LAIR: Partial Project 1, Human Trafficking

For this project, you will get in teams of two or three students.

In these teams, you must do the following things:

1. Come up with a research question regarding the topic of Human Trafficking. Follow your curiosity, but beware of value judgements (example: "Is human trafficking worse than torture?"), cultural relativism (example: "Should some cultures be allowed to traffic humans?"), and simple yes/no questions (example: "Is human trafficking illegal?"). Go deeper than that.

2. Find two sources per person that may help you answer your question. One of the sources must be primary, and the other must be secondary.

3. Do an OPCVL analysis for each source, evaluating how useful it may be to answer your question. You don't need to use the table format we used in class. The five sections in a list will be fine.

4. Write one document (500 words maximum) for the entire team where you describe the process to find your sources and how useful (or not useful) each one was to answer your question. Take into account that you may not arrive at a definitive answer for your question, so you must specify to what extent your sources were actually helpful for your specific question.

5. In one Word file (.docx) per team put together: your question (step 1), your answered OPCVLs (step 3), and the document you wrote as a team (step 4). Upload it to Blackboard before midnight on August 29, 2017. Projects that are late, uploaded to the wrong platform, or don't have names will have an automatic 1.


The project will be graded as follows:

Rubric:
Individual grade	First OPCVL is of a primary source, and has complete sentences and specific statements that clearly evaluate the source’s usefulness to answer the question.	30%
	Second OPCVL is of a secondary source, and has complete sentences and specific statements that clearly evaluate the source’s usefulness to answer the question.	30%
Team grade	Written document states the question being answered.	10%
	Written document describes how the evaluated sources were found.	10%
	Written document gives a conclusion as to how useful each source was to answer the question	20%
TOTAL		100%