Assignment Task:
First Draft of an Op-Ed Assignment
For this assignment, write a 750-1,000-word Op-Ed that addresses an issue related to the topics listed below. This assignment must be written in formal academic tone, meaning third person language is required.
Identify an issue related to emerging technologies, such as AI, and its effect on your chosen field of study or topic of interest. Based on your research, choose an issue related to one of the fields or topics below. You are not limited to the topics on this list. Looking for Assignment Help?
- Education- Ethical concerns in education, AI and plagiarism, impact on the future of online learning, or in person learning.
- Business- Jobs replaced by AI, emerging jobs, and new technology/social media in marketing.
- Health/Nursing - New technology in medicine, machines assisting in surgery, ethical concerns in digital healthcare (telehealth, etc.).
- Justice Studies-Cybercrimes, digital court, digital profiling, and emerging jobs due to new technology
- Psychology-Ethics in digital therapy and psychiatry, social media impact on mental health.
- Engineering -New technologies impact on engineering, new fields emerging because of new technologies.
- Theology: Streaming services, online prayer groups, social media/online religion.
- Fine Arts/Media: Copyright and AI issues, AI replacing artists, how new technology is changing the arts, e.g., digital sets in theater.
Instructions:
Prewriting
Research at least five credible sources to support your claims, two of which must be peer-reviewed journal articles. Use the Research Matrix Resource in the Course Materials to help you organize your sources.
- Use the research you have conducted in your "Research Matrix" resource to clearly define the issue, by examining:
- The causes and effects, who is affected, and current approaches (envision current approaches as current ways of thinking and current solutions).
- Use this material to narrow the topic to a specific issue and develop your clearly defined opinion on the issue (consider this as adding to the ongoing conversation) that you will persuade readers to accept. You may use the resource "Narrowing the Topic to a Thesis Statement" to help.
Drafting
- Provide an introduction that briefly introduces the topic and leads the reader to the thesis statement that states your opinion on the issue you are trying to persuade the readers to adopt. Example thesis: Social media sites should not be required to implement monitoring systems for underage users because it is expensive to implement, invades the user's privacy, and limits parental autonomy.
- Include body paragraphs that address the following:
The context of the issue that includes:
- Significance of the issue (Why should anyone care?)
- At least one cause and effect related to your issue (who is affected?)
- Current ways of thinking or current solutions (envision current approaches as current ways of thinking and current solutions) in one to three paragraphs.
- Persuade your audience to accept your well-supported. Explain your reasons for this opinion. This must be an addition to the ongoing conversation with support and should not merely agree or disagree with someone else. Think critically, include support, and discuss the value of adopting your perspective/opinion to your reader (two to three paragraphs).
- Conclude with a call to action or solution directed to a clearly defined audience (who can influence the issue). Consider: Who are you trying to convince and why?)
- On your reference page, include the sources you cited in the essay.
- Use the Self-Review/Reflection Op-ed to help ensure that you meet each requirement of the assignment.
As you are constructing your essay, keep in mind the Op-ed is NOT a summary an issue. Rather, it is an examination of the issue in which you will form an educated opinion that you will persuade the reader to accept.