Reference no: EM131901146
Assignment
Link to the article to be analyzed
1) Will limiting illegal immigration protect U.S. economic interests?
Follow the instructions below.
AUDIENCE and PURPOSE
• Who is your audience? Write your essay for a reader who is an educated adult who is not familiar with the issue and its opposing views.
• What is your purpose? To analyze a key difference between two opposing views on a single issue.
LENGHT and FORMAT
• How long should Essay 4 be? Essay 4 is made up of three paragraphs: two summaries and a thoroughly developed analysis paragraph that follows the MEAL plan and other closed-form prose conventions. Each of the summary paragraphs will be 100-150 words in length, considering the brevity of the source texts you are analyzing. Generally, an effective MEAL plan analysis paragraph will be 400-500 words long.
• How should you format your essay? For now, you only need to do the following:
o Indent the first line of each paragraph
o Use 11- to 12-point Times New Roman or Calibri font
o Double-space between lines
o Include a title that captures your main idea; center this title at the top of your essay
CONTENT
• What is required in your two summary paragraphs?
o Use attributive tags to attribute the ideas to the author:
- use the author's last name or he/she
- use precise signal verbs (see Step 4 in Lesson 1 for a list of signal verbs),
o Use transitions and other signposts to show the relationship between the ideas, capturing the structure and flow of the source's ideas,
o Represent the source's ideas accurately, fairly, objectively, and comprehensively yet concisely,
o And use quotations sparingly, if at all.
• What is required in the body paragraph?
o Apply the MEAL Plan paragraphing strategy for effective development and structure
- It must present one main idea that...
- Presents one significant or key difference between the opposing views
- Announces the importance of this difference
- It must present evidence from both sources that difference exists (this could be one or more quotations)
- It must sufficiently analyze the examples to make the case for your main idea: that difference is important and how it is important to the discussion
o Apply the the Old/New Contract strategy for effective organization.