"For Teacher Hyranks Only"

this is the book:  Muller, G. H. (2014). The McGraw-Hill reader: Issues across disciplines (12th ed.). New York, NY:  McGraw-Hill Education.  ISBN: 9781260114829

Choosing a Topic for your Final Critical Essay:

Reading and Writing Persuasion

Each week, we will work toward the development of the Final Critical Essay. This will be a persuasive essay of 1200 words based on one of the following topics inspired by readings in our textbook, The McGraw-Hill Reader.  For your first post, choose one of the following topics and read the Chapter Introduction and one of the suggested essays.  Choose a relevant or provocative quotation from the essay you have chosen.  Compose a working thesis statement, and complete the following for your first discussion post:

• Topic Choice
• Working thesis
• One paragraph in which you reflect on the topic and your position
• A relevant quotation from the essay correctly cited in APA. Please place the quotation in the paragraph you compose. 
• Initial post should be 300 words.

This is the topic that I chose

Essays for Approved Topics

Education: Is education a privilege for college athletes?  Overview:  pp. 180-181

Essays: "What College Can Mean to the Other America," Mike Rose,  pp. 194-197

The discussion will be based on the persuasive essay  final  

CRITICAL ANALYSIS PAPER

For this assignment, you will write a 1200-word critical analysis based on one of the following topics inspired by readings in our textbook, The McGraw-Hill Reader.  The paper will include quoting the text, as well as additional research from the library database or another approved and reliable source documented correctly in proper APA format.  This paper requires writing using Third Person Point of View and the persuasive mode.

The abstract should be 100 words and the body (excluding the cover page and reference page) of the paper should be 1000 words. Be sure to use the template for a research paper that you create in Week One, and provide direct support from your sources.  It would be best to use the readings from your textbook, but other reliable sources should also be used. At least four sources are required. Choose ONE of the following topics:Final Critical Essay

CRITICAL ANALYSIS PAPER

For this assignment, you will write a 1200-word critical analysis based on one of the following topics inspired by readings in our textbook, The McGraw-Hill Reader.  The paper will include quoting the text, as well as additional research from the library database or another approved and reliable source documented correctly in proper APA format.  This paper requires writing using Third Person Point of View and the persuasive mode.

The abstract should be 100 words and the body (excluding the cover page and reference page) of the paper should be 1000 words. Be sure to use the template for a research paper that you create in Week One, and provide direct support from your sources.  It would be best to use the readings from your textbook, but other reliable sources should also be used. At least four sources are required. Choose ONE of the following topics: