Explain the causes of a situation (an event, a phenomenon, or a trend) that concerns you.

Assignment: Explain the causes
of a situation (an event, a phenomenon, or a trend) that concerns you.
Narrow your topic enough to treat it in some detail and provide more
than a mere list of causes. When seeking causes, you will have to decide
carefully how far back to go in your search for remote causes.
Moreover, you must be sure to distinguish between the immediate causes
and the remote causes of the situation you are analyzing.

Sources:
You must include at least two sources and incorporate at least three
in-text citations from that source into your essay. You can use that
source in a couple ways. For example, you could use a quotation to begin
your essay as a point of departure because you may disagree with the
idea, or you want to quote a source and then clarify what the statement
means. Another use of a quotation is to lend support to an idea you
have. This use of a quotation lends credibility to your own writing.
Finally, you must add a Works Cited page at the end of your essay. All
documentation must be in MLA 8th edition format.
Audience: academic; assume they’re not knowledgeable about the event you are writing on.
Length: 850 words, excluding the works cited page.
Format: Double spaced in 10 or12 point font. Indent all paragraphs at least five spaces. Use third person.
Work
to narrow down your topic to a specific phenomenon or problem whose
causes or effects can be addressed in 3 to 4 pages. For example,
attempting to discuss the possible causes of domestic violence would be
way too broad for this assignment. Instead of focusing on domestic
violence as a whole, you might narrow down your topic to examining the
reasons why women convicted of violent crimes receive longer prison
sentences than men, for instance, or the results of batterer
rehabilitation programs.
Below are some sample topics in case you have trouble thinking of one:
Why relationships start or break up
What causes friction between two roommates, or two friends
Sources of pressure on students to get good grades
The steady increase in college costs
The fact that more couples are choosing to have only one child, or none
The fact that most Americans can communicate in no language other than English

Your essay needs to be written in the third person point of view. Avoid using the second person point of view.

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