For this paper you will select one essay from TSIS Chapter 17 “Are We in a Race against the Machine,” and you will find two database articles to explain and support how your position is (even slightly) different from the one presented in the essay.

You may assume your reader is familiar with the TSIS essay, but NOT the database articles. For the articles you will have to practice helping your reader understand what “they say”, but the majority of the paper is dedicated to explaining and supporting what “you say”.

Your thesis must be argumentative, not a statement of fact. The rest of your essay will provide the evidence, explanation and support to persuade your reader of the validity of your thesis. Use one of these templates– Disagreeing, with Reasons (769), Agreeing—with a Difference (770), and Agreeing and Disagreeing Simultaneously (770-1)– for your thesis statement. Highlight the thesis statement.

You must include at least one “So What?” or “Who Cares?” statement in the conclusion (see TSIS 774-775, Indicating Who Cares & Establishing Why Your Claims Matter). You may, of course, include such statements throughout the paper. Highlight your “So What?” or “Who Cares?” statement

Your works cited page will have at least three entries: the TSIS essay and at least 2 articles from the library’s databases. Make sure to follow MLA format for the correct type of entry, use hanging indent, and alphabetize the entries.

Each body paragraph must have a transition and introduction as well as support that is properly introduced, integrated and interpreted. Transitions are smoother at the beginning of the new idea than at the end of the old.