Prompt” what is a controversial current you feel passopnatelt about? Persuade others to adopy a particular viewpoint on this current event.”
900 total words (not including Works Cited page)
Op-ed format–consider a news article template in Word or Google Docs, or a free website builder
Conversational, professional tone and voice
A minimum of five citations from at least three credible sources (e.g. book, magazine, newspaper, online journal, film, speech, interview, etc.); limit yourself only to scholarly sources or those that include the testimony of experts in the field of study. Reliable news sources also permitted.
Consult AWR or Purdue OWL for proper MLA formatting of in-text citations and the Works Cited page.
Structure
Introduction
Interesting opening sentence (“hook”)
Brief background information on the current event
Outline of the body (overview of what you are writing about–do not direct at the reader)
Thesis statement (present the current event and what you will be persuading your audience to think about it)
Body
Detail the reasoning that supports your thesis using information from credible sources.
Address the opposing viewpoint(s) somewhere in or throughout the paper.
Include at least one illustrative multimodal component (e.g. photo, map, graph, chart, diagram, etc.) to support a specific claim(s) in your article.
Conclusion
So what? (Why is this current event important in society?)
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