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MLA Format Third Person Point of View Description of assignment: Write a 3-4 page essay that offers commentary about a specific trend, situation, or event. A social commentary can take a lot of different forms, but for this assignment, your commentary should analyze what evidence you have observed of this trend, situation, issue, or event, how it may have come about (causes), and what its effects are, have been, or will be. Your thesis should focus on arguing an opinion about this specific trend, situation, issue, or event. It should reveal whether you are surprised, disturbed, pleased, etc. by this specific trend, situation, issue, or event. You should include three sources (Internet) in this essay. Use at least 3 credible sources. Steps of assignment: 1. Brainstorm a specific trend, situation, issue, or event to analyze. a) Analyze this specific trend, situation, issue, or event: brainstorm (1) where you have observed it, (2) how you think it came about, (3) what effects specifically it has had on people, (4) what communities or groups are involved with it, (4) and what you feel about it. 2. Research your issue through primary and secondary research. 3. Try to compose a working thesis. Your thesis should argue something insightful and meaningful about the specific trend, situation, issue, or event. Should people be surprised, disturbed, pleased, etc. by this specific trend, situation, or event? 4. Arrange details 5. Compose rough draft 6. Proofread and edit Cause/Effect is any argument that uses the term because in it. If you argue "I got a bad grade because..." then you are emphasizing the Causes. If you argue "Because I got a bad grade, these things happened" then you are emphasizing the effects. Most cause/effect essays will reflect one side or the other of the equation, not both. Trying to explain both causes AND effects for an argument can become quite lengthy, quite quickly. To produce an acceptable cause/effect essay, the writer should: -- use grammatically appropriate sentence structures -- Organize the essay around a cause/effect argument utilizing direct evidence -- Use appropriate paragraph breaks to control the flow of information -- Use transitions both within and between the paragraphs -- Develop and explain the essay content completely -- Communicate a clear and specific purpose to an audience -- Incorporate evidence from outside sources ethically, effectively, and appropriately Social or Political Commentary • to develop a better understanding of an issue/trend/situation and how it came about or affects a community • to form an opinion about the cause or effect • to select and arrange details appropriate to your analysis • to write in a voice appropriate to a specific audience • to conduct and integrate research through the library