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Paper #2: Analysis of a Topic
English 0802, Spring 2022
Requirements:
– Your paper must be 6-8 pages in length, not including your title page and Reference page
– You will have 6+ sources. You must cite at least (4) four Academic peer review sources
that you find on your own from the library, one of the class reading and an outside
source, if your wish, or 2 outside sources from the internet. This could be news articles,
opinion pieces, blogs, and/or videos.
– You must cite all sources properly using APA Style for in-text citation and Reference
page
Description:
Write a paper in which you research a topic of political satire and late-night show effects on the young generation
You should pick a topic that you want to find out more information and to report the
status of the topic right now, in spring 2021. You want to get an understanding of what
other scholars and/or experts are discussing, researching or theorizing about the topic.
You will then describe what research and writing exists about the topic and synthesize
multiple sources organizing the paper by common concepts, ideas and issues found in the
research.
The purpose of your paper will be to describe what research and writing exists about your topic,
to Another way to put this is that you’ll be describing and synthesizing the scholarly
conversation about your topic, which is a vital step in constructing academic arguments of your
own in the future and to:
1. Learn to do extensive research using the library databases.
2. Learn to critically evaluate and analyze research in your field.
3. Determine a course of action you might consider taking.
4. The best way to solve a problem.
5. Find gaps in current knowledge and inconsistencies in research.
6. Identifying people who are doing research in your field (a chance for networking with
those who could give your information and support).
7. Put your work in perspective (has someone already done this research? Can you add to
the research by providing new evidence?)
8. The creation of an idea that feeds off the research to write a longer more involved
informational or argumentative paper.
