Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It’ by Cal Newport and ‘Don’t Quit Social Media. Put it to Work for Your Career Instead’ by P. Gillooly present two opposing viewpoints. Compare their content, structure, and style to assess their effectiveness
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Documented Essay
Instructions:
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Write an essay of 600 and 800 words ONE of the topics
below.
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All the related readings are available on eReserve.
Look for the tag ‘Documented Research Essay’.
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In your essay you must make documented use (whether in the
form of quotation, paraphrase, or summary) of between two and four secondary
sources.
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You must also include your primary (textbook) and secondary
sources (books, the Internet, interviews, periodicals, newspapers, and
audiovisual material) in a list of references on a separate sheet.
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Both the list and in-text documentation must conform to APA
style guidelines.
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Please underline your thesis and double space the text of
your essay.
Due Dates:
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Article Summary (5%) = Friday, October 23, 2020
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Essay outline (10%) = Friday, November 6, 2020.
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APA Reference List (5%) = Friday, November 27,
2020
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Final Documented Essay (25%) = Friday, December
11, 2020.
Students who are unable to submit the assignment on the day it is due
must inform the professor before the due date. A mark of 10% will be
deducted for each day past the due date up to two days. A grade of ‘0’
will be given after that date. There will be no make-up assignments.
Topics
- ‘Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It’ by Cal
Newport and ‘Don’t Quit Social Media. Put it to Work for Your Career
Instead’ by P. Gillooly present two opposing viewpoints. Compare their
content, structure, and style to assess their effectiveness. Who do you
agree with more?
- Compare ‘Finding a Nationality that Fits’ by Isabel
Vincent and ‘An Immigrant’s Split Personality’ by Yi Sun-Kyung as
persuasive texts.
- Assess ‘Chicken Hips’ by
Catherine Pigott as an attempt to show how our society, including media, imposes
its values and forces young people to be unhappy with themselves.
- In ‘Growing Up Native’ by Carol Geddes, the author has
used description, cause and effect, and first-person narrative to portray
the hardships a Native Canadian girl had to endure. How successful is the
author in achieving her purpose?
- Josh Dehaas in ‘The College Advantage’ claims that there
is a rise in the number of university-educated individuals choosing
college programs to acquire more transferable skills. What could be some
positive and negative effects of this trend?
