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Let's Review Your Persuasion Paper Assignment
- Let's review your assignment (Source: Carlin, Persuasion Paper Assignment)
- State your claim/position (informed opinion on a topic.
- Support your claim with reasonable, factual arguments, citing specific evidence and examples.
- Balance your paper by addressing any potential counterarguments to your position.
- You are required to find and use a minimum of 3 current sources (no older than 2016) from library databases.
- You must include a MLA-style Works Cited page listing your sources.
- You can argue for or against the following topics:
- Censorship (of music, the Internet, news photos, television, etc.)
- Government-financed deep space exploration, including potential mining rights
- Guns in schools
- Should humans ever be allowed to be cloned?
- Should drones continue to be used to assassinate enemies in warfare?
- Should drones remain available to consumers?
- Should public college education be free?
- Should juveniles who murder be treated as adults?
- Should the government regulate unhealthy foods?
- Should the police be required to wear body cameras when on duty?
- Should the lobbying of members of Congress be abolished?
