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Second Major Paper Assignment: Evaluating the Internet or Social Media

Description: Evaluate one feature of the internet or social media, a feature that you think readers need to consider more carefully than they do now. Support your evaluation with at least one article from a recent periodical and with at least one of the essays from Chapter 16, “The Internet and Social Media: Their Impact on Our Lives,” in Read, Reason, Write.

To do this assignment, identify the criterion or criteria that undergird your evaluation. For example, if you argued that the relative anonymity granted by online commenting is more helpful and productive than today’s internet users realize, then you would need to use part of your paper to clarify what counts as “helpful and productive” uses of the internet and why.

Audience: Your readers for this paper are undergraduate college students who use the internet regularly and who are plugged in to social media. In most cases, your readers will be familiar with the specific feature that you evaluate. However, your readers may have taken the feature for granted, accepted it as a mere fact of life rather than examining whether they think the feature is somehow positive or negative.

Context: Much as in your first major paper you argued for a particular definition of a term, now you must argue for the validity of specific criteria by which to judge one feature of the internet or social media as good or bad, positive or negative. That is, you must clarify the criteria for your evaluation. Then this paper assignment requires the additional step of explaining and defending how the one feature that you chose to write about fits your criteria. Making these argumentative moves allows you to do more than pass judgment on the internet or social media; it allows you to build a case for why your judgment is sound, resting on nuanced considerations of how the internet or social media functions. At stake is how thoughtfully your readers perceive the internet or social media—no small outcome.

***Remember to use MLA format, Times New Roman font, size 12, Double Space, include a Heading and Header***

Length: minimum 1000 words.

Essay 2 DUE SUNDAY OCT. 28 by MIDNIGHT