English 2 Assignment

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 in Third Person Point of View in a 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 created 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 three sources are required. 

TOPIC SELECTIONS 

Education Is education a right or a privilege?

These are general topics meant to inspire further exploration and discovery of a narrower subject for your paper.  Your essay should be persuasive and explore a debatable idea. See Idea Generators below and how the general topic of education as a right or privilege is narrowed to an examination of integration.  Should integration necessarily translate into concrete gains like greater achievement for all students? If so, is mixing students by race the most effective mechanism for attaining it?

RECOMMENDED READINGS

Education: Is education a right or a privilege?  Overview:  pages 180 – 181

Essays:  The Next Kind of Integration,  Emily Bazelton, pages 201-211

Two Cheers for Brown v. Board of Education; Clayborne Carson, pages 219- 225