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ENG 100.5 BMCC Prof Lam 1 “Plan B: Skip College ” - -Jacques Steinberg Notes & Informa tion on Citations Important points you need to consider in your summary & response to this article: Steinberg argues: • We have been told that co llege is the key to success in the U.S. but it ’s not true because: ✓ Many college students don ’t graduate ✓ Many students incur debt ✓ He cites “experts ” who say that short -term voca tional training and career training is a good al ternative ✓ Coll ege degree s are simply not necessary for many jobs ✓ College degrees do not nece ssarily give you the soft skills you need to be succ essful in a work environment . • On the flip side he ackno wledges: ✓ Asking students to consider voc ational careers onl y is to lower expectations for them ✓ People wi th college and graduate degrees generally earn more than those without them, and face lower ris ks of unemployment – look at where are ar e now with this pandemic! ✓ College isn ’t all about the degree – it’s about been expose d to new ideas, people and things in ways that help us have fuller lives. ✓ A degree p repare s you for a career, which i s differ ent than a job. Ultimately, your paper needs to show why your pursu it of a college degree is worth the effo rt! You will show this with the research you are doing, incl uding what BMCC has to offer . ENG 100.5 BMCC Prof Lam 2 1. Wa nt to know how to c reate an MLA citation? FOL LOW THIS MODEL Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets County's Uninsured Patients." Washington Post , 24 May 2007, p. LZ01 . For this article you should have: Steinberg, Jacques. “Plan B: Ski p College ” New York Times, 15 , May 2010 . 2. How do you create a citation for your Occupat ional Ou tlook H andbo ok entry? Easy! Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will see a sample citation. You copy and paste it! That ’s it. It should l ook like this: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handboo k, Firefighters , on the Internet at https://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective - service/firefighters.htm (visited March 20, 202 0).