Mass Incarceration (Final essay)
The issue that I chose to write my final essay about is mass incarceration.
Prompt: Developing Solutions
Consider several possible solutions to problems related to the issue (mass incarceration) you have been researching. You must:
1. State what they are, clearly and thoroughly, and identify the main characteristics of both the problems and their potential solutions
2. Analyze and evaluate each one.
Ultimately, your argument that emerges should include a discussion of the solution you have chosen—given the options you outline in your essay—that is the most important or pressing, and why.
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The following is very important:
~Please follow the essay visual map I have attached to write this paper.~
~One of my 6 sources must be from the film “13th” by Ava DuVernay.~
~ I have attached another source I would like used in the essay, “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander~
Length: 6-8 pages
Research: 6-8 sources, containing a variety of types and perspectives, that pass the CRAP Test. Note: all sources used in the body of the essay must also be cited in the MLA-formatted Works Cited page
Format: MLA (Times New Roman, double-spaced, 12-point font, 1” margins)
~Please follow the essay visual map I have attached to write this paper.~
I have also pasted it below.
ESSAY VISUAL MAP
Introductory Paragraph
Background/Topic:
Essay Topic
Thesis Statement:
Overall Argument
How/Plan:
The plan of how the writer will prove her argument; The ways in which we see the argument playing out. Can also be a list of the body paragraph claims
1.
2.
3.
transition
Body Paragraph #1
Claim #1:
First sub-argument that supports the thesis
Evidence:
e.g., quotes/summary, world experience, information from secondary sources, etc.
Purpose/Analysis:
The “So what?” What does the relationship between claim and evidence show the reader? What is at stake? What are the implications?
transition
Body Paragraph #2
Claim #2:
Evidence:
Analysis:
Transition
Body Paragraph #3 transition
Claim #3:
(possible counter-arguments/expansion of ideas from previous paragraphs?)
Evidence:
Analysis:
transition
Body Paragraph #4
Claim #4:
Evidence:
Analysis:
transition (if necessary)
Conclusion
Wrap Up:
Wrap up the essay, addressing any “loose ends” or unfinished thoughts
Lasting Impression:
Such as—a witty, final commentary; a rhetorical question; an interesting fact; a warning; an ultimate implication; etc.
NOTE:
· Sentences from the essay may be in a different order than they are in the visual map
· The paragraphs may also be in differing order (e.g., clustering all the favoring arguments together and clustering all the counter-arguments together, or alternating each paragraph between favoring and counter-arguments).
