Your last essay is your ticket out of my class. It’s time to show the growth, skills, and knowledge you’ve achieved during this semester. Our current society faces numerous intense and drastic dilemmas—political upheaval, humanitarian crises, and economic instability are just the general umbrella terms which cover these issues. Ultimately, remember that all problems within societies originate within ourselves; the ways we, as individual humans, think and act determine how our world progresses or regresses.
Pick a topic of your choice and develop an argumentative thesis. Whatever topic you choose, your thesis must be argumentative in nature—put forth a claim that you must support with both evidence and rhetoric, persuasion and logic. This essay is the culmination of everything you have learned in this course. Showcase the argument strategies you’ve studied. Be critical and analytical about arguments which utilize inappropriate, invalid, or fallacious reasoning. Vary your argument with differing rhetorical approaches that are both affective and ethically appealing. This is not a time to qualify your ideas, equivocate sides, or defer to other claims of authority. This is the time to show off, respectfully and within reason.
Your one specific content stipulation: You must use Blink in some way, shape, or form, as a source in your essay.
In addition to Blink, you must use eight more credible outside sources. This makes a total of seven (7) sources minimum required for your final essay. This essay must be between 7-10 pages in length. Format your essay entirely in MLA, with appropriate Works Cited page and correct in-text citations.