The essay will be over the goods and bads/rights and wrongs of people using fracking to get oil. Your mission is to explore and evaluate you research topic and stance. In this paper you have two options pursue regarding your research topic. (1) develop criteria to evaluate a controversial topic – the X factor in the equation X is a (good or bad) Y. in other words one option is to develop definitional criteria to evaluate something like a controversial rock star, a controversial government policy, or a controversial advertisement.
2. The second option is to explore the ethical argument that evaluates or determines whether some X (action, policy, decision) is right or wrong about your research topic.

Use pathos ethos and logos