Preparation for Generating a Policy Proposal
Although some states and cities have passed laws to ban texting and using handheld phones while driving there is no current law to ban all cell phone use while driving. However according to the National Safety Council (2009) 28 percent of all crashes1.6 million per yearare caused by cell phone use and texting by drivers. The mission of a new national nonprofit organization called FocusDriven patterned after Mothers Against Drunk Driving is to make phone use while driving as illegal and socially unacceptable as drunk driving. US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood supports FocusDriven and its efforts.
According to thePittsburgh Post-Gazette LaHood said that this movement would become an army of people traveling the countryside to push for bans on cell-phone use and tough enforcement (Schmitz 2010). As a political advocate interested in this issue you will be writing a policy proposal that utilizes the current research to propose a solution to the issue and submitting it inModule 5.
Annotated Bibliography: Effect of Cell Phone Use
Before you can write this proposal research you will need to conduct initial research on the science behind this initiative. For this assignment use the Argosy University online library resources to locate research reports from peer-reviewed journals that discuss the effects of cell phone use on vision attention perception or memory. In selecting at least five research reports from peer-reviewed journals relevant to the topic make sure they address one or more of the following issues:
Based on your reading of the five articles create an annotated bibliography for each of the five sources. Each annotation should consist of the APA reference entry followed by a paragraph-long summary of the articles. In your summary provide answers for the questions below. For the last question think about how the research results could be generalized to fit other environments or not be generalized.
Yourannotated bibliographyshould be at 34 pages in length.Click herefor the annotated bibliography template. This document will help you complete your paper more successfully.
Be sure to include a title page and reference page listing your articles.