Should smoking be entirely illegal? and What is the best form of renewable energy?

ENC 1102 English Composition II: Sections 02, 03, and 05

Spring 2021

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*Prompt for the Annotated Bibliography Assignment

Due in Turnitin and Moodle on February 3 no later than 7:59 PM

Note: Plagiarism is grounds for an automatic F for this or any

paper you submit to me. Turnitin will help you avoid it.

Read each of the following research questions (RQ) carefully and select one that you have a vested interest in. Thereafter, search for no more or less than seven articles by seven different authors that will help you answer the RQ you have selected. Then, read these articles and write an annotated bibliography (AB). These articles, in addition, must be relevant to your research question in terms of both its title and content, and they must be reliable sources of which two must be scholarly or peer reviewed. Be sure that each or your bibliographical entries has the necessary information, including titles, authors, and dates.

Here now art the RQ:

1. Has racial integration proven to be a good or bad thing for one’s ethnicity?

2. Should smoking be entirely illegal?

3. Given the vows that couples freely and willingly take, especially “for better or worse till death do [them] part,” should divorce be illegal?

4. With respect to this recent general election and understanding the significance of how elected officials have the enormous ability to impact our lives for the better or worse, should voting be obligatory in the US in picking our legislative representatives?

5. What is the best form of renewable energy?

6. It so happens that those CEOs or managers or business owners who earn millions from the businesses they run are the more vocal against increasing the minimum wage to, say, $15 an hour. Some can and do earn in one year what some people could earn in their lives. Against this backdrop, should there be a maximum wage limit for those employed high wage earners?

7. Is college worth the financial cost one must incur to earn a college degree, especially an undergraduate?

8. Is there something called “white privilege” that affords more opportunities to Whites than those of other ethnicities, especially Blacks and Hispanics?

9. In one’s match to a future career, should one focus on the personal fulfillment one receives in doing her or his work or the amount of money one earns?

10. Should there be term limits for members of Congress?

*The AB assignment is the first of three of them. The next one will be the “Statement of the Problem” (SP) that will end with writing the argument in answering the RQ.