We are starting UNIT 2 this week (Oct. 18 & Oct. 20). The Unit 2 paper is due on November 15th. It counts for 20% of your course grade.
For the Unit 2 paper, you will write an Op-Ed article, an opinion piece. In this paper you’ll argue a position on a topic of your choosing.
Create a free Academic Pass account for free digital access the New York Times with your City Tech email.
Once you have your academic pass account to NYTimes.com:
- use the Search tool to find OPINION articles on ANY topics that you are interested in, academic or not.
- select a Date Range to make sure the article is relatively current (e.g. one month, one year, one week) and
- select the Opinion Section to make sure that it is an opinion article.
This Week’s Readings:
- Unit 2 Assignment Guidelines
- Purdue OWL, “Argumentative Essays”
- Examples of Op-Ed/Opinion articles
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