Pandemic Perspectives

Essay 2 (15 points): Pandemic Perspectives Background​: The literature review essay serves as a pre-writing tool to gather and assess the credibility of multiple perspectives. After doing so, writers have the opportunity to review their own work and to assess what views they believe to be practical, significant, and/or worth investing in further. Such review then leads to a writer assessing their own views, researching further, considering logical reasons to believe their view to be valuable, finding examples, noting refutations (or possible questions) that others might have, and being prepared to define their claim using concise language. Assignment: ​Write an essay in which you form, explain, support, and defend your own perspective on the topic you’ve researched.

Requirements:

1. Clearly define the issue, its context, and your own view, using a direct claim or statement (i.e. “thesis statement”) in the first two-three paragraphs.

2. Incorporate information from at least 6 sources - only 2 of which can be from your literature review. ○ The sources can be of any genre/medium, but they must be ​credible​. Scholarly sources or

articles, blogs written by professionals in your field, data collected from a reliable source, or CDC articles, for example, are fine.

3. Purposefully use at least 3 full pages (i.e. it should ​at least touch​ the fourth page). 4. Revise thoughtfully. 5. Review all past feedback left on your papers to edit and improve the quality of your work. 6. Employ rhetoric ​intentionally​ (i.e. think very carefully about every aspect of your paper, including, but

not limited to: your diction, tone, manner of source use, paragraph structure and length, topic sentences, paragraph order/organization from start to finish, etc.)

7. MLA format must be “on fleek.” One full point will be deducted from each page that has an error. Tips:

● Your own diction and tone should reflect your logical thought process. Don’t manipulate your reader - just make them understand the circumstances.

● Do not use second person “you” in any instance - this paper is not about me.

Extra Credit: 1 point for using 3 subordinate clauses in the essay (please highlight the sentences in your document before uploading).