Cultural Capital Enrichment of Underrepresented Minority Undergraduates Essay

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Cultural Capital Enrichment of Underrepresented Minority Undergraduates

by Sarah M. Ovink and Brian D. Veazey

The study in the paper presented above focuses on what the authors call an area of "acute concern," namely the "lack of underrepresented minority (URM) students pursuing careers in scientific and biomedical fields."

The paper follows a very organized outline that mirrors the conventional research article form, which starts with an introduction, and continues with a review of literature, and various other analysis in regards to the research question, such as methodology, results, discussion and conclusions.

The essay's introduction is very comprehensive and does provide a thesis statement, thereby clarifying the purpose of the essay. According to the authors, the study is needed because of the fact that minority participation in "doctoral-level scientific or biomedical research" is not only underrepresented, but, according to the authors, it can broaden scientific inquiry and thereby serve to better equip the field to answer some of the most important questions today.

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Furthermore, such representation would also better serve "population-specific health concerns of these most vulnerable groups" (Ovink and Veazey, 2010).

The authors then proceed to follow the structure of a review of literature, and provide references from various sources, including the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and other authors who have expertise on the issue discussed. Furthermore, all of these sources are relatively recent, ranging from 2005 to the present, though one of the quoted sources is from 1973, but this appears only once, thus making this section appear as a good basis for further commentary.

After the comprehensive literature review the….....

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