Your essay will argue your answer to the question, “is a college education worth the cost?” Your answer to that question should be your thesis, and you’ll spend the rest of the essay defending that stance.
(Page 274’s “checklist” on essay structure and style is a good list of the key features from the chapter.)
Sources: The readings on pages 32-57 and 679-694. You’ll only need to actually incorporate (and cite) three of the readings, but you’ll want your paper to be aware of the arguments in all of them. You won’t want to say something that’s been contradicted in other readings.
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