Begin your research for this essay as soon as possible. This essay will be about speech and how it varies depending on whom one is speaking with. I want you to pay attention to those around you (eavesdrop). Restaurants, coffee shops, grocery store lines are great placed to listen to conversations, unobserved.
Listen to the ways men speak to men, women speak to women, and how do men and women interact. Do age differences change how men and women interact? Be sure to check the syllabus for instructions writing these papers.