Adding Research to Your Final Critical Essay
This week, we will begin to add research to our Critical Essay. For your first post, you will break down your thesis into claims and counter claims. You will cOMPOSE a simple topic outline and find a source to support each claim. At least two of the sources must be from the Keiser Library databases. One source must be a quotation from your textbook. The fourth source can be from your book, another book, the databases, or a credible online source.
Initial post: Outline with four sources. A brief statement about your research including one thing you learned or discovered about your topic.
Peer responses (2): Comment on the reliability, relevancy, and accuracy of format on their sources. Offer a suggestion on how to strengthen the flow or organization of their outline.
Quotation: "What all [super] powers have in common is that the complex social systems that underpinned them suddenly ceased to function. One minute rulers had legitimacy in the eyes of their people; the next they didn't."
Thesis Statement: America's decline is due to irreconcilable divisiveness, disrespect for legitimate leaders, and loss of civility in general