WLAC The Hoarding End Cost & Transformation of The American Dream Discussion

Your goal for this essay is the elegant integration of source material to support your original ideas and assertions on the general topic of the American Dream. Your challenge will be to maintain an objective argument and support your ideas with credible sources that is recent within the past year. For this essay only I have included sources that you are encouraged to use.

Step 1: Review The American Dream Brainstorm and Pre-write (50).

You will come to find your interpretation of the phrase The American Dream as a result of thorough brainstorming.

Step 2: Read the following articles:

The Hoarding of the American Dream (Links to an external site.)

Your goal for this essay is the elegant integration of source material to support your original ideas and assertions on the general topic of the American Dream. Your challenge will be to maintain an objective argument and support your ideas with credible sources that is recent within the past year. For this essay only I have included sources that you are encouraged to use.
Step 1: Review The American Dream Brainstorm and Pre-write (50).
You will come to find your interpretation of the phrase The American Dream as a result of thorough brainstorming.
Step 2: Read the following articles:
The Hoarding of the American Dream (Links to an external site.)
Is This The End Of The American Dream? (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
The Cost of the American Dream (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
The Transformation of the ‘American Dream’ (Links to an external site.)
Take notes while you read, look for examples, concepts, or quotes that stand out for you. RESEARCH, RESEARCH, RESEARCH as much as possible. After reading all of the articles look at your notes. Has a theme emerged? Good! That might be your essay topic!
If a theme does not emerge, go back to Step 1.
Step 3: Explore your theme, wrangle it into a thesis statement and post it the thesis statement assignment, discussion.
Step 4: Write your essay! Plan your time so that you can write a rough draft, take a day away from it, then revise it into an excellent essay: 3-5 pages in length, error free, MLA format, properly formatted Works Cited page.
READ THIS CAREFULLY:Guidelines for essays:
Please underline your thesis statement or change it to red font.
All essays are research-based argument essays. Your job is to identify a viewpoint, find recent sources to support the viewpoint, and express the viewpoint objectively and specifically starting with a thesis statement and following with examples, details and specifics from sources and from your viewpoint that has resulted from reading a variety of recent sources.
As these are not narrative essays, the use of I statements and personal anecdotes are not appropriate.
Information in essays must be current. Sources must be recent.

Essays must be at least 3 full pages in length up to 5 full pages, not counting Works Cited page. (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

The Cost of the American Dream (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

The Transformation of the ‘American Dream’ (Links to an external site.)

Take notes while you read, look for examples, concepts, or quotes that stand out for you. RESEARCH, RESEARCH, RESEARCH as much as possible. After reading all of the articles look at your notes. Has a theme emerged? Good! That might be your essay topic!

If a theme does not emerge, go back to Step 1.

Step 3: Explore your theme, wrangle it into a thesis statement and post it the thesis statement assignment, discussion.

Step 4: Write your essay! Plan your time so that you can write a rough draft, take a day away from it, then revise it into an excellent essay: 3-5 pages in length, error free, MLA format, properly formatted Works Cited page.

READ THIS CAREFULLY:

Guidelines for essays:

Please underline your thesis statement or change it to red font.

All essays are research-based argument essays. Your job is to identify a viewpoint, find recent sources to support the viewpoint, and express the viewpoint objectively and specifically starting with a thesis statement and following with examples, details and specifics from sources and from your viewpoint that has resulted from reading a variety of recent sources.

As these are not narrative essays, the use of I statements and personal anecdotes are not appropriate.

Information in essays must be current. Sources must be recent.

Essays must be at least 3 full pages in length up to 5 full pages, not counting Works Cited page.