Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
- Textbook: pp. 293-318 and 337-356
- Lesson
- APA Guidelines (Links to an external site.)
This week’s assignment is the final, revised draft of your Argument Research Paper. This final copy will demonstrate the argument, writing, and revision techniques studied in the course and will build upon the steps you have taken in previous weeks toward thoroughly and carefully revising your originally composed and submitted in Week 5.
Writing Requirements for the Argument Research Essay Final Draft:
- Correct use of APA guidelines for the following:
- Headers with pagination
- Title Page
- Margins, spacing, and paragraph indentation
- APA in-text citation and referencing for all sources
- Do not divide your essay into sections.
- Do not use headings within your paper to indicate changes in topic. While longer APA essays and particular types of APA writing, such as scholarly articles, employ APA-style bolded headings to divide portions of the writing, you are writing a shorter academic essay. Your shift from one paragraph to the next should be signaled through your use of the effective transition and topic sentence rules we have practiced.
- 6-8 full pages for the essay itself, not including title page or references
- Effective structure, including your introduction paragraph, your body paragraphs, and your conclusion paragraph
- At least 5 scholarly sources visibly used, cited, and referenced
ANSWER
Since the early 1990’s, artificial intelligence and robotics researchers have developed robots that explicitly engage on social levels. Designing autonomous social robots was particularly challenging, as the robot needed to interpret people’s actions and respond appropriately correctly. Social robots, or those that interact and communicate with humans or other agents exhibiting social behaviors and following norms, have exploded in popularity in recent years, with rapid growth in the development of research prototypes and the commercialization of devices. According to Prescott and Robillard, the social robot’s ability to interact, understand, and respond to human emotion make them “candidate solutions for application domains that require social engagement and comfort” (2021). On the other hand, robots…. To access full answer, click on the purchase button below.