site that allows you to send a message to the individual, indicate this and provide a link to the site). **212-486-4430, http://schumer.senate.gov/new_website/contact.cfm  · **Briefly describe the purpose of the survey you will be designing here, including a quote from the player that justifies why this survey will be useful:** Assess interest and usage of state public lands and how to allocate public resources to serve the public.  · **Write a piece of factual information that could be gathered through your survey here:** could find uses of public parks by New York state residents.  · **Write a piece of attitudinal information that could be gathered through your survey here:** how important public parks are to the residents.  · **Describe a type of policy the player might develop from the information gathered in your survey here:** Budget for the maintenance and conservation of public parks. B. Quote the definition of the term "target population" from the // Maxwell Manual //. (2 points) Part B score: _____  · ** Place definition here: **“The entire group of individuals about whom you want to gather information” (40). C. Identify the target population you will sample for your survey. You cannot use any single K-12 school or a university as your target population. (4 points) Part C score: _____ NY state residents.
 * **Write a specific description of your target population including its geographic location and approximate size:** The target population is the people in the state of New York with an approximate size of 19,541,453 people.

Exercise 4.2: Choosing a Sample and Method of Contact Your Total Score: _____ (Maximum: 8 points) A. Indicate and discuss which of the three methods of contact from the // Maxwell Manual // you will use to contact your sample. (4 points) Part A score: _____ B. Identify one variable you will use to assess the degree to which your sample accurately reflects your target population. (4 points) Part B score: _____ Benford’s law describes the natural description of random numbers. I will compare the frequency of different final digits against the expected distribution according to Benford’s Law. Since the digits of one’s phone numbers are not related to any data collected, it is a good variable to check the sample’s randomness and observational independence.
 * **State the method here:** Phone
 * **Justify why you have chosen to use this method here using information from the // Maxwell Manual //:** Not many people would respond to email and it would be too expensive and time consuming to survey everyone face to face.
 * **Identify the variable here:** Last digit of the phone number.
 * **Explain why the variable you have chosen matters, and why it is important that the distribution of the variable should be similar to the target population:**

Exercise 4.3: Determining Sample Size Your Total Score: _____ (Maximum: 15 points) A. Clearly and concisely describe the exact procedures you will use to select the sample and contact the respondents. Be detailed and list each step needed to select the sample. Be realistic. (5 points) Part A score: _____ The sample must be random so the people contacted would have to be selected randomly. 1. Select every fifth county from an alphabetical list of all counties in New York 2. Select every three zip codes in each county 3. Choose specific phone numbers from each zip code based on the last number of the phone number, phone numbers ending in 1, 4, 8 and 0 B. Complete the following steps to determine your sample size and confidence interval. (4 points) Part B score: _____  · **Restate your target population and its size here:** New York state, population: 19,541,453  · **Indicate the size of the sample you plan to analyze here:** 1000 people  · **Indicate the approximate percentage this represents of the target population here:** 2/100ths of 1% or 0.02% <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 39pt; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list 39.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · **Indicate the 95% confidence interval of responses from a sample of this size here: ±**3% C. Complete the following steps to determine your response rate and required number of contacts. (6 points) Part C score: _____ 2439.024=1000/.41 We will have to contact 2,439 people.
 * ** List the steps you will follow here: **
 * **Estimate the __exact__ response rate you expect for your survey here:** 41%
 * **Justify the rate you chose here:** Many people in New York state have caller ID and therefore don’t answer their phones all of the time.
 * **Write how many people you will have to contact in order to obtain your desired number of responses here:** We will have to contact 2,439 people.
 * **Using the formula from the text, show the calculations that you used to find how many people you will have to contact here:**

Exercise 4.4: Creating the Questions Your Total Score: _____ (Maximum: 6 points) Provide examples of two closed-choice questions for your survey. Base one question on the factual information your player identified in 4.1, and base the other on the attitudinal information your player identified in 4.1. All response categories must be shown. How many bottles on average do you recycle per week? What is your view on recycling?
 * **Write the question that will gather factual information here:**
 * **Write the question that will gather attitudinal information here:**

Exercise 4.5: Examining News Media Treatment of Surveys Your Total Score: _____ (Maximum: 6 points) Using the ProQuest database or LexisNexis Academic database, locate a newspaper article from the last six months that presents or discusses a survey that has already been conducted on ANY subject, not necessarily the one studied in this module. The article may not be international. Attach a copy of the entire article directly behind the page on which this exercise appears. http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/5-reasons-democrats-could-beat-the-polls-and-hold-the-house/
 * **Quote at least one sentence from the article here:**
 * **Using the questions under “Examining News Media Treatment of Surveys” on page 54 of the // Maxwell Manual //, evaluate how thoroughly the author reported the procedures followed for the survey here by using at least three questions in your response.**

Exercise 4.6: References Your Total Score: _____ (Maximum: 16 points) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo21; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · ** Start References on the next line or on the next page: ** Cooper, M. H. (1998, June 19). Environmental justice. // CQ Researcher, 8. //529-552. Retreived October 6, 2010, from CQ Researcher Online, http://library.cqpress.com.libezproxy2.syr.edu/cqresearcher/cqresrre1998061900.
 * Prepare a list of references that includes all sources for this module.
 * Follow the APA format.
 * Include all sources used in the exercises.