Identify two arguable sides about your first issue related to your career or degree field.

Prompt
Now that you have spent some time writing down some potential issues for your project, it is time to narrow the focus.

Part One: After exploring the library databases and reviewing your brainstorming activity, select two potential issues that are related to your career or degree. Again, ensure that you are selecting and writing about two different issues. Each section should be written as a fully developed, 5–8 sentence paragraph.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Identify two arguable sides about your first issue related to your career or degree field.
Identify two arguable sides about your second issue related to your career or degree field.
Part Two: After exploring both sides of each issue, choose one to write about in your final persuasive essay.

Specifically, you must also address the following rubric criteria:

Choose a side that you might argue.
Identify why your topic would be meaningful to your audience (people connected to your career or degree field).

MLA format, 12 times roman, double spaced

professor’s input
No worries on the “rant” issue; this is just brainstorming topics, so it is good to be free with opinions and ideas at this stage. Both of these ideas are excellent, but I could actually see the second one folded into the first quite easily. Planned obsolescence is a function of having a consumer culture as opposed to having one that values craftsmanship and quality.

The choice is yours, but I would suggest going with the idea that mass production has resulted in lower quality for consumer goods. That ripple effect has some dire consequences on the downstream side of the supply chain.

If you go in that direction, see if you can compose a solid research question that will help you to guide your inquiries. These are just a couple that came to mind for me:

What are the downsides of having a consumer culture that privileges newness over functionality?
What are the long-term consequences of planned obsolescence for first world countries? What about for developing nations?
My guess is that some additional clarity will be forthcoming as you move through the work this week.

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