Paper #2—“Education and You”—McFarland—Chabot—Fall 2013

For this paper, you will be asked to build an argument/discussion in which you consider your attitudes/philosophy in light of the concept of Education. You have been--and will be--exploring your point of view about Education in series of blog posts. Most of the posts have been in response to a written prompt or video, though some posts may be responses to a prompt that you came up with.

Now you will be asked to go back and read through and think about your posts—you may also want to re-look at the video prompts—and see if you can begin to shape a coherent discussion that links these different posts into a single essay that situates you inside of Education—what value does it have for you, what challenges do you face, what strategies do you employ. The paper as well will be exploring your POV about Education itself—its value, its challenges, its role in our society.

As you build this essay you will be drawing from 3 sources of writing: 1) the blog posts you have already created…2) new writing you do to flesh out your ideas…3) transitional phrases and paragraphs you create to stitch together your paper’s flow/argument.

You will want to really think about how you want to organize the paper. You will have a LOT of material to draw from if you have been doing all the posts and writing a lot inside each post.

You must integrate Mike Rose’s Why School? into this paper; quotes from the book need to be included in your paper, as well as a consideration of concepts that are found in the book.

You must average a minimum of 1-2 short quotes per paragraph. You should include more than one quote per paragraph whenever possible. Quote length in a paper of this length should be no more than 1-2 lines. Remember that the video prompts you have watched are a great source of quote support.

The essay’s page minimum is 6 full pages…(BNDJTM…)

Paragraph topic sentences should start with concepts. Paragraph topic sentences should also feature KEYWORDS, which are taken from the questions/prompts that you have been exploring.

The paper is due _________. First draft is due _______ 
(Of course, before the "first draft" date, you will be bringing in and sharing paragraphs from your paper....)

Best of Luck!!