Requirements for your essay
- -Your brief persuasive essay must be in MLA format and two full pages. Do not write more than 600 words as this is not a research paper. Write a brief persuasive essay based primarily on personal opinion, but be sure to provide some support for your position on the issue.
- -Your essay must have an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
- -Get organized http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/persuasion.pdf before you begin to write.
- Use at least one correctly documented quote, paraphrase, or summary from one acceptable source (no more than two sources permitted)
- Use MLA rules for documenting your source.
- -You must use in-text citations each time you use the words or ideas of your source in the essay. Example – (Jacoby 45).
- -You must includeyour works cited list at the end of your essay(use a good citation generator as previously discussed in the citation exercise or consult purdue owl: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_works_cited_page_basic_format.html).Example of Works Cited List Entry – Jacoby, Susan. “A First Amendment Junkie.” From Critical Thinking to Argument: A Portable Guide. Sylvan Barnet and Hugo Bedau, eds.Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s, 2017.
- -Use your source to support your own ideas.
- -Do not create a Frankenstein Essay by copying and pasting. Write!
- -Check your originality report in Turnitin and make necessary corrections. You do not need a password. Just click on the Check Module One Essay for Unintentional Plagiarism drop box in the Module One essay folder and follow the directions.
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- American Civil Liberties Union: Free Speech
- National Coalition Against Censorship
- Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
- Employers – Get Outta of My Facebook (from Bloomberg.Com)
- Internet Censorship ( ACLU)
- First Amendment Center
- Debatepedia – Freedom of Speech Debate: Restrictions on Freedom
- Free Speech vs. Hate Speech on FaceBook
- The U.S. Tries to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet
- Would Wiretapping Laws Spell the End of Quantum Encryption?
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