Explain how CSI affect jury trials?

I chose to relate pop culture to the TV show Greys Anatomy!!!

Pop-Culture Analysis Essay
For this essay, you will analyze, explore, and examine an issue in popular culture.
You will begin by viewing an artifact of popular culture: a movie, television show,
magazine, video game, music video, etc., paying attention to how it reflects issues
such as age, race, gender, class, religion, politics, or another approved topic.
This is not a report! It is definitely not a movie review. The intention of this
assignment is not to simply gather information, but to form an argument and provide
a new understanding of the topic you are examining. The analysis is not about the
movie/show/magazine/whatever you chose; it just stems from it.

Your analysis should:

• Not be a report, but an argument that creates a new understanding.
• Be well-organized, with a clearly stated thesis that is threaded throughout.
• Have a clear introduction and conclusion.
• Have concise, focused paragraphs with meaningful transitions.
• Be based on high-quality research from 4 outside sources. It should include
a works cited page in MLA Style.
• Be 1500 words minimum.
• Represent your strongest writing: good language use, grammar, spelling,
punctuation, etc.

For example:
I recently read an interesting article about the television show CSI, and how it is
disseminating knowledge of forensics that has been impacting jury trials. My
questions going into a paper on this topic might be: Explain how CSI affect jury trials?
Why does it affect them? And more importantly, SO WHAT? If I stopped at how
and why, I would simply be writing a report, regurgitating the information I
gathered from my sources. The crux of the paper is the “so what,” or the
synthesis of this information into an argument. What are the ramifications of this
for the criminal justice system? Is this something to be embraced or avoided? Is CSI
affecting society, or is it actually just reflecting it? What is the result on the viewer?
If this topic doesn’t appeal to me, then I could research any gender issues I notice on
the show, or how politics influence what cases are given the most attention.

View a movie, television show, magazine, etc. You might have to view several before
you generate any good ideas. While watching, detail your observations, responses,
and questions. Then write a tentative thesis/introduction that stems from what you
observed. It should identify a topic, the value of researching it, your present
understanding of it, as well as all of questions that you aim to answer. You might
even want to poke around the internet to see how much information is available on
the subject.

The introduction should identify the topic and its relevant historical and cultural
context, the text(s) you will analyze, and your thesis—a small and unexpected claim
worth making. The next paragraph might summarize the text(s) and incorporate
evidence in the form of quotes to substantiate your summary. The bulk of the essay
should develop the specifically analytical (and perhaps comparative) argument
offered in your thesis including careful evidence to support your claims.

Analysis means many different things, so stay focused on demonstrating how the
common topic is represented in the text(s). Finally, given the careful detail and the
specific supported analysis of your essay, you have earned the right in your
conclusion to offer conjecture, make more general claims, and suggest what the
broader implications of your analysis might be. This essay should be directed to
actual and implied audiences, both your fellow students and your professor as well
as an imagined audience you are trying to teach with your experience or
interpretation and impress with your style of description and explanation. You must
craft the essay to make it meaningful and appealing to others.

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