Argument Essay

Your essay assignment is:

Argument (Social Media)

The instructions for your Argument (social media) essay can also be found in the last section in the Argument (social media) Information Sway.

Topic

For the social media argument essay, you are to identify and argue the point where an employer’s rights should end to regulate or dictate what an employee posts on his/her personal social media account.

Formatting

Standard MLA formatting with a four-line heading, a centered title, and a header.

Times New Roman
Size 12
Consistently double spaced

Point of View

You must write using third person, objective point of view. You may not use first person (I, me, we, our) or second person (you) in this paper, unless it is within a quote.

Audience

Your audience are people in your anticipated career path.

Word Count

Remain within the 1300-1600 word count. (Your heading, header, and works cited information are excluded from your word count, according to the grading rubric.)

Thesis

Your thesis statement should include the word “should.”

The core of your thesis statement should answer: Where should an employer’s right end to regulate what an employee posts on his/her personal social media site?

Content

Your essay must have a clearly defined and established argument. Take a position.

A good argument will acknowledge (concede or refute) counterarguments.

Sources

This assignment does require research; therefore, you must have in-text citations and a works cited page in your essay.

You must utilize and correctly cite information from one of the articles posted in this module.
You must utilize and correctly cite information from two other sources of your choice.

Since you must use at least three sources, you should have at least three sources listed alphabetically on your works cited page and you should have at least three different in-text citations in your essay.