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EGL -1010 Composition: Expository Writing - Prince Georges Community College
Subject/Topic: This is a thesis-driven argumentative research paper. The prompt for this assignment is a separate document.
Argument needs to use Toulmin Model structure.
Purpose: To make an original argument and support it with evidence.
The course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
1. Write informative, analytical, and argumentative essays that demonstrate the student's ability to
a. Formulate a restricted, unified and precise thesis statement;
b. Organize essay content into introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs;
c. Compose restricted, unified, and precise topic sentences for paragraphs;
d. Construct and organize unified, coherent, and well-developed paragraphs;
e. Apply grammar and usage rules correctly;
f. Develop clear, concise sentences.
2. Write research-based essays using secondary sources, successfully demonstrating the characteristics listed in Course Outcome 1.
3. Demonstrate the ability to use the library and online resources to locate and evaluate material relevant to specific topic:
a. Record notes in sufficient detail and with accurate citations;
b. Synthesize several different sources into an essay to support its thesis;
c. Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of plagiarism by correctly summarizing, quoting, paraphrasing, citing, and acknowledging sources through in-text parenthetical and end-of-text bibliographic documentation according to MLA, APA, or Chicago format.
Prompt #1: Kahler v. Kansas - Issue: Whether the Eighth and 14th Amendments permit a state to abolish the insanity defense.
Prompt #2: New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, New York - Issue: Whether New York City's ban on transporting a licensed, locked and unloaded handgun to a home or shooting range outside city limits is consistent with the Second Amendment, the commerce clause and the constitutional right to travel.
Prompt #3: Kansas v. Glover - Issue: Whether, for purposes of an investigative stop under the Fourth Amendment, it is reasonable for an officer to suspect that the registered owner of a vehicle is the one driving the vehicle absent any information to the contrary.
Prompt #4: Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue - Issue: Whether it violates the religion clauses or the equal protection clause of the United States Constitution to invalidate a generally available and religiously neutral student-aid program simply because the program affords students the choice of attending religious schools.
Prompt #5: R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Issue: Whether Title VII prohibits discrimination against transgender people based on (1) their status as transgender or (2) sex stereotyping under Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins. AND Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia - Issue: Whether discrimination against an employee because of sexual orientation constitutes prohibited employment discrimination "because of . . . sex" within the meaning of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2.
Prompt #6: United States Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association - Issue: Whether the United States Forest Service has the authority to grant rights-of-way under the Mineral Leasing Act through lands traversed by the Appalachian Trail within national forests.
Prompt #7: Allen v. Cooper - Issue: Whether Congress validly abrogated state sovereign immunity via the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act in providing remedies for authors of original expression whose federal copyrights are infringed by states.
Attachment:- Research Paper.rar