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Analyzing Community Issues from Preface

The document provides instructions for a 4-page paper analyzing an issue from the Preface first-year reading book. Students are asked to narrowly focus on a specific element of the book, and analyze how the issue affects society by considering benefits, historical and social influences, and potential dangers over time and in different communities.

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Analyzing Community Issues from Preface

The document provides instructions for a 4-page paper analyzing an issue from the Preface first-year reading book. Students are asked to narrowly focus on a specific element of the book, and analyze how the issue affects society by considering benefits, historical and social influences, and potential dangers over time and in different communities.

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Building upon the themes of the Preface first-year reading and writing book, offer an analysis of

how that issue affects you, your community, or society more broadly. Your community may be
as small or as large as you would like to imagine it.
In a four-page paper written for an academic audience, describe and analyze a particular issue
from the Preface book that interests you. Be sure to narrow down your issue to a very specific
element of the Preface book rather than attempting to tackle a very broad, general topic. Your
course discussions about the book should help you to focus in on narrow, particular questions,
issues, and themes.
In the paper, you may compare the effects of that issue over time or in different places. Or you
may contrast the way that issue affects some parts of your community, but not others. Your
purpose is to offer your readers a new understanding of how that issue works in your community
and why it works that way. In this analytical argument, your claim may be any combination of
cause, effect, and/or value. Review the definitions of claim in the Composition Glossary for more
ideas.
HOW TO WRITE:
● Give a clear and brief description of the issue you are exploring (more in the genre of
definition).
● Then analyze that issue to determine how and why society values or does not value that
issue.
● What benefits do people gain as a result of that issue? Consider: have those benefits
changed over time, making them more or less powerful or more or less visible?
● Are there historical, economic, social, religious, or other reasons for the influence of that
issue? Do any of our course readings help you to explain those possible causes?
● What are the perils or dangers caused by that issue? What are the perils for the people
in power? What are the perils for those out of power? Have those effects changed over
time? Do those effects vary in different places?
● In your conclusion, you may even wish to consider whether or not society should do
something about this issue?
Support your argument with evidence in the form of examples from popular culture or personal
experience, observations from history or contemporary culture, o

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