Analyzing an Issue: For this final essay, as its title suggests, you are to explain an issue using the analytical skills we have honed throughout the semester to communicate "what is really going on." You will be required to present information from various viewpoints. For example, you might write about-the environmental damage caused by dam construction. Regardless of your personal stance on environmentalism, you will need to present the information on the environmental damage caused by dam construction fairly. This particular topic is a good example because the issue has at least two discernible sides,which your topic must as well. You should remember that your ability to cite your sources for your information also helps to establish your authority. Be careful to keep track of the sources and specific information you use so that you will be able to document your information appropriately and honestly. You should consider carefully what your readers probably do not know about this issue.Some words may require defining. Some laws might need to be cited. Your purpose in explaining this issue will be to give your readers a more informed understanding about it—your audience should be considered mostly misinformed about your issue, but that does not mean they do not have access to common knowledge" (this distinction is one you as a writer must make). The average should as always, be 1-2 direct quotes per paragraph. As it is important to research your issue carefully, it is also important to report it without taking a side that you would like to argue. Your purpose in this essay is not to persuade your readers to accept a particular position. It is to help them become more informed as a consequence of the research you have done. As always, you must be careful to use quotation marks to indicate phrases,sentences, or paragraphs that you have taken verbatim from another writer and you must indicate the source for both these quotations and any summaries of information. Good organization, reflective source usage, and clear thesis statements will be paramount in this paper.
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