Identify a cluster of three or four readings about a topic that interests you. For example, choose related readings from this book or from other readings assigned in your class, or choose several selections from your broader reading. Read (or reread) the selections, considering how each supports, challenges, or deepens your understanding of the topic.
Based on the information you’ve gathered from your reading, develop an original position about the topic that you’d like to share with an audience of college readers. Support your position—your working thesis—by quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing the information in the readings as evidence. Be sure to synthesize that information with your own ideas. Present information from sources clearly, and credit them appropriately using MLA style.
