How can you evaluate your personal history

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As always, any instances of plagiarism in any part of the paper will result in a 0 for the assignment (and will be reported to the Office of Student Conduct and Ethical Development). If you use examples or information from another source (like a website explaining the sociological imagination), you must cite that source, and if you use the exact words from another source, you must put them in quotation marks (in addition to providing a citation).

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For this assignment, you will write a four-page (approximately) essay on C. Wright Mills's concept, "the sociological imagination." There will be two main components to this essay. First, you must clearly, thoroughly, and accurately explain what Mills means by "the sociological imagination." Write this explanation for someone who hasn't read Mills's original piece.

Second, use one or more examples from your own life to illustrate the concept. How can you evaluate your personal history from a sociological perspective? How might your personal "troubles" be related to public "issues"? How has your own "biography" been affected by wider social/historical patterns? You may choose to approach this task by concentrating on one aspect of your life; for instance, by writing about your educational experiences or your family life. Alternatively, you may choose to draw examples from several different aspects of your life.

• How well you explain what Mills meant by "the sociological imagination";
• How well you demonstrate the connections between biography and history and troubles and issues in your own life;
• The overall quality of writing, with particular attention paid to writing skills covered in Module Three; and
• Your adherence to basic guidelines established on this prompt, on the syllabus, in the module content, and in Chapter 2 of A Sociology Writer's Guide.

• Determine the primary objectives and requirements of an assignment prompt
• Exercise strategies for effective reading of challenging texts
• Correctly describe and apply the ideas from a classic sociological text
• Identify and apply standards for ethical use of others' work (citations and references)
• Identify and apply the sociological standards for formatting of citations and references (ASA rules)
• Apply strategies for effective paragraph structure and development
• Apply strategies for integrating quotes in a manner that is grammatically correct and fluid
• Clearly and accurately summarize others' work
• Apply steps in the writing process, including pre-writing, planning, drafting, and responding to feedback
• Use appropriate strategies for organized and developed writing
• Evaluate and apply techniques for effectively appealing to an audience of readers
• Write an academic essay which applies all of the skills above

Learning Objectives

• Produce discipline-specific written work that demonstrates upper-division proficiency in language use, grammar, and clarity of expression
• Explain, analyze, develop, and criticize ideas effectively, including ideas encountered in multiple readings and expressed in different forms of discourse
• Organize and develop essays for both professional and general audiences
• Organize and develop essays and documents according to appropriate editorial and citation standards

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10/1/2020 2:14:41 AM

Please make sure there is no outside sources, all the quotes and citations . Also pease read through the criteria as well since it has most of the information you would need for this essay. All citations and references should be that of ASA rules.

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