Your final out-of-class paper will be a multi-source research paper of 7-10 pages in which you define a problem and take a position arguing for a specific response or responses that you see as mitigating or solving the problem. The problem you write about must be related to one of the topic areas from our textbook, The Presence of Others: Education, Ethics, Science and Technology, Identities, American Cultural Myths, or Business and Labor. You are encouraged to use one of the essays in our book to help you begin defining the problem and as a jumping off point for your research. The paper must be an argument, not a personal essay and not a report. In it you should do the following:
1. Clearly define the problem and explain why it is a problem.
2. Propose a response to the problem that could plausibly solve or mitigate it.
3. Present a causal analysis of the problem that establishes the seriousness or stakes of the problem and leads logically to your proposed response.
4. Present a counter argument to your position and a refutation of the counter argument.
5. Use at least seven documented library sources. You must use at least one of each of the following source types: book, scholarly journal, newspaper, magazine. The periodicals may be print or electronic sources (from Shatford Library's electronic database). Wikipedia may be used at the exploratory stage of research to get an overview of your subject, but it may not be included among the sources cited in
the paper.
6. Include in-text citations and a Works Cited page following MLA style.