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DB 8 Instructions:

· From the McGraw Hill Reader: Issues across the Disciplines (12th edition), carefully read both:

· Lauren Goodlad’s “Why We Love Mad Men” (pp 436-9)

· Dave Barry’s “Red, White, and Beer” (pp 452454)

· Write a 2 pages minimum - 3 pages maximum double spaced essay that carefully considers the following topic

· Television programming is a form of escapism that distorts the individual’s concept of the actual society in which they (viewers) really live. Do you agree or disagree? Why?

DB 8 Assignment Criteria (What your essay needs to do):

· Establish your own thesis position for or against the topic question above: whether television programming is a form of escapism and why it is or is not matters.

· Develop your own thinking about in the body, by explaining your own ideas as deeply as you can by fully developing one or two specific instances of your own ideas/examples.

· You must use (include) and discuss at least one idea from both of the above essays.

· DO NOT simply summarize or repeat ideas from the essays in your body.

· Make and explain connections between the ideas you select and your own thinking.

· Internally cite all borrowed ideas and include an MLA Work Cited page entry at the end of your essay.

· Double Space throughout. Font size no less than 11 point and no larger than 12 point

MLA Rules of Internal Citation and Work(s) Cited Requirements:

· The first time you internally cite, all that is needed is a brief identity of the source and the page number (if there is one) where the source is located. An example follows: (Barry 452). There is no punctuation between the identity of the source and the page number.

· Subsequent references to the same source made elsewhere in the document require only a page number in parenthesis, immediately following the borrowed idea. An example follows: (453).

· If the next time you cite the same source, there has been no new source cited between the first and next time you cite an already cited source, only page number(s) are required. The page number reference does not include “p” “pp” or “page” references written before the page number, only the page number itself.

· MLA Work Cited pages include sufficient information, allowing readers to locate the source

IMPORTANT COURSECALENDAR CORRECTION REGARDING DB 8 Due Date:

· You can submit this assignment using your one time late waiver if you still have it to use but must make the request to do so no later than the November 12, 2017 (9PM) due date.

· If granted, late waiver submissions are due the following week: Sunday, November 19, 2017 (9pm).

· Note: DB 8 Drop Box remains open until the last day of the course Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 4 PM for late submissions (those made without a late waiver but after the November 12, 2017 due date) and all late submissions lose 5 points before grading.

DB 8 Submission Details:

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