Essay One Assignment

Part One due: Wednesday, September 6th

Draft of Part Two due for in-class peer review:         Monday, September 25th

Bring THREE COPIES to class

Draft due BY EMAIL or on a CD: Wednesday, September 27th

Final packet due:            Friday, September 29th

PART ONE: In this essay, you will follow the models in your textbook on pages 22-26.  Rather than using the textbook’s prompt – about automobiles and fossil fuels – we will use a topic concerning the banning of cigarette smoking in public places.  Follow the guidelines for “Option 2” on page 22.  Then read the student’s sample essay (Brittany Tinker) on pages 23-24.  Use her essay only as a model. Continue to follow the guidelines on pages 25-26, for showing why this issue is problematic and significant.  Your essay should not answer a question; it should pose one.  Your question will be “should cigarette smoking be banned in all public places?”  Your essay will need to be three pages long.

PART TWO: Drawing upon the understanding you gained of the complexity of the “smoking in public places” issues from Part One, explore the problem further and make a claim. Your essay will develop into a modified “summary/strong response” essay, like the one you read in Chapter Six of Allyn and Bacon (written by Sean Barry, pg 130-132)). Using Barry’s essay as a model, and utilizing some of the information you gathered and perspectives you considered in Part One, pose a strong response to either a) Florence King’s essay “I’d Rather Smoke than Kiss” (AB pg. 142-147) or b) the advertisement “Welcome to Marlboro Country” by Adbusters.org (AB 148). Your new essay will need to be four to five pages long.