English writing

BASIC STRUCTURE FOR ESSAY 2: Include these elements in your outline. Type your outline in the right column

Use the BIG QUESTION and topic sentences that I give you. Then develop the paragraph following the structure in the left column. List your main points. Type your quotations. Include page numbers in parentheses after the quotations from Singer’s article.

INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH

· GENERAL TOPIC of this essay: DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE

· SPECIFIC TOPIC of this essay: DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS

· Briefly introduce your SOURCES with “Title” and full authors’ names.

· Write the BIG QUESTION for this essay

· THESIS STATEMENT: Answer the BIG QUESTION in the thesis statement.

USE A QUOTATION FROM: “They Are Watching You – and Everything Else on the Planet” by Robert Draper as a “HOOK” to catch your reader’s attention in the introductory paragraph.

BIG QUESTION: Taking into consideration Peter Singer’s argument in “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets” and the pros and cons in “Colleges Are Turning Students’ Phones into Surveillance Machines,” do you think that colleges should track students using their phones?

BODY PARAGRAPH 1:

“Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets”

· TOPIC SENTENCE

Summarize/QUOTE the key points in Singer’s article including:

· The Panopticon

· The BAD USES of digital surveillance

· The GOOD USES of digital surveillance

TOPIC SENTENCE: In “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets,” Peter Singer considers several uses – good and bad – of digital surveillance.

BODY PARAGRAPH 2:

“Colleges Are Turning Students’ Phones into Surveillance Machines”

· TOPIC SENTENCE

· Summarize the PROS and CONS from the article (with QUOTATIONS) of surveilling students through their phones.

TOPIC SENTENCE: “Colleges Are Turning Students’ Phones into Surveillance Machines, Tracking the Locations of Hundreds of Thousands” by Drew Harwell examines the pros and cons of a specific use of digital surveillance.

BODY PARAGRAPH 3: Your position after reading and thinking about all three sources.

· Answer THE BIG QUESTION in this paragraph

· Include IDEAS from Peter Singer’s article that could apply to the PROS and CONS of tracking college students. Would he think this is a good thing? A bad thing? Both?

· Evaluate the evidence and give YOUR OWN OPINION about colleges’ tracking students through their phones.

TOPIC SENTENCE = THESIS STATEMENT: your answer the BIG QUESTION.

CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH: Restate your thesis statement -- the answer to the BIG QUESTION -- with different words and reflect on your essay.