5 pages essay

Essay #3: Keeping Current

For your third essay of the semester, you will be tasked with doing some research into a recent event. Unlike the previous essays in which you relied on sources from within our assigned texts, this time you must go outside the classroom to discover a topic worth writing on. You will be asked to engage with a current event by researching it and providing a formal essay discussing a topic that is of some personal interest to you.

In order to begin this essay, you must go to either Huffington Post, NPR or some other online or print news outlet and locate an article that is of interest to you. This article should have been published since the beginning of the semester and must address a current issue or concern that you find intriguing. Make sure you take this portion of the essay seriously and spend a good deal of time considering which articles will be worth exploring more fully. You do not want to decide on an article only to find that you have no actual interest in the subject matter and can find no relevant research to back up your discussion.

Once you have located an article, you must begin researching the issue that the article talks about. You must find other articles, books or journal publications that discuss your issue and use them to support your discussion as you combine their ideas and your own into a research essay .For this paper you must include a minimum of four sources.

This essay is not required to be an argumentative or persuasive essay, but it may be helpful to have some stance in mind when undergoing the research. If you wish, you may simply provide the readers with an informative, expository research essay. However, regardless of what you decide to do, the bulk of the discussion should be your own. Be sure to use the sources to bolster your own stances, and do not make the sources do all of the work.

In order to revise this essay you MUST submit a rough draft.

Requirements:

MLA Formatting

5-6 pages

Works cited with at least 4 sources