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Essay 3 (tentative due dates)

Research Proposal Due: April 13th Outline Due: April 23rd

Annotated Bibliography Due: April 20th Final Draft Due: May 2nd

The topic for the third paper will be Technology in Our Daily Lives. Your major project for this third unit is to write a text-based research paper in which you start with a research question related to our discussions on technology. This question should prompt you to investigate a topic dealing with a specific issue related to technology use in daily life. Your research will require collecting facts, opinions, and perspectives from various texts. You will also need to identify grounds for grouping the textual components and to organize this textual material under one or more controlling themes. The purpose of this paper is to explore the topic and attempt to answer your research question as objectively as possible.

In your paper, you must synthesize a minimum of three outside sources. Two of these sources must be articles found by using the full-text databases (i.e. Proquest, Lexis/Nexus). I must be able to tell that they are from the databases by looking at your APA reference page. You are welcome to use the article we have read for class, but you will still need to find three outside sources. Any information retrieved from the Internet must be credible and appropriate as discussed in class. In addition, with your final draft, for all of your sources, you will submit the first page (title page) and any pages from which you take quotes or paraphrases with any quoted or paraphrased material highlighted. Failure to submit your source information, or if your source information does not match your paper, will result in you receiving a zero for the paper. Your essay must be four to five pages long, plus a reference page, and follow APA format.

Unit Readings:

“How Companies Scour Our Digital Lives for Clues to Our Health” by Natasha Singer

“Smart Speakers Will Soon Talk to Police” by Christina Bonnington

*Additional readings may be added to this list.